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Harvesting 68kg of honey - full process from beehive to jars + candle making
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Harvesting 68kg of honey - full process from beehive to jars + candle making
  • Published_at:2023-08-15
  • Category:People & Blogs
  • Channel:Just Alex
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  • description: The honey harvest is the most rewarding part of beekeeping. Honey and wax are amazing natural products that we can harvest from bees and this video explains the whole process from taking the honey off the beehives to jarring and selling the honey to local customers. I also made a few candles which smell amazing! Check out my Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alex_smith1809/ Support the Just Alex Channel on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/justalexsmith TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@justalexsmith Business enquiries - alexfordhamsmith@gmail.com 00:00 Intro 00:41 Adding honey boxes 03:02 Removing bees from supers 08:05 Cleaning kitchen and equipment 09:10 Creating honey jar labels 12:49 Taking honey boxes off the hives 15:26 Extracting honey 18:46 How do bees make honey? 19:24 More honey extracting 25:46 Taking honey samples to honey monitoring scheme 28:37 Putting honey boxes back on hives 29:00 Jarring honey 31:40 Melting wax 33:36 Attaching honey jar labels 36:33 How I'm selling my honey 37:57 Making candles 39:56 Selling my honey 45:11 Protecting honey frames from wax moth 46:31 Costs of beekeeping and income from honey sales
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