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A is for Anarchy
Time for an update in the Bee Yard. We have a range of action going on in our three hives, which we’ve named A, B, and C team respectively. A, as you’ll recall, is a hive started from a nucleus colony. It had five frames of honey reserves, brood, workers, drones, and (theoretically) a queen […]
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Brewing Beer, IRA.
June 4, 2012
Whew. What a month. Busy with family, finishing a dissertation, and a vacation. Plus all the other projects are bubbling along nicely, sometimes quite literally. Take, for instance, the batch of beer in the basement. The airlock on the carboy is glugging along about once every 8 seconds or so as the gases made by […]
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A-Team Powers Through
April 19, 2012
A Team Powers through a video by WithinSeason on Flickr. Many bee books and sites warn about working bees in the wind, but we didn’t have much choice on install day. Monday was the clearest day in the prediction, if windy. So we ran with it. Fortunately, A -Team is a champ! They were very […]
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Happy Bee Day! Picking up the Nuc aka the Drive of Terror
April 15, 2012
After much anticipation, the bees are finally here! Nuc #1, aka the A-Team, arrived in the night on the back of a trailer along with 50 of their most-irritated friends. Nucs, if you’re new to this like we are, are live colonies. They’re small (about 5 frames — a regular size hive-body will hold 8-10 […]
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Now Entering District 12
April 11, 2012
Like many people, I’ve just cottoned on to the greatness of The Hunger Games. It is a world where districts are dominated by their isolation from one another, where the only information that passes is what can be gleaned from the censored broadcasts of the games. This rolls two forms of oppression into one, combining […]
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LFN: Blue Rooster Farm
March 28, 2012
A Look at Our Local Food Network A few weeks back we had the pleasure of visiting with Roy and Julie at Blue Rooster Farm. They are a grass-based farm, devoted to ecologically friendly practices. Blue Rooster supplies meat and mushrooms to the CSA operated by Village Acres, a vegetable farm run by Roy’s extended […]
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The Sausage Files
February 26, 2012
The Kit: Landers, Frary & Clark # 2 Universal Food Grinder. My mother sent me this grinder just before the holidays. (She had inherited from an older generation.) I haven’t been able to date it, precisely, but the history of the company and the grinder’s basic design is pretty interesting. The company made a wide […]
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Springwatch 2012
February 20, 2012
Behold, spring. We are precisely a month ahead of the vernal equinox, but today a significant event marked the advent of spring. The first crocus arrived and opened, which shouldn’t be too much of a surprise considering how warm and mild the winter was. You’ll recall that last year they were blasted by a March […]
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Within Season 
June 14, 2012
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