Get your Honey Here: BEElieve Honey at the Farmers Market

Today I spent five hours at our Farmers Market selling BEElieve honey. It was incredible. We sold out in 1 1/2 hour. What we sold this week was my honey, harvested last year and still left over, even after all that eating and bartering with it. I had twenty-three 10 oz jars (by weight). I’ll harvest …

Goings On

Wild strawberries, which are said to be deadly when overripe, as these were: deadly because you die of disappointment: no taste, whatsoever. Bummer! A surprise patch of St. John’s Wort – this after trying to grow it from seed (50 seeds, only one germinated). Thank you! Hive 3 swarmed on the 16th and alighted in …

Community Gardens Bean Plot

The morning sky was leaden with promised rain, but three of us were in the Community Gardens, raking, weeding and dibbling, sowing and raking in the seeds. Here’s me behind the wheel. The bucket, filled with water, weighs down the light-weight contraption, pushing the dibbles into the soft soil. It got quite a bit of …

Riot – April and May 2013 – Months 54-55

OVER FOUR YEARS OF RIOT! I’m a little late reporting but I did calculate the Riot a couple of days back for the months of April and May 2013 for the three of us and three house guests for 2 weeks, making it on average 4 people. My summary of our first three years is here. …