Fall Waxing Autumn Moon We had our final straight from the garden meal last night. Roasted potatoes, onions, fennel, carrots and a lone beet. Raspberries for dessert. Marinated chicken for protein, not from here. Today I cut up the leeks, cooked some chicken breasts, carrots, celery, peas and corn (none of these ours), and cooked […]
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Fall Waxing Autumn Moon Going out today to collect the rest of the rest of the harvest. A few potato plants I missed the first time around remain. Leeks, those Musselberg Giants. Some carrots, some chard. Beans. Rain has appeared in the forecast for the first time in weeks. A good thing, but it reduces […]
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Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon Checked the honey supers this morning. On the two package colonies that I do not intend to overwinter, we have approximately four full honey supers. That is, we have for harvest the amount of honey they would have needed for the winter, close to 200 pounds. Figure that 40 pounds […]
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Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Kate and Annie (her sister) are off to Omaha, Kansas City and various quilt shops in between. When asked what they do on the bus (she’s done this before), she said, “Talk.” Me, “No singing, no poker, no beer?” Nope. Brother Mark is here, decompressing from a tough six months, […]
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Spring Waxing Bee Hiving Moon Business meeting this am. Looked at our IRA and Vanguard balances. Both healthy thanks to good planning and the recent surge in the market. Theses glances at our assets won’t be as much fun when the market heads south again, as it will. Right now though they’re cheering. I […]
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Winter Waning Moon of the Cold Month -13 at 8 am today Just slept 11 hours. After a two-hour nap. And ten hours the night before. My body is at work, fending off this chest cold I have. I feel pretty good right now, but I don’t think it’s quite done. Still, fluids, steam baths […]
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Lughnasa Full Artemis Moon Still waiting on the extracting equipment though I imagine it will arrive soon. Then, setting up the honey house with the extractor and the capping knife and the capping container. I’ll move some things around, get ready for winter storage of honey supers, put in a solid table for handling supers […]
Read the rest of this entry »Planting During the Full Planting Moon
Beltane Full Planting Moon Ah, the sweet feel of being in synch with the moon. I planted Scarlet Nantes carrots and golden beets amongst the green onions and the radicchio. Threw in a few zinnias for good measure. Next in the onion bed with storage onions, dill, marigolds and some other flower I can’t recall, […]
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Summer Waxing Green Corn Moon Dinner with vegetables straight from the garden is a treat and can be a surprise. It was tonight. We had potatoes, new potatoes, dug just before cooking. They had a distinct flavor, a nutty earthy tone unfamiliar from the long since harvested potatoes typical of both home and restaurant cooking. […]
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Spring Waning Seed Moon The bee hives have a new coat of white sealer, a soothing color for them. The raised bed on which I painted them has some tulips pushing up and the bed across from it have the garlic. They’ve begun to wake up in force now so we’ll have the pleasure of […]
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