A New Line of Work at BeeMMC

Beecause there is always a need for things on campus that could help improve our lives in some way or serve as a means of income, Gilbert decided to try out bee keeping this year. Apparently bees can produce an easy gallon of honey about every two months. That would provide our
campus with a hearty amount of delicious honey and we would bee able to sell off some as well. It seemed to bee a pretty good thing to try, but as I mentioned earlier, Michael is the only one who sort of knows anything about bee keeping from some books he's read. So Gilbert basically put him in charge of checking on the bees and extracting their honey.

On the two occasions Michael has tried working with our little bees he has had disastrous results. The first time he was stalked by a puma, the second resulted in three stings on his left hand. He finally refused to touch those bees beefore Gilbert had purchased a proper bee suit. Gilbert finally got into town and bought a full bee suit and some heavy duty gloves so Michael could finally check on the honey situation.

There are two boys from the village who know how to extract the honey and said they would bee able to come help. So one day Myron, Joel, and Michael suited up and set out for the hive. Even though they smoked the hive thoroughly, the bees did not respond well to their home being taken apart. They swarmed pretty bad. Needless to say, Michael was extremely grateful for the bee suit.



They worked buzzily for some time beefore showing up in my clean kitchen to turn it into a wonderfully sticky mess during the actual extraction. Beecause the comb had been neglected for so long it was quite unorganized and didn't lend itself to a typical honey extraction situation. Instead of the gallon of honey that could have been, they scraped, squeezed and drained around two pints of honey from that comb. I've gotta tell you though, we've been eating a lot of honey ever since. It is so yummy on cornbread, toast, cereal, and pancakes. Yum! It is really nice. It is SO sweet. We're hoping to harvest one more time beefore we go home. Hopefully the comb will yield much more then.