Honey Extracting Accessories

Once the supers are off the hive, having the right honey extracting accessories makes the difference between a clean harvest and a sticky mess. This category covers the handling and filtering side of extraction — buckets for collecting and settling, strainers in 200, 400, and 600 micron sizes for filtering out wax and debris, a double sieve stainless option for extra-clean results, and honey gates for controlled bottling. Micron size matters: finer microns catch more particles but strain more slowly, so many beekeepers use a coarser pre-filter first. Nixa Hardware & Seed Co carries the pieces to build out a simple, functional harvest setup at any scale.