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Of Mice and Bees
Yesterday evening we had our second beekeeping class, after a two week hiatus due to bad weather predictions (you can parse that either way) and school vacation. Rick brought in a full hive and guided us through the components, discussing their uses, alternatives, advantages and disadvantages, and some beginners’ pitfalls. The magical moment, for me, …
Bees
Well, yesterday evening was eventful. I heard a wild cat (or a fisher? – see the comments) in the street. Someone in a drive-by knocked our mailbox right off its perch. I saw the brake lights, heard the crash, the door slam and it speeding off, but it was too dark even to see the …
In Other News
My first Beekeeping class this evening! I’m very excited and plan to report in full. I realized that with all the soil (clay) we’ll be digging up to create the pond, we’ll be able to make an earth oven. There might even be enough to build a small adobe structure around the oven. We’ll just …
More Seed Purchases
The flower garden (to be). Yes, all the way down there. I ordered more seeds, for those plants that were on back order in my previous order, and lots of everlasting and perennial flowers, many of them beneficials. 2068RO-Atomic Red Carrot OG (A=1g) 1 x $1.80= $1.80 2512LY-Olympia Spinach (A=1/4oz) 1 x $1.00= $1.00 3228MZ-Early …
A Flower Garden for Bees and People
Our back garden, house and veg garden are on a little hill. The slope (in red) is quite steep, and we terraced the part where the soil had been disturbed and was eroding. We put beds on either side (only the two lowest ones shown in brown) and a path of grass in the middle. …
Homestead Animals: Bees, Chickens, and Fish
Amie welcomes the first non-human animals on the homestead I signed up for Bee School (7 Thursdays and 1 Saturday morning) and while I was at it I also enrolled for a backyard chicken class (2 Saturday mornings, maybe Amie can come too). It took me so long to sign up because I know that …
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Some Garden Maneuvers
Plangarden and Gimp are handy tools for moving things around in the garden without too much back ache. This is a preliminary map for the Spring 2010 Garden – not the veggies yet, but at least the structures. The hoop house will be moved from its present position (light blue) over beds 8, 9 (still …