GRIT Country Skills Series

HONEY Extraction and Processing

The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How (Storey Publishing, 2015) by Andrea Chesman is a simple-to-follow handbook to get curious foodies on their way to becoming selfreliant cooks and expand the horizons of experienced homesteaders.

If you keep bees, you have already made some basic decisions that affect what will come into the kitchen. If you planned to extract the honey, you set up the hive with wired foundations that are strong enough to withstand the

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