I’ve had a few requests for a post on how to build a top bar hive. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I though it might be best to simply give you the link to the source. So, courtesy of Tool Lady, here’s the link… Free Top Bar Hive Plans Of…
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Happy Friday, everyone! It’s been another wild week of unseasonably warm weather this week. All I want to do is put seeds in the ground, but I have to keep reminding myself that we still have almost two full months of potential frost. So, instead of putting seeds in the…
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Yesterday morning I got out and played in the garden for a bit. I’ve been wanting to plant some fava beans (broad beans) and some snap peas but keep getting distracted by work and school and wind and the bees and…well…a million other things. Of course, the yard is a…
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Happy Friday, everyone!!! Man, has this week felt crazy to anyone else? Not sure what’s going on, but it’s been a little batty around here. Well, thank goodness for Fridays and warm weather…I could really use some meditative time in the yard… 🙂 Plant something (under grow lights)…I’m kind of…
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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what to actually plant in our new Pallet Beds since, before last Friday, they hadn’t fully existed in our imaginations, let alone in our yard 😉 Until then we thought we’d just put a fence around the new bee space…this is…
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Well, I don’t have any new pictures to show you of the bee relocation, because the weather was absolutely gross today! It was so windy all I could do was check on the chickens and hoop houses while trying my best to not get blown over! I do however, want…
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Today we… Painted old pallets, wrapped weed cloth around them and stuffed soil into them Cleared more rocks & leveled the ground where the bees will be moved to Put some stakes in the ground Secured two of the three pallets to their stakes Created trellising above each pallet for more vertical grow space…
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After much debate, we’ve decided to move the bees. Don’t worry, we’re not moving them to someone else’s property. Instead, we’re moving them from our front yard into our backyard. Why? Well, the main reason is because, as we learned last year, it turns out I am extremely allergic to…