# Spring honey harvest with Isabella

**URL:** <https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/spring-honey-harvest-with-isabella/40644>\
**Category:** Flow Beekeeping Live with Cedar\
**Created:** [September 22, 2026, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/spring-honey-harvest-with-isabella/40644 "2026-09-22T05:00:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bija](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bija](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/bija)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2026, 5:00am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/spring-honey-harvest-with-isabella/40644/1 "2026-09-22T05:00:32Z")

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[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/9/9/99adc32be49b1bcea54cafba92950b2019656d0c.jpeg "Spring honey harvest") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9HA2ZJRWPk)

The Q&A covers spring hive management, with a focus on harvesting honey to create space and reduce the risk of the brood box becoming honeybound and contributing to swarming. Cedar and Isabella Shoemark demonstrate how to set up the harvesting shelf, select a capped frame, use the Flow Key to open the frame, and collect honey directly into a jar without the need for conventional extraction or filtering. The bees clean and refill the Flow Frames after harvesting, while the pest-management tray should be cleaned periodically.

The session also answers questions about beekeeping in different climates, winter preparation, Flow Frame maintenance, bee safety, swarming, absconding, and getting started with bees. In colder climates, beekeepers may reduce the hive size for winter and should remove the queen excluder so the colony can move through the hive with its stores. The discussion also covers cleaning Flow Frames after they have been stored outside the hive, managing pests, choosing queens, sourcing local bees, and using resources such as [TheBeekeeper.org](http://TheBeekeeper.org) and Flow Hive’s beekeeping book for further learning.

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**Author:** ![wiki21](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/wiki21/32/32498_2.png) [@wiki21](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/wiki21)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2026, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/spring-honey-harvest-with-isabella/40644/2 "2026-10-01T16:00:19Z")

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Flow Hive makes harvesting look stupid easy. Good reminder to pull that excluder before winter.