honey

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Shown are my new hive holders. The old holders were made from pallets and after 8 years were falling apart.

 We have had a very successful HONEY year for our little bee apiary. The girls (worker bees are all girls) have been working really hard. If interested, a pound of our pure local honey is $10. Yes that is more expensive than most grocery store honey but most grocery store honey is only 25% pure honey. If you want corn syrup don't buy from a local Beekeeper. Beekeepers honey is 100% pure honey from bees not from corn.  

This year I am working with a different box design. This box opens down from the side instead of opening up from the front. This design makes it easier to monitor your bluebirds. Four days after putting up the house a bluebird family moved in and layed the four eggs shown above. All fledged!!

Cut open a Persimmon seed and look at the shape of the kernel inside:

• If the kernel is spoon-shaped, expect plenty of snow to shovel.
• If it is fork-shaped, plan on a mild winter with powdery, light snow.
• If the kernel is knife-shaped, expect frigid winds that will “cut” like a blade.

Here we go again, 2024 looks like another spoon!!

If you want to help save the Monarch butterfly, you need to plant some milkweed plants.

Squirrels eating the bird food and deer eating the remaining corn.

This year I have been working with the NRCS to create a pollinator field. This is what the field looked like after cutting the hay, but next year, hopefully this area should be full of wildflowers.