End of the season

We are learning about the ways of bees all the time. I thought that our bees would continue building comb and adding honey till we harvested in the fall, but I just learned that the season is over. That’s it for the summer. Since we started from nucs, and late i the season, we will not harvest anything from our Yashtresh hine and will harvest a few frames from our hive # 1 in Beit Gamliel.

I went down to Nir Galim today and bought a “bee brush”. A bee brush is just a long brush with a few rows of long synthetic bristles that is used to brush off the bees in the super when we take the honey. Since we do not have a spinner to remove the honeyy we will need to find someone who will spin the few frames for us. We are hoping to harvest about 2-4 kilos of honey. I also bought some very small jars today to accomodate our very small harvest.