Harvest reflections
Autumn is almost done. It approached rather suddenly and with my brother and his wife departing at the start of it I did not feel prepared to do justice to the harvest [...]
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You spin me right round baby
My wife has a deep-rooted aversion to cleaning the honey spinner; and she has an equally deep-rooted belief that I can’t do it thoroughly. I clean it, then it stands [...]
Bees swarming!
We live in interesting times indeed – I had three stories ready to go at the same time! The framed chook greens one was basically finished, so it went out, but this is [...]
H is for Honey
It’s always great excitement when you harvest anything new for the first time. Some of you may have been doing the bees and honey extraction so many times that it becomes a [...]
H is for honey
OK this isn’t about a full-on harvest as such. But it’s a bit like picking those first five apricots off a young tree. It’s a bit of a celebration. Especially if it’s [...]