Bountiful Bees of Broad Street

08/19/2026

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08/18/2026

For some cooks this is a pasta container. For me, it's a hazardous material containment vessel and its cost will be treated accordingly as an expense on my Farm Schedule F.

08/15/2026

Sneak peek at today's New Jersey Beekeepers Association equipment auction.

08/14/2026

08/09/2026

Spring 2026 honey now being harvested and bottled

Using the USDA Pfund Scale a sample was graded as "extra light anber".
August Herman Pfund was a physicist at John's Hopkins who devised this scale based on comparing honey samples against an image of honey ranging from light to dark.
One device mimics this by using two wavelengths of light ch pass through a honey sample and measures how much light passes through the sample.
This removes a significant amount of subjectivity in Pfund's original device as different people perceive honey colors differently.

07/31/2026

Drained and cleaned my bottling tank. There was honey at the very bottom that had some wax fragments that I didnt want to re-strain. Added a bit of water then tried feeding it back to a hive in the Borough community garden At first they seemed uninterested but then they drained it in a day.

All gone. This is truly recycling - especially since I havent pulled honey from this hive yet.