little while ago now, but Eltham has large stands of Euc.melliodora (Yellow Box) which can be quite dark, 7 fits with your time frame, also Euc.polyanthemos
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Hi Kirsten ,
Bees are slowing down now did our 4th harvest 21/1/2018 so that makes just under 80kg of honey from October 10th 2017 .
We have our new 7 frame flow ready to go and will be getting another hive given to us from a mate 
will see how we go with that. Our original bees are still all here and havenāt swarmed we put in another brood box which has made them happy
We will do the same with our new 7 frame hive so we should double our production next spring to 160kg plus Kids will be happy as labels are made and have only sold 1/3 of our honey ā¦given most of it away to friends and family all very impressed those that have purchased some keep coming back for more
enjoy your bees guys,
Canāt thank the Andersonās enough for their creation , we feel very privileged to bee in the position we are today
Mark Kate and Kids
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Great job Mark!! We also gave much of our honey away as well. This year I bought some 6 oz bottles for the give aways instead of giving away 16 oz (24 oz of honey) at a time. Spread the love around.
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This may be more than you want to see but I kept a pretty good history of
progress.
Just a bit of history. My great grandfather was a bee keeper. He was a
circuit riding Methodist preacher in Montana starting in 1908. He started
Baldwin Beeline Honey to support his family. I was never involved with bees
but I saw be large honey vats when I was young and wanted to continue the
bee keeping tradition in the family and wanted to have it as a hobby.
I started the hive on June 2, 2016 and let the brood develop through 2016:
Added a 2nd brood box July 10th 2016:
This video was on March 18, 2017 after winter was over and before first
harvest:
First harvest April 4th:
Video of 1st harvest:
2nd Harvest:
Each of my harvests have been 21 pint bottles worth. Here is a picture of
our 2nd harvest where we harvested directly into the bottles which was
somewhat messy. This was April 22nd:
On the same day the 2nd harvest, I split the hive with Dan in the video for
his first Flow hive. I gave him 5 frames full of bees
3rd Harvest
The 3rd harvest was the video I posted. This was May 7th and this was after
splitting the hive in April:
4th Harvest
I harvested again on May 23rd for the 4th harvest and split the hive again
with 4 frames going into this brood box and ordered another flow hive. I
placed this hive about 2 miles away.
5th and 6th Harvests
I harvested again on June 24th, September 1st.
7th Harvest
This was the harvest I posted on the forum originally. This was October 7th, 2017.
I took pictures to show progress after a week after harvesting
on October 7th.
The bottles are pint bottles and weigh 16 oz of water but a pint of honey is 24 oz since honey weighs more than water.
Really pleased with the Honey Flow!!
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Thank you for sharing was really good to see the progress of your bees.