Cynthia R-T
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Spring in the Bee Yard
Carniolan honey bees on the newly built bee platform, one week after the walk away split + new queen (for the new colony), Monterey Bay super bloom (wild radish, echium, milk thistle) and Queenie the goose (she’s setting).
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March, So Far
It has been a long, wet, windy winter. The chickens, ducks & geese were literally all cooped up for far too long–but then, you can’t have your birds being blown out of the yard in a sudden gust! It would usually sound like dramatics, but for the fact that the arbor with the huge Cecile…
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Making Compost while the Sun Shines, or not
Ah compost, the original reduce-reuse-recycle undertaking. All that dragging the garden trimmings and young weeds around the yard, on a tarp, in a wheelbarrow, in a huge garden tote. How ever. We’re recycling solar energy into our garden, just add time and water and bingo: brown gold. Well, almost. Actively deciding to make compost has been…
Grow Your Bliss 