Fall New (Harvest) Moon Second round of apiguard in the parent and the divide. The top box on the package colony has gotten heavier, but I plan to feed them some more as I will do to the parent once the apiguard comes off in two weeks. Sometime in early November I’ll get out the […]
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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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Summer Full Strawberry Moon The full strawberry moon, evocative. Our strawberries have wound down for this season, but we enjoyed them while they ripened. I had blueberries on cereal this morning, blueberries from our patch. Finished the planting for a third harvest: beans, spinach, swiss chard, beets: golden and detroit red and carrots. Kate has […]
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Spring Full Flower Moon Under the full flower moon I inspected my new colony of bees. In this instance I checked the frames for larvae. I couldn’t tell if they were there or not. This is important because it indicates the presence or absence of a laying queen. I’ll check again on Saturday. The queen […]
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