Z's Bees

Z's Bees Local Honey ~ Raw & Pure Locally produced pure raw honey in Claremont, CA!

08/17/2026

This is catastrophic! 🥲🐝
I post articles, like this, hoping to educate people, on what a crisis this is. Bees are SO MUCH more, than honey! They’re our life!

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08/14/2026

💕GRATITUDE 💕
To all who contributed jars, to this craziness! At this point, in my life, I’m no longer collecting…
Until next time, of course! lol
🐝😵‍💫🍯

08/10/2026

Here’s what we do, to get our honey from hive, to cute jar!

What Goes Into Harvesting Honey

1. Inspect the hive
* Open the hive and carefully inspect the colonies.
* Determine which honey supers/frames are actually ready to harvest.
* Honey should generally be ripe and capped, meaning the bees have reduced its moisture sufficiently for storage.
2. Remove the honey-filled frames
* Each frame can be surprisingly heavy—often 5–7 pounds when full.
* The beekeeper has to remove the frames without excessively disturbing the bees.
* Bees are gently brushed or otherwise cleared from the frames.
3. Transport the supers
* Full honey boxes are heavy and awkward to carry.
* They need to be moved somewhere clean and bee-free for extraction.
4. Uncap every frame
* Bees seal mature honey cells with a thin layer of beeswax.
* The beekeeper removes that wax using an uncapping knife, fork, or heated uncapping tool.
* This is one of the most tedious parts because you’re working over thousands of individual honey cells.
5. Extract the honey
* Frames go into a honey extractor, which spins them using centrifugal force.
* The honey flies out of the cells and runs down the inside of the extractor.
6. Strain
* Freshly extracted honey contains bits of wax, pollen and other debris.
* It’s strained to produce clean honey while generally preserving the honey’s natural character.
7. Let it settle
* The honey may be allowed to sit so tiny bubbles and remaining particles rise to the surface.
8. Bottle it
* Honey is transferred into sanitized jars.
* Then come the lids, labels, weights, dates, and all the other little details that make those beautiful finished jars.
9. Clean EVERYTHING!
* This may be the worst part. 😂
* Honey gets everywhere—on equipment, floors, tables, hands, clothing and anything nearby.
* And because honey is so sticky, cleanup can take a considerable amount of time.

🍯 And there’s another important job…

A responsible beekeeper also has to make sure the bees are left with enough food for themselves. You don’t simply take every bit of honey from a colony. The amount available for harvest depends on the strength of the colony, season, location, nectar flow and expected forage ahead.

So when someone buys a jar of local honey, they’re not just buying something the bees made—they’re buying hours of work, equipment, careful hive management, and a whole lot of sticky cleanup.
🐝☺️🍯

*FULFILLED* for now ☺️S.O.S.Please eat your pickles, jam and olives!Honey coming out of our ears!
08/09/2026

*FULFILLED* for now ☺️
S.O.S.
Please eat your pickles, jam and olives!
Honey coming out of our ears!

It’s that time again!Help me out, honey lovers!🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯
08/01/2026

It’s that time again!
Help me out, honey lovers!
🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯🍯

WE DID IT AGAIN!!!3rd time, that we’ve placed, at the O.C. Fair!!!!Blaisdell RanchAre we excited???Ya think?!!!
07/24/2026

WE DID IT AGAIN!!!
3rd time, that we’ve placed, at the O.C. Fair!!!!
Blaisdell Ranch
Are we excited???
Ya think?!!!

Cregg and I will be working our club’s bee booth, from 10-7 today. If you’re there too, stop by and say hi!
07/24/2026

Cregg and I will be working our club’s bee booth, from 10-7 today. If you’re there too, stop by and say hi!

We were checking on our hive, at my daughter’s this morning, AKA: http://Instagram.com/Olive_penns_farmWe couldn’t be mo...
07/22/2026

We were checking on our hive, at my daughter’s this morning, AKA: http://Instagram.com/Olive_penns_farm
We couldn’t be more excited, about this year’s harvest potential!
Get ready, Honey Lovers! 🐝🍯

I highly recommend this movie for your littles! It’s absolutely adorable! 🐝
07/21/2026

I highly recommend this movie for your littles! It’s absolutely adorable! 🐝

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