Full disclosure time. I’ve been in a pretty big funk lately. There’s a number of reasons, and probably quite a few that I don’t know about. All in all, I haven’t felt the writing muse for a while. It’s tough to write about preparedness related stuff while keeping a positive tilt on things, and lately… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Hive Inspection – June 11, 2011
So this last weekend my gorgeous wife accompanied me to the bee yard to see how the bees were doing with the second deep box I added the week before. I also expected to see hatched bees and an increased population. I wasn’t disappointed on the population front, there were definitely quite a few more… Continue Reading
Hugelkultur Beds … The Final Product
So my mom read my last post about Hugelkultur beds and took some pictures of the end result. So with no further ado or any real comment, here’s a couple shots of the first bed … with and without the floating row cover.… Continue Reading
Hugelkultur In Action!
I’ve written about Hugelkultur concepts before. It’s basically taking a pile of wood and covering it with dirt. Longer term you end up with beds full of great organic materials … rich, healthy, fertile soil. The wood also soaks up water like a sponge, which helps with the whole irrigation thing. I heard about Hugelkultur… Continue Reading
Bolting Spinach, My Oh My
The Pacific Northwest hasn’t been exactly sunny and warm this year. In fact, we had a ton of snow recently in the mountains, and it’s been downright cold. Except for recently, when we had a bit of a warm stretch. Which we enjoyed, but some of our plants … not so much. Specifically, our favorite… Continue Reading
Last Weekends Hive Inspection(s)
I had originally planned to blog about each of my hive inspections, but with as busy as I’ve been lately, that just didn’t happen. So instead, I’ll skip to the latest inspection. Technically it’s two inspections, but I’ll write about them as one. Last Friday I cruised over to the bee yard after dinner to… Continue Reading
Planting Our Orchard
This spring we planted a total of 51 trees in our new orchard. We have a nice hill with perfect southern exposure so it gets plenty of light. It’s not too steep so water shouldn’t run off too fast. We’re also considering putting in a few swales to keep more water on the hill, but… Continue Reading
A Holiday Weekend With The Kearneys
So as I mentioned in my last post, we had an extended visit to the Property, or ‘The Farm’ as the kids like to call it. I despise crossing the Cascades west-bound on any holiday weekend, so instead of coming back Monday, we stayed until Tuesday. While most of the weekend was spent relaxing and… Continue Reading
And … He’s Back!
And predictably…life happens again! So it’s been a while since I wrote last, and life has been pretty busy. We took some extra time over the long weekend, which I’ll write about in a separate post. The weekend before that, my wife went back East for her sisters wedding, and was gone for four days.… Continue Reading
