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This article was published 25/08/2022 (1277 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Hiltje and Andrew Vander Velde collect boxes full of frames containing honeycomb from their beehives, so they can extract the honey at their farm southwest of Rivers on Monday. The lifelong farmers have been beekeepers since 2014 and care for approximately 200 hives. Each hive has around 60,000 bees at its peak. This year honey production is close to a month behind schedule due to the unseasonably cold and wet spring. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
A honey bee sits on a box at the Vander Velde farm southwest of Rivers on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
The Vander Veldes collect boxes full of frames containing honeycomb from their beehives, so they can extract the honey at their farm, southwest of Rivers on Monday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Andrew moves frames full of honey from his beehives to his honey extraction building on his family's farm southwest of Rivers on Monday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Andrew loads frames full of honeycomb onto the honey extraction line in a building at his family’s farm, southwest of Rivers on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Andrew loads frames full of honeycomb onto the honey extraction line in a building at his family’s farm, southwest of Rivers on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Andrew puts recently extracted frames back into boxes for next year on his family’s farm, southwest of Rivers on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
A honeycomb waits to be extracted at the Vander Velde farm southwest of Rivers on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Extracted honey drips as it waits to be collected by the honey extraction line at the Vander Velde farm southwest of Rivers on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Andrew puts recently extracted frames back into boxes for next year. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)
Andrew loads frames full of honeycomb onto the honey extraction line in a building at his family's farm, southwest of Rivers on Tuesday. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)