Be joyful though you have considered all the facts
OVER FIVE YEARS OF RIOT! This is the Riot for Abundance for June-July 2104 for the three of us (two adults, one eight-year-old). Edson fixed the calculator: all go tither to crunch those numbers! And here’s another fun website for the mathematically inclined: Do the Math. Gasoline.  Calculated per person. Our weakest point in the Riot, …
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We just had an almighty deluge come down like it was going to wash us all off the face of the planet. Aside from some flooding in the basement and porch, a wet husband and some wet chickens, all is well down here. Not so for the bees in the exposed nest up high in …
My strong hive, H6, swarmed, possibly for a second time, on 7/14. Here’s one of of my friend Doug’s pictures of the swarm: They hung out on a tree about 60 feet up, still on our property, for days. Then I thought they were gone, and I stopped checking on them. My neighbor, however, has …
We got started on rebuilding the earth oven – we demolished the first try a month ago. Again we had friends helping and there was lots of talking while having fun. All limbs were put to work on mixing the clay with the earth.
One of the friends coming to help with the honey extraction yesterday shot some great pictures. Here they are, for your viewing pleasure! Thank you, Doug!! He really captured my kitchen in this one: And lastly, he is the only photographer who managed to penetrate the leaf cover and take a shot of the swarm …
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It’s been a roller coaster with my two hives. Good thing I expect that now! They are both first-year packages, installed end of April. One has been so-so, with a queen laying very little in a spotty pattern, then nothing at all. When I couldn’t find her, I put in a frame of eggs from …
This is one of my favorite times of the year: the first harvests are coming in. For greens, we are eating kale, lettuce, chard and good king Henry, New Zealand spinach, mache, minutina, and celery. All the herbs – parsley, rosemary, sage, etc. are ready. The malabar spinach is almost ready and it’s a lovely …
Three posts in a day! I couldn’t resist posting also these pictures. Chickens are so good to have! They provide no end of entertainment. Unfortunately we have one mature hen who is injured somehow. She will not stand on one leg. I ruled out bumble foot and (thank goodness) Marek’s. None of the bones are …
On the Summer Solstice we didn’t just demolish our Earth Oven, we did a lot more work. I plugged the last holes (I hope) in the rabbit proof fence around the veg garden. We swept and tidied the backyard and patio. Amie and I planted the flowers we got from the garden center. A couple …
Yesterday was a good work day. Not oppressively hot and humid like earlier in the week, but just right for some demolition work. As we used our earth oven, it became more and more clear that the earth we used was not clayish enough. As a result, chunks of earth and earth dust kept falling …