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And this is it...Comb Honey!

This photo shows a fully drawn
and capped honey comb.

This is what we are all after...fully capped combs of honey. This comb shows the small amount of attachment of the comb to the sides of my straight-sided tbh's. I don't find it a problem at all. This comb can be cut up and sold as sections of comb honey, can be cut into strips for use in jars as chunk honey. It seems a shame to break it up and press the honey out, but I do it. The honey tastes very good since it hasn't been heated or subjected to a lot of contact with air as in centrifuging with conventional extractors. The wax is from virgin comb and is beautiful...about like cappings.

I may try marketing some of the bars of comb honey like this directly from the hive. Customers would come to my beeyard and I would at that time pull a bar directly from the hive for them. They would take the bar, as is, with them. I may be able to build up a group of customers who will appreciate my GOURMET honey (big grin ).

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James D. Satterfield email: jsatt@gsu.edu