With the arrival of intermittent spring weather, I've been very busy lately.  The outdoor projects have begun in earnest and my hands a...

Now that we're settling down into some properly autumnal weather, with temperatures dipping below freezing overnight, I think it's ...

We had our first chance at a frost last night.  It came on a day of such autumnal sweetness that we couldn't bear to spend much of it in...

Time for another jumbled update on various snippets of homestead life. I've made a not very well informed start on a permaculture guil...

I updated you a little too soon on the bees.  It's been one thing after the other with my beekeeping debut.  I left the house for a few ...

I got lucky and was able to replace the Italian bees that took off last Thursday.  It's good to be in contact with the local beekeeper...

The Italian bees have gone.  They were clustering on the bottom of their screened bottom board early yesterday morning when I went to tend ...

We picked up our two packages of bees on Sunday afternoon and got them installed just an hour or two before some light rain fell in the eve...

I spent Thursday baking.  I'm trying to use up the last of a 50-pound bag of flour that includes the germ of the wheat before spring te...

It seems like half the bloggers I read regularly are starting bees this year. So I figure there are even more people out there interested i...

Here's a tip I picked up at a beginner beekeeping seminar. It came in handy for me, and so I pass it on to any of you who are starting ...

My packages of bees are arriving on March 28th! I'm not ready for them, and there's a lot of work to be done before I will be ready...

I sort of threw down the gauntlet to my readers on the cusp of 2010. I'm curious to see how much food we can produce on our little pro...