Harvest time for us and the bees (Sunday, June 29, 2025)

Tomatoes! Peppers! Okra! Martin says true Southern girls make fried okra. I can fry it, but the batter always falls off. So maybe I'm faux Southern? We've discovered that sliced raw okra is delicious on salads. We're also pickling some. But for some reason, pickling brings out okra slime in long strings, like strings of cheese on pizza.

We could have taken the leftover comb back to our hives. But we decided to share some of it with the neighborhood bees. Thousands of bees collected wax for several days.

A lot of honey was still in the combs. We melted them. The honey settled to the bottom, the wax rose to the top.

We gleaned 32 ounces of honey from the melted combs.

The 5-gallon bucket is nearly full!