Chris Slade writes

"First, there is nothing one can do to improve honey quality. One can hope
only not to spoil the perfect product too much."

That is a good point. People always tell me my honey is so much better
that what they've had, and I say that's because I do LESS than the people
who bottle the honey you buy in stores. No 140 degree or whatever heating,
no microfiltering, no mixing with people who have fed their bees with
sugar (I'm not mocking those who live in areas that they must); and nobody
outside my family touches my bees or my honey.

And as a strange note, I don't put my beehives right next to a very large
garbage landfill with a hazardous waste facility. I kid you not, there is
a large apiary next to the landfill in our county.

What I do with cappings rather than heat them is to cram them into feeder
bottles and fill the air spaces up with warm water. I've done it several
times during different sorts of weather, and so far it's never fermented
or anything. The bees take a few days to use the mixture, and I'm left
with that sort of light, dry wax that's so easy to melt down.

Regards
Tim Vaughan

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