A friend of a friend builds stuff to sell out of found material. OK - junk. Some time back, while cleaning up around his place, he went to move an old speaker box he had sitting around. You can see it in the picture. That's it standing by the two metal buckets. It stands about three feet tall and is about one foot wide by one foot deep.It turns out it didn't take long for out friend of a friend to look at that speaker box.
Here's why:
This is the speaker box laying on its side, with one of the side boards removed. That's the toe of my size 12 at the bottom of the picture, so that should give you some idea of scale. The speaker box is resting inside a capture box I built out of plywood and framing lumber we had laying around.Early last Friday morning, KL and I suited up and grabbed up this feral hive. We put the capture box in the back of the TrailBlazer and headed home. Once home, we cut the comb into chunks that would fit into the hive frames. We held them in place with rubber bands.
All to get this:
This chunk of honeycomb is just a small sample of what we should have this fall if our bees thrive.
Yes it tastes really good. No one has ever added high fructose corn syrup to it.
If you're wondering, KL puts the size of the hive at 35,000 bees. I can't count them like she does. She says she only counts every other bee, then multiplies by 2.
