Spring 2016 Update

The azaleas are blooming so we put out the hummingbird feeders yesterday. Saw the first bird today. No photos yet. Bob has been busy in the sun porch and garden. He has lots of tomato, pepper, and eggplant seedlings just waiting for danger of frost to pass. But he also has lots of stuff in… Continue reading Spring 2016 Update

Endings and Beginnings

In early December 2012, we brought four pigs home, not really fully prepared for what it meant to add livestock to the farm. In those three years, I have done things I never imagined I would from being present at the birth and death of a pig to eating an animal I helped raise. Last… Continue reading Endings and Beginnings

Pigs, Produce and Preserving

I need to stop making pledges about any particular schedule of blogging. Summer gets the best of us in many ways. The weeds begin to win and the wind goes out of the sails, often just when it is time for fall gardening. I don’t think people understand the importance of this overlapping time period,… Continue reading Pigs, Produce and Preserving

First Honey Harvest

After nearly 18 months, two failed hives, and a long cold winter of worry, I harvested two frames of honey today! Only one of my hives produced any honey–and it looks like there are easily three or four more full frames in the super–so I decided to go the slower, low tech route of draining… Continue reading First Honey Harvest

Bookends of the Day

My day–at least the daylight hours–begins and ends with chickens.  The automatic door that is supposed to open and close with the daylight simply refuses to work. I have to uncover the small door in the morning so they can get into the yard and then cover it at dusk after they have settled into… Continue reading Bookends of the Day