How to Harvest Honey at Home

Learn how to harvest honey at home, including removing honey supers from hives, how to extract honey using an extractor, and storing honey long-term. I find that beekeeping is rewarding on so many levels — and one of the more tangible rewards is honey. Thanks to the warm weather and plentiful rain, the bees in our 18-hive apiary have been filling up our honey supers almost as fast as we can put them on! A few months ago, we started adding honey supers to our strongest hives. As the spring dandelions and maple trees bloom, the bees start to make their way out of the hive in search of nectar.