Updated on September 11th, 2022<\/p>\n
Beekeepers spend a lot of time in the apiary managing their beehives. However, some beekeeping tasks require a location away from the bee yard. That location might be a honey house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A honey house is a sanitary space where beekeepers process their honey harvest. Beekeepers also use honey houses for other activities that occur away from the apiary such as rendering beeswax, handling pollen and propolis, and for assembling, repairing and storing equipment.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Backyard beekeepers with only a few hives typically use their kitchen or another clean home area as their “honey house.” With a larger apiary, a dedicated structure may be a more suitable honey house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sideliners and commercial beekeepers should check local regulations regarding the sale of honey. Commercial activity may require a honey house with mandatory specifications, similar to those for a commercial kitchen.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Processing honey outdoors is an open invitation for every bee, yellow jacket, and other insect attracted by the scent. Being swarmed by insects is not conducive to extracting and packaging honey cleanly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your goal is to get the harvest into an enclosed space, i.e., the honey house, with a few bee stragglers as possible. Zero bees are ideal but not always possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think even backyard beekeepers with just a couple of hives would love to have a dedicated honey house. For most hobbyists, though, a separate honey house is not necessary, not feasible, and not worth the expense. A clean location in the home usually serves as a part-time, temporary honey house.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When choosing a honey processing space in your house, consider factors such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n With some preparations, you can keep your in-home honey house from getting too sticky. Here are some of the steps we take to minimize clean-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our easily accessible kitchen is the ideal room to serve as a honey house. With hot water and hard surfaces, clean-up is relatively easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our honey extraction methods do not require a lot of equipment. We cut comb honey and get liquid honey by crush and strain methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy Use A Honey House?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Hobbyist In-Home Honey House<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Our Kitchen Is Our Honey House<\/h3>\n\n\n\n