Many things about honey including nectar sources, the club extractor (soon to be updated and motorized), and videos on how to extract can be found can be found under HONEY on our website.
Enter the honey show at the Prince William County Fair and even the Virginia State Fair. It’s good for everyone. It’s good for you to learn how to prepare your honey and wax in “show” quality which is how it should look every time you sell it; it is good for the public to see products of the hive at their best quality shining on the shelf, and it’s good for all of us to promote beekeeping and products of the hive as part of agriculture Grown in Virginia! There is unprecedented interest in beekeeping, the public is hungry for education about bees, and honey is getting a premium price. I believe that honey and other products of the hive belong beautifully presented as agricultural products at the local county fairs. One of the best beekeepers I know says it best- in his paraphrased words Mike Palmer says honey shows are about showing off what our bees have given us, presenting the beauty of their gifts to others, and carrying their beauty forth in the products we provide for sale.
You Can Do It Too! You can improve your own skills by entering a honey show and you can show the public the beautiful by products of our favorite pollinator. PWRBA will even give you a free glass queenline or Gamber classic jar to enter the PWC Fair (while supplies last). Special this year– Mr. George H. Wilson III has offered to test your honey with a refractometer and let you see it in a polariscope (a glass jar required for this part) if you come early to the Aug. 4th Fall Management Seminar (6:30-7).
More links and great information about honey, the PW County Fair and the State Fair below:
http://pwrbeekeepers.com/honey/