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First honey of the year
We harvested our first frame of honey this week. We’re not ready to do a full harvest of the main hive yet, but since this frame was completely capped, we took it inside to harvest it. Stephen’s...
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Why our home smells amazing today
We started working on harvesting honey today. Our home smells amazing. There have been some questions asked about the process we use, so we took a lot of pictures this time. This is the super we’re...
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Bees cleaning honey from wax
When the wax in the honey strainer bucket was pretty much done filtering (see here for the first post on processing honey), we put it in a pan and set it on the porch so the bees could take the last of...
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Harvesting honey
Brushing bees off a frame of honey so we can take it in the house We harvested more honey over the weekend. It was probably the last super we will take off the hive for the year. They’re still...
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Random updates
The garden has been going crazy. A friend from church came over last week to help me can tomatoes – we got 24 1/2 quarts canned that day. That was a very tiring day but I’m SO thankful for everything...
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New around here
We added some new animals lately – rabbits. They’re New Zealand Whites, and these two are females. One of them will hop right to the edge of the hutch and let us pet her, the other one isn’t quite as...
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It’s definitely spring
It’s definitely spring – wow – is the pollen count through the roof or what?!? It’s been so beautiful out lately. It makes me just want to stay outside all day, but of course that doesn’t happen....
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Gardening
Things have been so fun around here. We got a greenhouse! Ok, I’m probably the only one as excited about it as I am, but that’s ok. I’ve wanted one for a long time. When this one went on sale, we...
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Meet Cinnamon
Meet Cinnamon. She’s new here. Isn’t she cute? We bartered some hens for her yesterday, and the kids just love her. Cinnamon is a Nubian. I didn’t deal with our other goats much when we had them,...
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Chicks and ducklings
We bought 10 Americauna chicks and 4 Mallard ducklings last week, along with 5 rabbits a couple weeks ago. Spring is definitely on the way…
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First honey of the year
We harvested our first frame of honey this week. We’re not ready to do a full harvest of the main hive yet, but since this frame was completely capped, we took it inside to harvest it. Stephen’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why our home smells amazing today
We started working on harvesting honey today. Our home smells amazing. There have been some questions asked about the process we use, so we took a lot of pictures this time. This is the super we’re...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bees cleaning honey from wax
When the wax in the honey strainer bucket was pretty much done filtering (see here for the first post on processing honey), we put it in a pan and set it on the porch so the bees could take the last of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Harvesting honey
Brushing bees off a frame of honey so we can take it in the house We harvested more honey over the weekend. It was probably the last super we will take off the hive for the year. They’re still...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Random updates
The garden has been going crazy. A friend from church came over last week to help me can tomatoes – we got 24 1/2 quarts canned that day. That was a very tiring day but I’m SO thankful for everything...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New around here
We added some new animals lately – rabbits. They’re New Zealand Whites, and these two are females. One of them will hop right to the edge of the hutch and let us pet her, the other one isn’t quite as...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s definitely spring
It’s definitely spring – wow – is the pollen count through the roof or what?!? It’s been so beautiful out lately. It makes me just want to stay outside all day, but of course that doesn’t happen....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gardening
Things have been so fun around here. We got a greenhouse! Ok, I’m probably the only one as excited about it as I am, but that’s ok. I’ve wanted one for a long time. When this one went on sale, we...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet Cinnamon
Meet Cinnamon. She’s new here. Isn’t she cute? We bartered some hens for her yesterday, and the kids just love her. Cinnamon is a Nubian. I didn’t deal with our other goats much when we had them,...
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Chicks and ducklings
We bought 10 Americauna chicks and 4 Mallard ducklings last week, along with 5 rabbits a couple weeks ago. Spring is definitely on the way… The post Chicks and ducklings appeared first on With the...
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