I was finally able to get together with a homesteading buddy to work on our top bar hives last night. It was a hoot.
We are both now the proud owners of two hives each. Now if I can only get a call for a swarm… Read the rest of this entry »
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A honeybee swarm (from photofarmer on Flickr)
“Help, there’s a swarm of bees!”
If you hear someone screaming that phrase, or something similar, feel free to give me a call at the number above (if you are in west Michigan that is). I’ll be happy to come out and take the bees away to a new home (click here for my rates). If you aren’t in west Michigan, you can likely find someone to help on the Bee Source Forum.
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from fireballsedai on Flickr
Planning time. Or I guess it would be more a refinement of plans. Basically I’ve been convincing myself into a circle about a few issues concerning the garden.
First off: Rain barrels. Or water on the most fundamental level. Ideally I’d like to have the entire garden be fed with soak hoses, with supplemental water coming from a hose in hand and possibly a sprinkler too. My problem is that my well pump doesn’t have enough umph to power a sprinkler (has to do with the 1/2″ pipes that my entire house is plumbed with. Sigh…).
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One weekend down, more to go. We’ve been sugaring.
I was able to work from home last Friday (woohoo) because the Internet was wonky at the office, so I snuck off to start boiling (in all honesty, I did work while I was there – yeah for wireless). We ended up getting just over a gallon of syrup. Yummy stuff.
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I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
-Albert Einstein
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It’s early March in Michigan. The temperature is starting to get above freezing during the day before dropping back down to the low 30’s at night. The snow is starting to burn away in the spots that are getting sunlight.
It’s the season for making maple syrup!
This past weekend we went out to my folk’s house to set up the sugarbush. For the uninitiated, a sugarbush is the group of sugar maple trees that you tap for making syrup.
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