Smell: The crisp spring air, the blossoming of flowers, the warm earth longing for seeds to be sown… Taste: Crunchy baby carrots and just picked greens… Feel: The sweet softness of newly buzzed hair…and the makings of a mohawk… Hear: The sweet morning coo’s of happy chickens… See: The absolute trust of a new puppy in a loved one’s lap…
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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 course, Tool Lady tweaked them a bit, but this plan…
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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 ground outside, I just keep putting more and more under…
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Hello everyone! I’d like to introduce, for the first time ever in this space, my Partner Kim (AKA Tool Lady)!!! She is going to explain how she built me what is quite possibly the best garden gift ever…a potting table!!! Full disclosure: there are a few pictures missing from this explanation since, while she was busy building, I was busy…
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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 mess. We’ve been working on several projects which usually means…
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“I’m reminded today that bees gather nectar from all the flowers they can find as far as they can fly, and create beauty and sustenance for their colony in the form of honey. They journey outward, pull something from the flashes of beauty they find, and bring it back home…” ~Round Mountain Robby & Char are Round Mountain, a local Folk Band, whose…
