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Whether you get your honey from a local beekeeper or a commercially available source, the process of harvesting honey is similar. Only the scale of operations differs.

Another difference in harvesting is the “style” of honey that’s going to market. There are four major styles of honey, and the differences mostly have to do with how the honey is presented to the public:

 Still in the wax comb

 As a liquid extracted from the comb

 As a combination of the preceding two

 Whipped or creamed into a smooth, spreadable product

See Chapter 3 for more details.

How these styles of honey are harvested differ, but since here in the United States there is more extracted liquid honey sold than any other style, I use that as the example in the following sections.