The honey was left to settle in buckets over night. The idea being that bubbles will rise to the top and debris to the bottom. The former can be problematic since too many small bubbles in the bottles will cause unsightly foam at the top of the bottle. I used a bucket with a ‘gate’, a spout of sorts at the bottom of the bucket than can be opened and closed, to dispense the honey into bottles.
As you can see, I was helped by my assistant.
I went for a walk with my mother in order to try to get my assistant to take a nap in her stroller. We noticed a large patch of a bamboo like plant with white spikes of flowers that were covered in bees. We were intrigued as to what this nectar source was.
A google search for “bamboo like plant with white flower stalks” revealed to me what some of you might already have realized, it was a patch of Japanese Knotweed, one of the most invasive species in the world that has been causing problems throughout Vermont’s water ways. But, for beekeepers it is supposed to make a very nice honey, so ‘yeah’?
And at the end of the day we had the fruits of a year’s work:
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