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Quote: We have had the same issues, always a warm spell followed by a hard, cold drop. It's so frusrating to find them 2" from the honey! Do you insulate your hives? My neighbor puts up a windbreak but nothing else, with iffy results. I was thinking it might help to build more insulation...

1. Research and check all available facts. Look for real statistics if possible: What happened to most other folks, will likely also happen to me. I'm not exceptional. 2. Are there any distinguishable patterns? That is, does this situation resemble another situation that could be used for...

Quote: That. Ask any red-blooded American to do what they do for 1/4 of their pay... just because. Well, lots of jobs are hard and don't pay well. As I was always told if/when I complained about pay, "We have an open door policy here at Corporate, Inc.: The front door is open, and you can...

It's sad, but the farmers can't sell a crop for less than the cost of picking it--they have to cut their losses so they can survive, like any business. Don't know what PYO insurance is like in Florida, but here in Massachusetts it is apparently not too bad: our fruit farms, even the fairly big...

Quote: +1 to walkswithdog. If I have my Pyr out by himself, he will hang out with the chickens. He does have some herding instinct and will round up any birds that he perceives to be "loose chickens," including the wild turkeys and anything larger than a dove in the yard. He does this by...

Hey, it is on Hulu! Good. I don't watch TV and don't have cable, but this sounds interesting. When I was a kid, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, children had a choice of milk or water to drink with lunch. I suspect lunches at the school had to meet some minimum vitamin content, but...

High school history teacher told me that in fact the cannibalism story was a bit of psychological warfare, not reality. The time period you're talking about, the Zulu Empire was fighting British colonists, and they were brilliant strategists who would have used every advantage they...

Quote: Yes. Probably you should add a little bleach to that warm water, or rinse with hydrogen peroxide (the regular kind you put on cuts from the drugstore is fine). Listeria is a bacteria that can grow in any kind of milk (cow, goat, camel, human...) and most types of processed meat (e.g...

Quote: 1. Pollinate my orchard and garden. We have some different species of local bees, my neighbor has a few hives, but none of them seem terribly interested in veggies, cut flowers, or fruit trees. I planted herbs (thyme, basil, fennel, marjoram, mint etc.) in between the beds of veggies, I...

Thanks sgtmom52--that makes me feel a lot better!

Am starting this year with Italians. Wanted to start last year, but I felt like I needed to get the garden established and plant some more early-spring/late-winter bee food plants. Should be OK now...I hope. My neighbor down the road got three hives a few years ago. I was hoping his bees would...

Udmalbet eggplant Tomatoes: Heidi paste, Amish paste, Black Krim, Etoile Blanche DAnvers, Lillian's Yellow, Pale Perfect Purple, Brandywine red (you gotta have Brandywine), Liliana red, Yellow Belgian, Roza red Peppers: Purple Beauty, Thai hot, Black Hungarian, Fish (it's for flavoring fish...

Massachusetts is fairly urban, and culturally closer to Europe than most other states. Lots of history from the early colonial and revolutionary period, lots of state parks and museums where the revolution's battles were fought. Whale watching is pretty much the coolest thing about this area, in...

Happy Ostara! Planted peas, lettuces, kale and oats, and started some shiitake and oyster mushroom spawn, took cuttings from my herb plants, roses and golden chain tree. Going fishing tomorrow!

Tapping my maple trees for syrup.

I dunno, I've seen a few LGDs who still had some herding-type traits. My Pyr particularly loves to herd humans towards the treat bag. They take a little more training, because herding behaviors are really the dog helping you hunt the way a wolf pack cooperatively hunts, but in LGDs this doesn't...

Are you certain you can't run both pipes up through an existing chimney? Our central chimney has one pipe for the furnace, but the installation guys were able to run a second pipe up through it for a wood stove, no problem. If there is room for a regular working fireplace to catch a good draft...

I keep six (two boys, four girls) in a 10x14' pen in an unheated bank barn (two screened-in windows and plenty of cracks between boards for ventilation), and they have access to the entire neighborhood to free-range if they like. Important housing note: apparently clipping a wing did not deter...

I admit to paying $2000 for a dog. A Newfoundland bred by one of the best breeders in the country, whose lines are in both show and working dogs, who is semi-retired from showing and now mostly does training classes for Water Dog, Utility Dog and Agility. Worth every penny. Best rescue...

I have a very aggressive female that has been known to defend herself. One late, dark night, I heard a horrible racket in the barn, and my dogs were in the house still eating their supper. Grabbed a dog and went out to the barn, and found a window pane of glass broken through, the wire mesh...