Its been a while since my last post, this was due to our broadband being down. So I’ve got lots to catch up on. Expect a few posts in rapid succession.
Last month, we extracted the honey from the bee hives. I took photos at each stage:
First make the bees sleepy 
Expert Beekeeper pride 
The combs in the hives 
The combs are heavy 
Scraping the wax caps 
Keep the wax for candles 
Into the extractor
Load up with combs 
Expert forester lends his strength 
Draining honey from the wax 
The honey extracted 
Filtered and drained 
Farm produce! 
The combs are put outside for the bees to clean
Bees cleaning the combs 
Back in the hive for winter
The Geordie Smallholder 