Long, hard winter for the bees.
The cold killed many honeybees this year. Some directly. Others starved because it was too cold to move from their cluster in the center of the hive to reach the honey in the edges. We made the trek...
View ArticleBees before the storm
It was 47* F yesterday. The bees were not happy, but they were moving. They have to get out of their hive to evacuate their digestive system. Earlier this spring when we had a warm day, the snow in...
View ArticleBig Pigs love to Dig
Our pigs are getting big! As the ground thaws, they are really enjoying doing what pigs do: digging with their cute, little snouts. Well, not so little. And when they are covered with dirt, not so...
View ArticleA puppy visit
I recently ran into a woman in Ann Arbor who breeds and trains and shows Weimaraner dogs. Turns out, she lives just down the road a bit from us! She had two litters of puppies that she was just...
View ArticleComfrey
This is the first year my comfrey has bloomed. I harvested a few roots last fall to use for medicinal purposes, but wanted to see how much I could grow for animal feed. I am pleased with how large it’s...
View ArticleReal, raw orange juice
What’s in your store bought OJ? One of my favorite food bloggers, FoodRenegade, wrote an excellent article on this topic that you can read here....
View ArticleFarm Friends
One of the (few) advantages to not having our own farm yet is that we are not burdened down with a ton of morning chores. Some friends of our recently experienced “a wind event”. I’m pretty sure this...
View ArticleUpdate
We have decided not to sell our house. That means buying a farm is on hold. For a minimum of 5 years. Our furnace and air conditioners were over 15 years old so we replaced them with a new...
View ArticlePriscilla the persnickety pig
Yesterday was butcher day for our three pigs. We co-own them with a friend who fed and watered them every day for us since they were about 16 weeks old. We bought them and kept them on our tiny...
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