It’s taken me days to write this post, which is a testament to the fact that KIDS + HOMESTEAD= a serious lack of extraneous time! This lack of time has brought me all the way to Friday, without a new post, so naturally, this will become a “Seven Quick...
— 1 — Is it spring yet? Indiana seems to be confused. It’s been a long and whiney week, here. I think the kids are all annoyed by the cold, soggy weather. Little snippets of spring weather have us all the more disgruntled with the cold!...
We’ve been collecting sap from our trees for a week now and have quite a bit. Sap is largely water, so it take an enormous amount of sap to make a small amount on syrup. Forty gallons of sap will boil down to make about one gallon of syrup. That’s a lot...
When I checked the weather forecast late last week, it showed freezing nights and nice warm (40*-50*) days. That’s a perfect forecast for running sap! We were all set and ready to tap our first five trees this weekend, with plans to watch the weather...
(This is part II of a series, see part I here) Once you bring your bees home, make sure to set the hive in its permanent place. Bee’s get confused if they fly off for the flower garden and come back to find their home moved! We placed ours on cinder blocks,...
