Beltane Beltane Moon Flagged off my Latin tutor for this Friday. Bees, garden, retreat, finishing Missing combined to soak up […]
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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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Lughnasa Full Harvest Moon Kate’s out in Denver visiting the grandkids while Mark and I hold a visa watch, waiting for some word from the mysterious world of Saudi bureaucracy. Yesterday I took a trip to Duluth to deliver 3 pounds of honey in payment for use of the image on this year’s Artemis Honey […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Honey Flow Moon The six new honey supers did not prove necessary since I’m still two supers ahead of each colony, but it does look like colonies 2 & 3 have already stored a lot of honey, especially in the two supers that went on in place of the third hive box. In […]
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Mid-Summer Waxing Honey Flow Moon Kate and I have decided on a pick and plan eating method. That is, we’ll pick fresh vegetables, then build a meal around what we have. I picked this morning, for example, green beans, beets, golden and bull’s blood, lettuce, dill, and 7 garlic bulbs. We still have onions from […]
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Mid-Summer Waning Garlic Moon As the garlic moon wanes, the leaves of the garlic plants begin to brown from the bottom up. When half of them are brown, I’ll pull a couple to see how they’re progressing. I plant more garlic than we use; for some reason it appeals to me as a crop. Partly […]
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Beltane Waning Garlic Moon In my new names for Minnesota full moons this is the garlic moon, because under its gaze, in its waning nights, the garlic leaves will begin to die back and the garlic will be ready to come out of the garden. This is now my third year with garlic started from […]
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Imbolc Waning Bridgit Moon This has been a nix two-day event. The Woolly’s, for the first time I recall, canceled. Too little parking around Charlie Haislet’s condo. The days events scattered around me, I never quite got traction, feel a little down. Nothing bad, just wheels spinning. Don’t like it. The snow-blower, which needs a […]
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A Garden, Some Latin, Ai Weiwei
Beltane New Last Frost Moon The potatoes are in the ground. The lettuce has two leaves, as does the spinach, a few beets have emerged. The leeks look a bit droopy, but they’ll pick up. The garlic is well over 6 inches now as it makes the final push for harvest in late June, early […]
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