When the honey in the hive is capped and ripe, below 18% moisture it can be harvested. The super (the box where the bees store their honey) is cleared of bees then removed from the hive. On a productive hive there could be 3 plus supers above the brood box. They are then taken to the Granary for extraction. The frames are removed from the super and the wax capping removed to allow the honey to be extracted. The frames are then put into the extractor and the honey is spun out by centrifugal forceThe honey is then drained from the extractor, filtered into air tight buckets for storage.When honey is ready to be sold it is weighed into jars from the bucket.
Olmstead Honey 