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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… The post Chicks and ducklings appeared first on With the...
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Drumstick says, “Hi”
We were able to get some chickens back in August for a very good price. They were all chicks of varying ages. 10 of them were broilers, and this is Drumstick. He’s the biggest one of the bunch, and...
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Farm and garden fun
We have six new peeping critters in our house. :O) Four quail hatched over the weekend, and the chicken chicks started today. One hatched out as I was getting ready to lay down for a nap, and another...
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Yesterday I mentioned that our garden order arrived. We went outside to plant the strawberries today, and discovered that there were only 24 plants instead of the 25 that were supposed to be in the...
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Fuzzy little creatures
So far we have 9 chicks and 4 quail that have hatched. Their chirping is so sweet to hear, but they can get really loud. They’re so loud when they first hatch that it sometimes wakes us up at night. We...
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We’re hoping to do a really big garden this year, but it’ll be limited in size due to what Stephen can till up around his work schedule. I can’t control our tiller – no matter how hard I try, it digs...
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This afternoon, we came home from church and discovered that one of our quail chicks had escaped their little box home. It seemed that it was nowhere to be found. We looked under the couch and chairs...
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Meet the mighty Samson
I came home from a ladies’ meeting Saturday afternoon and was greeted by the newest member of our little farm. Meet the mighty Samson. He is one week old. He is a full-blooded Saanen – a breed we’ve...
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Today the boys and I drove up toward Statesville to pick up some new chicks. It was a fairly long drive, but we actually made it home by lunchtime. Some of Stephen’s work days he drives over an hour...
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Chick pictures, as requested
Dana asked if I could post pictures of our newest batch of chicks, so here they are. The Rhode Island Reds are the lighter colored chicks. The Aracauna/Americana cross aren’t purebred chicks (this was...
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Our hens lay the prettiest eggs
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