Sumo Radish

Stained Glass Vegetables

Daily Harvest

Guess what is for dinner!

Daily harvest

I can't believe it is almost the end of October and we are still eating like this!

Bees retrospective

Here is a photo of Kim and me looking in the hive earlier this summer.












On the right is a photo looking down into the hive.







Here is one of the frames lifted out of the box. We are looking to see how well our queen is laying and for signs of mites. We have been treating them for mites in a couple of different ways and they have been steadily decreasing.

Daily harvest - honey!

This afternoon Kim and I opened the hive and had a look around. I have been getting kind of freaked by the bees reciently and really wanted to be calm and lovely with them today.
The bees really understand intention and good energy and when I was peacefully going about my work of rooting through their home with my sharp metal tool they rose up, clung to my shirt and stung their little hearts out. Damn. Maybe next time I will get over my little bee phobia.
We removed a drone frame and cut out some honey comb. The hive is still too new to really harvest the honey, but every month or so we can get a little sample. It is always a little different because of what is in bloom in our neighborhood.
This time tasted darker than before and a I thought it had a little bit of that stinky taste of buckwheat honey.
We put the cut honey comb into a funnel with cheese cloth, mash it up and then wait.

Honey!

This is the honey!