I ran this post last year, just after a late frost in the middle of May. It occurs to me that running it a bit earlier this year might prev...

Originally uploaded by Smoobs We put in two elderberry plants last year as a productive replacement for a long patch of forsythia.  The for...

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 ...

It's been a few years since I started down the road to self-sufficiency, and started checking out of the pervasive corporate-culture tha...