Photo Gallery

Each frame starts here at the decapper, where the wax cap that covers all the comb is removed. Now the honey in each comb center can drip out!

These frames are waiting to go into the extractor. What honey drips out here, along with the wax we removed in the decapping process, will be used for other purposes. We don't waste any of our bees hard work!

Now we've loaded up some of those frames into the extractor. This machine collects honey in a way that protects the wax comb structure.

Notice, on the right side of the picture, how much honey you can see in this hive frame. Once the extractor is loaded with frames we can turn it on and spin all the honey out!

This machine acts as a centrifuge, spinning the frames at a high speed which pulls all of the delicious honey out of the decapped comb. The honey will start to drain to the bottom, from where it is pumped into storage containers.

As you can see here on the right again, the lighter color within the frames means that there is very little honey left inside! These frames will go back into the hives so our bees can resuse them and start to store more honey for us.

Notice how some of our hives are taller than others? Those have "Supers" on them, which are boxes containing frames that are only used for honey. The queen bee is kept towards the bottom of the beehive by mesh that only worker bees are able to get through - this keeps the bees focused on honey production.

We keep our hives close to each other, but the bees are able to tell which hive is theirs when they return from gathering nectar!

This is our demo hive! A single frame with clear side panels sits above the main hive. Come visit us at our next show and see some bees in action!