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,...
When we ventured into beekeeping last spring, my biggest fear was losing the bees during a hard Indiana winter. This winter hasn’t been particularly rough, but we have had a good number of deep freezes. Enough to worry a newbie beekeeper, anyway!...
It was a little windy today! But the chickens were thrilled to get out to forage in the warm sunshine. It was pretty entertaining to watch them fight the fierce winds.
I’m sure we aren’t unusual in our experience of reading the Little House books and wanting to try all of the fun things that the Ingalls family did! When we read “Little House on the Prairie” a couple years ago, Bella was determined to try her...
