Hi Folks,
How much pollen is too much pollen?
I run two deeps as brood boxes. Last year, and now again this year, all my boxes are somewhere between four and six frames packed FULL of pollen, out of twenty.
I collected pollen years ago, but it was a pain collecting, managing, freezing, drying, bottling,... so I stopped, one season only. There wasn't much of a market back then. Honey filled up my time. What's the market like for pollen now?
I pulled and saved pollen frames from last year, and determined they were useless this year as pollen comes early around here. They seem to me to be wasted effort. It takes up real estate that could go for brood.
How much pollen is too much pollen? How could I get old, packed pollen out of cells? Should I just trash those pollen frames and replace with new frames for brood? I'm dusting off my pollen trap today.
Sal