I brought home the hive yesterday. Amie is so excited about it; it is finally becoming real, as in, not just Mama talking. She’s going to help me paint it, though she’s not happy about it having to be white or something close to that.
Having just purchased all the stuff necessary for begin a hive, […]
I did a lot of work in the garden today, another glorious Spring day. I filled up almost the entire new bed against the fence (4 x 16 feet). I am using the soil from the potato towers, which after sitting still for a good 7 months is showing its true nature: it’s full of […]
I organized the shed - it gets to be a dump, over winter - and in a moment of defiance put the snow shovels away. Do you think I jinxed it?
last of the frozen blueberries (rinse out baggie, reuse)
Today was fabulous. Almost 60F, sunny, a mild breeze. Amie and I went outside and worked - well, she sat and drew, I worked. I made a new 4′x16′ bed near the fence, for peas and lettuce (it will be shaded by the summer hoop house). Still […]
Turns out we won’t be replacing our old, rotting, dirt-floor small shed with a new and larger, insulated workshop/pottery studio. The previous owner had an unwieldy septic system put in, and some digging today confirmed that part of that system lies within 10 feet of the corner of the old shed - and closer […]
In the hoop house:
Outside: garlic
And this is where the bee hive will stand:
One of my ambitions is to make a phenology of this place. I’d love to use many media. Words foremost, then drawings, paintings and photographs, and occasionally audio recordings and videos (but those I wouldn’t be able to stick in my favorite “container”, the book). To make a little drawing every day, of the newly […]
So I ordered a bee package, that’s 3 lbs of bees (10,000 of them), and 1 Italian queen, to be picked up at my teacher’s place on 26 April. I admit I am a bit freaked out about it. It’s not like anything I’ve ever done. But that shouldn’t stop me, right?!
Yesterday at bee class […]
I stopped reckoning our food consumption for the Riot a long time ago: the Riot way of calculating our food consumption and production was never clear to me. And so, though the growing and storing and preparing of food are almost constantly on my mind, I haven’t kept track, which made me feel at a […]
