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Queen discovery, broken honeycomb, and lessons learned.

It’s been about 2 weeks since I last checked on my new mates. These ladies have been hard at work building out the brood box frames with new honeycomb. Pretty impressive work ethic. It’s like their lives depended on it Read more…

We decided to add bee’s to our farm! We received our first bee hive, painted it, created a bee bench (to get the hive off the ground), and got it positioned out on the farm. We opted to purchase a Read more…

The trees have been planted for well over a month now, time to start mowing down some weeds. I got out to the field and realized the alfalfa had grown much higher than expected (my Christmas tree farm had historically Read more…

It was past due for me to get the mower out and mow down the grass around the firs. You can actually see the trees finally. Unfortunately the zero-turn got away from me a few times and nailed a tree… Read more…

Finally got my initial tree order into the earth. This wasn’t the most fun thing I could think to be doing on a weekend but hey, I’m a driven guy. These were the Canaan Fir trees I had ordered last Read more…

We picked up our first saplings from Timbuk Farms on Saturday, March 20th. Timbuk Farms was about an hour drive from our location here in Ontario, Ohio so I had my bestest pal Cisco (our Weimaraner) join me on the Read more…