For harvesting I have gotten some 1 gallon sun tea jars, on the 2nd harvest they easily held 2 flow frames with not much room to spare. At Wal-Mart I found wire mesh sink strainers to put in the mouth of jars that keep bugs and debris out so there’s no need for plastic wrap that doesn’t agree with my motor skills. The strainers have large enough mesh that it will allow the fine wax foam into your honey yet fine enough to trap bug larva and keep flies and bees out of you honey. I am looking for a large enough tap for honey flow yet small enough to fit through the opening. You need to be pretty patient to fill your market jars as is. I’m open for suggestions on tap, then we can work on a Flow Harvest Kit. I have found two frames beside each other are usually matching in color/flavor so you can harvest 2 frames at a time. You are free to go about other work as your honey drains unlike filling individual containers. You could take several of the 1 gallon jars to farmers market with samples for taste testing and customers could choose color, flavor and size jar and bottle their own. To keep the frame channel from overflowing (big problem first go around) I opened frame a little at a time and let the channel almost completely drain. Blessings, Mark
my solution for harvesting is pretty simple- similar to yours but I use tubes so that the honey is not exposed at all and bee activity at the rear of the hive is negated. I have a tap on the bucket so can decant the honey however I like after I am done. here is my simple set up:
I feel two frames at a time is adequate because you don’t risk mixing too many flavors and with open tubes you don’t have to be concerned with an airlock. I could not see you setup as your picture did not come through, just a space for it.Blessings, Mark
photo should be visible now?
I have 3 holes in my bucket lid so can do 1, 2 or 3 at a time. Generally I also do two at a time. As for mixing flavors- it’s called ‘blending’- and it adds complexity 
Nice harvest Mark. The honey is sort of stout coloured isn’t it?
Heavens! That’s dark honey.
What is it?
Very dark, I believe it,s the darkest I’ve seen. My mentor thinks it may be from mimosa tree, I have 3 large while neighbors have several.
Yes, very dark, I believe it’s the darkest I’ve seen. My mentor thinks it may be from mimosa tree, I have 3 large while neighbors have several.
Yes, very dark, I believe it’s the darkest I’ve seen. My mentor thinks it may be from mimosa tree, I have 3 large while neighbors have several.
Suggestions?
Hello there,
If I understand you correctly - you are looking for a honey gate that can fit on your glass jar? I’m not sure but I have only ever seen much larger ones and don’t know if you could find one to suit those containers. A fine solution would be a standard small bucket with a standard honey gate installed? If you want to keep frames separate just decant the bucket after you have harvested each frame or two.
I am harvesting today- and as it is winter- and the honey is flowing quite slowly- I may well leave my extraction bucket and tube out all night to let as much honey drain out as possible. Being fully contained I can do without without much issue.
Semaphore, I have only seen the honey gate in larger size also, if I can’t find something that will work i’ll make something or have something made. “Necessity is the mother of invention” or something like that. I like the one gallon glass jars for display: see below
Blessings, Mark