Imbolc Bloodroot Moon Snow came in the night. Maybe 2 inches. Freshened up the landscape, pushed back the melting time. Last year […]
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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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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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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 potatoes on slatted wooden shelves that slide into our root crop storage system. They went […]
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Lughnasa Waning Honey Extraction Moon Working in the late summer garden. Those creepy pre-beetle organisms continue to gnaw on my potato plants and I gnaw right back. So far the invasion has not gained a significant beach head thanks to soapy water and the occasional visit to prune out bugs. Parts of the garden where […]
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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 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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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 two trees. Each time I have removed the tent and stepped on it or crushed […]
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Spring ( it even looks like spring today!) Waning Bee Hiving Moon This morning or early this afternoon I pull the grass out of the entrance reducers and the bees will be free to navigate from their new home. Tomorrow I’ll check on the hive to see if the bees have remained focused in the […]
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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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