What's happening around the farm.
Posted in Bees, Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, Vegetables on May 9th, 2012
Spring fever has a different connotation on the farm. It relates to a feverish pace, not to taking it easy. I planned to move the newsletter to Sunday or Monday but am now getting to it Tuesday evening only because of the drizzle. Mostly things are moving along wonderfully. We do have a couple hickups [...]
Posted in Bees, CSA, Vegetables on Apr 12th, 2012
can understand why cultures have worshiped the sun. As long as the sun was out today it was very comfortable washing greens and totes outside. Have a cloud cover the sun and the cold wet hands chilled the whole body. Sun come back out and comfy again. The onions I seeded last fall for early [...]
Posted in Bees, CSA, Vegetables on Mar 21st, 2012
The row cover worked well I laid a 30 x 100 foot sheet of heavy duty row cover over the strawberries last fall as a protective mulch. Using straw provides actual insulation while row cover provides wind protection and keeps a little soil heat in and can trap a little heat in sunny weather – [...]
Posted in Bees, Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, Recipes, Vegetables on Mar 14th, 2012
March 14, 2012 New Truck!! Tuesdays should be calmer. Last week I listed major investments we still have to make this spring. First on the list was a market vehicle. Bruce Kennedy had a nice looking AWD regular van on his lot last fall we would probably have bought but it was for one of [...]
Posted in Bees, CSA, Recipes, Vegetables on Mar 8th, 2012
Remember the Ladybugs I collected and moved out to the hoophouse? I was harvesting and found these ladybug eggs. Yippee! I’ll gladly take your nuisance ladybugs and give them a good home. Sorry the photo is blurry – learning to use a cell phone camera with no close up features. Monday afternoon we actually had [...]
Posted in Bees, Chickens, ducks, geese, CSA, Recipes, Vegetables on Feb 22nd, 2012
First CSA plantings. Up to now all the planting and transplanting has been for the winter farmers market. The salad mixes we are planting now will be long gone before June. In contrast, the spinach we are harvesting was planted last September 25. This week we started onions, leeks, and tomatoes for the CSA. The [...]
Posted in Bees, Vegetables on Mar 18th, 2011
Went down to check the QuickHoops this afternoon. They were not on my radar screen since I assumed I couldn’t open them if needed, but this afternoon I realized that they were in grave danger of overheating and cooking the greens planted in them. I hoped the snow was keeping them cool. The plastic was [...]
Posted in Bees on Sep 27th, 2010
I think I’ve eaten at least a cup of honey this afternoon – evening. If I’m not real coherent, that is probably why. No, I did not open a jar of honey and pour out a cup to drink. I took honey from the bees this afternoon. Quite a trip it was. There are good [...]
Posted in Bees on Jun 14th, 2010
I realize we don’t have a “normal” American house. This spring the photo of the dining room showed plant stands. Now we have the indoor “observation” bee hive going. While checking the bees last week I found a couple “queen cells”, meaning the bees were dissatisfied with their current queen, or the current queen was [...]
Posted in Bees on Apr 4th, 2010
I checked the bees today. They had finished off the quart of their honey I had fed them last month so I took more down. They didn’t need it! I went ahead and left if for them because the weather will turn and bees frequently make through the winter but starve in the spring. First, [...]
