Even though it was a town work day, farming work was done today. Today, Joanne extracted the honey from the first-year hives.

Here’s a section of a frame of honey still in the comb.

The frames go in the extractor.

The extractor gets spun around manually to spin the honey out – think a giant salad spinner or a very slow autoclave for the scientists out there.

Finally, the pot of honey – kind of like making something from nothing – like fruits from sunlight.