Monthly Archives: May 2014

I’ve gotten behind on posting Homestead wildflowers.  The maples are leafed out now, casting the understory into shade and marking the end of the main sequence of ephemeral flowers.  There are still some new ones appearing, and I will keep … Continue reading →

I’ve been putting off posting photos, hoping to have time to create a longer photo essay.  That’s probably not going to happen so let’s get some pictures online… I didn’t have much planned for graduation celebration, but then Kelly called … Continue reading →

I think we finally have the right number of beehives – enough that we can manage them as a self-sustaining unit, keeping extra queens in reserve in nucs and using bees and brood from nucs to build up weak colonies. … Continue reading →