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Loading ...Harvest Time at the Red Fork Bee Ranch
A look at the process of harvesting, extracting, and bottling honey on a small scale. Red Fork Bee Ranch is a small (currently four-hive) beekeeping operation headquartered just off Route 66 in southwest Tulsa’s historic Red Fork community. We have been keeping bees for about five years. We currently have four hives — two on-site and two at organic farms in the Bristow area — with plans to add two to three hives per year until we can produce enough honey to quit our full-time jobs and spend all day with our bees.
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I think the filter is shown briefly in the video. The honey is drained from the extractor after every couple of frames. It flows into a five-gallon bucket that has a removable filter in the top to strain out the cappings, which are then rendered for use in lip gloss or other projects requiring pure beeswax. We generally only filter the honey once, as it flows into the bucket, because excessive filtration is unnecessary.
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Thanks for taking the time to share.I am very interested in beekeeping and hope to try it someday. Great video and thanks again.
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It’s a Beemax hive. Dadant sells them. They’re made of Styrofoam. We like them because they keep the bees warmer in the winter and cooler in the summer.
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Is that a plastic hive?
It looked white inside.
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