🐝💗Our Backyard Beekeeping Journey!💗🐝

[drstratton]

Our honey extraction day keeps evolving. We only had about 3 frames of mixed honey and none without the buckwheat in it. I have a feeling we will just combine it with the buckwheat. We do not like buckwheat...lol

Next year, we will pull the supers off before the buckwheat blooms and just let the bees fill their deep boxes with it. That will mean less feeding in the fall. I hope that the Bee Plant, Flax, Malva, sweet clover and other desirable plants will provide lots of nectar before that happens. Of course we still need to get those planted. Too many things going on. Some self inflicted, most not...lol

 

[farmerjan]

That's a shame, I love buckwheat pancakes and we make a buckwheat pound cake that is to die for... maybe pm me and I could do a buckwheat honey purchase??? Never seen it around here.... Maybe I would hate the honey flavor but that seems like a stretch...

 

[drstratton]

That's a shame, I love buckwheat pancakes and we make a buckwheat pound cake that is to die for... maybe pm me and I could do a buckwheat honey purchase??? Never seen it around here.... Maybe I would hate the honey flavor but that seems like a stretch...

I wouldn't sell you any, but I'd be happy to send you some.
I don't mind buckwheat pancakes, but the honey is a whole different taste. Some people like it, sadly we don't. It's supposed to be very healthy for you, so I will use some of it, maybe I'll develop a taste for it.

 

[fuzzi]

I wouldn't sell you any, but I'd be happy to send you some.
I don't mind buckwheat pancakes, but the honey is a whole different taste. Some people like it, sadly we don't. It's supposed to be very healthy for you, so I will use some of it, maybe I'll develop a taste for it.

How much to ship some? I'd like to try it.

 

[drstratton]

How much to ship some? I'd like to try it.

I won't know until I try to ship it. I'll send you a message.

If anyone else is interested, send me a message.

 

[drstratton]

This picture shows the difference in color.

You can see on the edges the first honey we extracted today, it turned out much better than I anticipated. Buckwheat is quite dark.

 

[drstratton]

Waiting for the last 4 frames to finish in the extractor.


Couldn't pass this one up.
This is me...I confess!

 

[drstratton]

I was able to pull pictures together tonight.

Buckwheat. It's very dark, smells and tastes very strong. Not my favorite honey. We extracted about 7g of this and a little over 3 quarts of a lighter mix, had some buckwheat in the frames.

Looks like molasses.

Left to right.
1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th extraction. It just kept getting darker.

The first extraction is mostly from flowers, very mild, not overly sweet.

I think the darker color in the 2nd extraction could have been from our Mimosa tree & the Russian Olive trees, caramel flavor and sweeter than the 1st.

3rd, was the mix of summer foraging and some buckwheat on the same frames, slight buckwheat taste, but I can easily eat this one.

4th, buckwheat, again, not my favorite.

 

[Mini Horses]

Sure looks pretty

I remember having buckwheat pancakes with my paternal grandparents. Apparently my mom wasn't a fan as well only ever had them at home by special request from my dad If my mom didn't like it, you never got it plated at home....spaghetti was another.

 

[Baymule]

Your buckwheat honey reminds me of a local beekeeper in Livingston, Tx that has a huge operation. His honey is dark. It mainly comes from the Chinese tallow trees. Those are invasive, everybody hates them, they are the weeds of the tree world. Cut them down, they sprout back out. Poison the stump and new sprouts will come up from the roots yards away. I have some on my place and they are about to get cut. Next spring when they sprout back out, I will spray them. If my sheep could get to them, they would eat the new sprouts, but they are in the unfenced back field.

I had to rant about those damned Chinese tallow trees, AKA Tala trees and a lot of cuss words added. The honey is delicious! Or maybe thousands of people just have no taste. I dunno.