Happy Spring everyone!!! Look what I found in the garden a couple of days ago! Yep! Rhubarb! We transplanted it out of a big pot and into the ground last fall, crossed our fingers it would survive and it did! We haven’t gotten anything really harvest-able off of it in the past two years, but I’m really hoping this year will be…
Happy Monday everyone! What a week it’s been! We had beautiful weather pretty much every day this week except for Sunday, which was absolutely disgusting…windy and grey and dusty and gross…so darn windy that plastic to one of my hoop houses is pretty much torn to shreds. We attached a new (not big enough) strip of plastic over the top…
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 to say that last nights move went very smoothly! With…
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 and to crate a barrier for the bees to fly…
Happy Friday everyone! This week has been super long and super exhausting. I manage an after school and summer camp for girls and this week we held our annual Spring Break Camp. While it’s been full of lots of fun and a ton of learning (we focus on hands on, experiential science activities throughout the week), I am completely wiped…
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 bee stings. I have purchased an EpiPen and haven’t been…
