Spinning Honey

This past Saturday, some Daisies were able to join our family in spinning honey from a beehive that we keep on a second floor porch. Ordinarily we wouldn't spin our honey so early in spring, but we were joined by a film crew making a documentary on urban beekeeping and they wanted some interesting footage.

Everyone got a turn scraping off the wax caps of the honeycomb to reveal the honey.

The big yellow cylinder is the honey extractor. The newly uncapped frames are placed inside and then someone strong turns the crank which rotates them at high speed. The honey flies out and falls to the bottom of the extractor. Open the spigot, honey pours out.

Tasted delicious!