Grounded. At last.
Spring Planting Moon Yes! Planted … Continue reading
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A Force of Nature
Spring Bee Hiving Moon In these months, when I go … Continue reading
Posted in Faith and Spirituality, Family, Garden, Great Wheel
Tagged basil, cherry, cilantro, green onions, leeks, moon, rosemary, shallots
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Making Pot Pies
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Family, Garden, Great Wheel, Our Land and Home
Tagged chard, garlic, heirloom vegetables, honey, leeks, pot pies, potatoes, raspberry, spinach
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The Final Harvest
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 … Continue reading
A Melancholy Garden
Fall Waxing Autumn Moon In spite of the 80 degree plus weather it felt like a fall day outside. The sky blue, the clouds white, the sun weak. Collected the potatoes. After Mark carried the harvest inside, I put the … Continue reading
Sunday
Fall Waning Harvest Moon A gorgeous fall day. A little Ovid in the morning, a nap, a flu shot, drop off audio books at the library, help Mark practice parking. The bonus of the ongoing visa madness is that he … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Family
Tagged driving, Kate, leeks, Mark, peaches, pot pies, raspberrie, raspberry pie
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Bee Diary: August, 2011
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Bees, Garden, Great Work
Tagged beans, beets, chard, honey, honey supers, leeks, potato, tomato
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Pick and Plan Eating
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, … Continue reading
Bee and Garden Diary
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Garden
Tagged apples, beets, carrots, leeks, lettuce, onions, potatoes, raspberries, reversals, spinach, strawberries, sugar snap peas, tomatoes
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In the Garden
Beltane New Garlic Moon One of those nights last night, unable to get to sleep, still rolling around awake at 1:00 a.m. Up a little bleary. Wrote few e-mails, then out in the orchard, first. I’ve had tent caterpillars on … Continue reading
Posted in Bees, Garden, Great Work, permaculture
Tagged insomnia, Integrated Pest Management, leeks, orchard, potatoes
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