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The bee project here has two active workers, a woodenware maker and a bee keeper.\u00a0 Kate has put together 7 honey supers and 70 frames plus four, and counting, hive ![\"05-15-10_bees_woodenware1\"](\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/05-15-10_bees_woodenware1-300x225.jpg\" "\\"05-15-10_bees_woodenware1\\"")
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boxes and 26 frames.\u00a0 Without her patient and careful craftswomanship, the hives would not exist.\u00a0 I’m just no good at the fine, repetitive tasks involved in woodworking, but she is.\u00a0 She brings an artisan’s hand to her work.\u00a0 As a result we have beautiful hives.<\/p>\n
A possible identity for our hives has begun to take shape.\u00a0 Artemis is one of the many bee goddesses, but she is a familiar name, at least to some, so Artemis Honey is a strong possible name.\u00a0 A common offering to Artemis was honeycakes, so we might be:\u00a0 Artemis Honey, The Honeycake Honey.\u00a0 When we start getting enough honey to exceed our use, including gifts, then we’ll start selling at farmer’s markets.\u00a0 We’ll need a name, a label, a brand.\u00a0 We’ll include a\u00a0 honeycake recipe with every container sold and Kate has agreed to bake up some honeycakes to use as samples at our stands.\u00a0 Let us know what you think.<\/p>\n
Checked the crops today and harvested parsnips.\u00a0 One resisted leaving its happy home in the raised bed.\u00a0 It came out well over a foot long.\u00a0 Smelling the tiny roots off the parsnip just after pulling, amazing.\u00a0 A sweet, earthy, pure scent.\u00a0 Wish I could bottle it.<\/p>\n
When I left the MIA on Friday, I noticed on my walk back to the car, a migration of caterpillars.\u00a0 I believe they were swallowtail butterflies in there can’t fly yet stage.\u00a0 All of them, scores if not hundreds, chose northeast as their route across the warm concrete sidewalks that run between the Children’s Theater and the MCAD campus.\u00a0 At first I just noticed their numbers, then I saw their common journey.<\/p>\n
Where I wondered, did they begin?\u00a0 So, I followed them back, moving against the small, humping crowd until I found a crabapple tree along an MCAD sidewalk.\u00a0 Looking up I noticed caterpillars soon to head north by northeast eating their way out to the end of small branches, then, as the branch bent under their weight, falling to the grass.\u00a0 Why they decided on their direction, I have no idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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