{"id":365,"date":"2016-07-26T21:11:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T21:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/?p=365"},"modified":"2016-07-26T21:11:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T21:11:55","slug":"2016-honey-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"2016 Honey Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-caption {padding:2px;}<\/style>\n<p>Lots of people are asking &#8211; when will there be honey for sale?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_366\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAM_9712.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"size-large wp-image-366\" alt=\"Honey Harvest\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAM_9712-800x600.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Checking frames are capped and ready for harvesting<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a funny year. Our colonies are generally strong, and there&#8217;s been a reasonably good nectar flow, but the challenge has been the weather. When the bees store nectar in the hive, it has to &#8220;ripen&#8221; into honey. Primarily this involves the reduction in water content, but with a very wet June the humidity has meant the ripening process has taken a long time. Often, just as honey was nearly ready, we&#8217;d have a few rainy days and the bees would have no option but to consume the honey they&#8217;d put away for, well, a rainy day.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent hot spell, however, stores are building up and in the past couple of days we&#8217;ve taken off and extracted the first full &#8220;supers&#8221; of honey. There are plenty more to come but with finite resources (including time and energy!) we can only take off one super at a time and will wait until most are extracted before we begin the bottling process.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_369\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/uncapping.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-369 \" alt=\"Uncapping a frame\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/uncapping-225x300.png\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncapping a frame prior to extraction<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_368\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAM_9714.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-368 \" alt=\"Loading the extractor\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SAM_9714-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One frame loaded into the extractor. A further 3 frames will be added before the honey is spun out<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So there&#8217;s good news and bad &#8211; good that at last the harvest is about ready, but there will still be two or three weeks before we can once again put up the &#8220;Honey for Sale&#8221; sign again. <\/p>\n<p>Be assured that as soon as we have honey to sell, we&#8217;ll also be posting here and on twitter, so watch this space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people are asking &#8211; when will there be honey for sale? It&#8217;s been a funny year. Our colonies are generally strong, and there&#8217;s been a reasonably good nectar flow, but the challenge has been the weather. When the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/?p=365\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nascotwoodbees.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}