Honey harvest: From hive to table
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Honeybees enter and leave the hive in Glenn Forrester's backyard apiary in Piedmont. They forage for nectar within a 2-mile radius.

Photo: Deb Wandell

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Honeybees enter and leave the hive in Glenn Forrester's backyard apiary in Piedmont. They forage for nectar within a 2-mile radius.
Luke Eidam holds a honey-filled frame.
A super, the box that contains surplus honey, holds frames loaded with honeycomb.
Back inside Glenn Forrester's garage, Don Eidam (center) and Glenn Forrester (left) remove the frames from the super and inspect the honeycomb.
Eidam shaves off the wax caps on the honeycomb using a heated scraper.
The frames are placed in a centrifuge.
The frames are loaded into a centrifuge to extract the honey.
Honey is filtered to remove bits of wax and debris.
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