Our first honey harvest since 2020 (June 29, 2024)

We now have eight hives, as compared to two back in 2020. We've let the bees keep their honey in the intervening years, to help them survive our long, hot summers. But this year, we decided six of the hives could spare one or two frames of their 16-24 frames per hive. Why are the frames inside tightly tied trash bags? Because they are covered with bees that were determined to save their honey from us.

Papa opened the trash bags inside the closed greenhouse. No way could we open them in the house!

 Papa showed me one of the frames, covered in hundreds of bees. He shook them off before taking the frame inside.