I’ve been daydreaming about gardening again, and spring is close enough now that I can start getting everything ready for the busy planting season! When I took some […]
Beekeeping
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♫The Hives Are Alive…. With The Sound Of Buzzing ♫
Today was another gloriously warm February day topping out at about 61F. And while the sap was not flowing much at all from the maples or black walnuts, […]
Beekeeping / Black Walnut Syrup / Chickens / Homesteading / Maple Syrup
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Birds, Bees, and Trees
Today was an unusually warm day for February in Ohio, topping out at a balmy 60F. It feels like Spring has come early, and perhaps it has, only […]
Chickens
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Why Home Grown Egg Yolks Are Darker And How To Deepen The Color Further
If you were to take a home-grown egg and a typical grocery store (factory farmed) egg, crack them, and compare them, the most obvious difference would be the […]
Black Walnut Syrup / Maple Syrup
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Help! I overboiled my syrup!
When you’re making maple syrup (or black walnut!), it takes hours of boiling before you arrive at your finished product. Today I’ve spent the entire day boiling. After […]
Black Walnut Syrup
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Black Walnut Syrup!
Today was a colder day than yesterday so the sap wasn’t flowing as well as I’d have liked from either the maples or the black walnuts. However, I […]
Maple Syrup
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First Maple Syrup Boil & How To Know It’s Done
After placing taps in five of our maple trees last night, I was delighted to find a decent amount of sap had collected overnight! Altogether, they filled a […]
Maple Syrup
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Start of the 2024 Maple Syrup Season!
I’d initially planned on waiting until closer to the end of February to start tapping the trees, but once I took a look at the weather this week […]
Chickens
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Why Do Chickens Take Dust Baths?
Today was a reasonably warm (for February) day. I was outside measuring maples and black walnuts to see which trees I’ll be able to tap this season, so […]
Beekeeping
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Burr Comb and A Beekeeper’s Spoils
I’m itching to get back in the hives. It’s so meditative and peaceful watching these industrious creatures move about the hive working away. Wild bees know precisely how […]