I love learning new things. I have curiosity about many topics. When I was homeschooling my kids, I went to conferences and meetings to learn about teaching effectively. I read online materials to support my quest for teacher-created materials and lessons. For example, we had many national food production boards send us helpful things. I’m not homeschooling currently, but…
I have to talk a little about this new hive site. I was fortunate enough to gain a spot with a community garden where immigrant families can grow their native foods. I just love that idea. Back in the depths of winter, the garden program manager and I had preliminarily chosen a place that was “near” a plot…
After I removed a mouse from a beehive, I had to fix all of the entrance reducers to keep it out of the other hives. My solution was L brackets from the cabinetry section of the hardware store.
Younkers. I put so much love into this hive. I remember it like yesterday. Here is how the hive looked on 9/11/2014: Younkers didn’t even make it to Day 300. Here is Younkers on 3/9/15: It was living in the bottom deep, but when I started moving woodenware around, it moved to the upper deep. It…
Education is a large part of beekeeping. If you want to be good, you have to work at it. One way that I work at being a good beekeeper is by reading. This particular photo challenge is helping me be consistent with blogging and photographing my hobby.