Lughnasa Waxing Honey Extraction Moon Walked in the garden alone. Yep, it’s an old time spiritual, much loved in the churches of my youth. It also describes my morning turn among our vegetables and in our orchard. The garlic has come out already. The potatoes have a while yet to go. The beans have gone […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon Today I performed partial hive box reversals in all three colonies. The second hive box of three gets rotated to the bottom and the first or bottom box rotates up to take its place. This means that all the hive boxes have to be moved, so it is a labor intensive […]
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Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon The onions, red, yellow and white, are in the storage room ready to go on the wooden racks when I have a minute. The honey, too, is on the bottom row of our shelving unit, collected in canning jars and resting in the boxes that held the canning jars in the […]
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Lughnasa Waning Artemis Moon Late summer taste treats. We have red and golden. These are the hives with their maximum honey supers. We extract honey on Monday. This is just one of several deep cave descents attempted by the Andover Speleological Society, Rigel and Vega founding members. The newly mulched orchard from the perspective of […]
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