It’s the end of the first year for my asparagus bed and time to prepare it for winter. This first year I did not harvest any of the shoots and let them all grow into tall ferns. The first order of business is to let the asparagus grow until the frost starts knocking it back and . . . → Read More: Asparagus – Preparing the bed for winter
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It’s hard to believe how things change in a week. The asparagus is growing like crazy. Some stalks grew 8 inches in 7 days. Almost all of it has broken the ground by now. These stalks will keep growing and open up into some something like a fern. This first year we leave them alone and . . . → Read More: Farming Update – 05/10/09 Got home today and had to work with the bees. I had not been able to check them for a week. My new hive needed fed and my old hive needed sugar dusted. Mandi decided to pull up a chair so we could chat while I was working. Right after I got started she noticed a . . . → Read More: Bee swarm – 05/05/09 Thought I’d supply a little farming update. Lot’s of good things going on this week. First off, we have a new addition around here. Moses the cat. He is the family cat but Abi got to pick him out and name him. We hope he becomes a heroic mouser. That’s the role we hired him to fill. I . . . → Read More: Farming Update – 05/03/09 Here’s a little farming update for those of you keeping score at home. The first photo is of two fresh eggs. They were still warm when I picked them up.With only three chickens we get 2-3 eggs per day. Soon we’ll have 10-12 chickens and they should all be laying by September. An unfortunate accident involving . . . → Read More: Farming Update – 04/25/09
Not really an inspection today as much as a feeding and a quick glance. My strong hive is a survivor from last year. They are doing very well. I didn’t treat them for mites very well last year because of lack of experience and they still came through very well. These are . . . → Read More: Inspection – 04/25/09 We have been adding to our food production as time, space, and money allow. We have been interested in apple trees but had not pursued it. On the property there is an area that is almost 1/2 an acre of pine beetle destruction. Pine trees laying everywhere and in some pretty dangerous angles. I have never . . . → Read More: Creating An Orchard
Learned a hard lesson today. I came across a solid food recipe for wintering bees and decided to use it in my hives. Everything looked like it should go pretty well but it definitely did not. The recipe I was using called for using 1 cup of corn syrup to 7.5 . . . → Read More: Inspection – 01/04/09
My friend Michael had a chicken coup he built at a place he was renting. Since he had moved he wasn’t using it and he took it down and reconstructed it here at the house. It’s a great coup with four built in laying boxes, plenty of roosting space, and enough headroom . . . → Read More: Chickens – New Coup
Have been very excited the past few months about building a new shed. I’ve been very blessed to have my dad help me out a lot with it and my friend Michael pitched in some free labor as well. Phase 1 has turned out very nice. Stall width is 12 feet and . . . → Read More: New Shed |
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