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8/11/2025: Honey Harvest Day!

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Honey Harvest 2025 We here at Propps Honey Company are thrilled with the bountiful harvest we had this year. After 13 hours of labor we ended up with 10 5-gallon buckets almost full of honey from our 16 hives! 119 frames (like you see below) of honey, which we though was just so perfect since our company verse comes from Psalm 119.😊 ✝  The following weeks we took our time with bottling up the honey, and ended up with a whopping 200 pint jars, and 171 12 oz. squeeze bears! Just for reference, we got just 52 pints and 47 honey bears in last years harvest. We reaped what we've sewn into, that's for sure! We've got a busy fall, setting up at various markets and festivals, and we're buzzing with excitement! Enjoy some photos of this year's honey extraction!🐝🍯💛 An odd frame, but has delicious honey in it nonetheless These are all full of honey!!! A hot knife is used to cut off the wax cappings, allowing the honey to be whipped out in the extractor. Frames inside the e...
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Hello there, "bee"utiful people!

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     Hey there, we’re Propps Honey Company! We wanted to start up a little blog to keep people informed on the "goings on" of our Hive!      Just as an introduction, I'm Allison Propps, the co-owner of the company, and most importantly, the wife of the owner, Remington Propps. Beekeeping was something that I guess I married into, but I've loved it so far (as long as I have my suit😆). Remington has the real passion, and has since he was a child, helping his grandfather in Lindside, West Virginia beekeep. This hobby buzzes through his side of the family from all sorts of people, so it's no wonder it got passed down to him! And speaking of things being passed down, part of the reason we've had such a good start to beekeeping is because of Remington's great-aunt, Betty, who gave us a priceless amount of supplies from her and her husband's days of bee farming. At one point, Betty had over 100 hives! Talk about a swarming operation! As she and her husband g...
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