YO GEORGIANS! :)

[Flowerbh]

Hartwell ga near the Carolina line

My daughter used to be the Park Ranger at Hartwell State Park before they made it just a day Park!

 

[Flowerbh]

My

I plan to have just five pullets and perhaps one cockerel for now. Lisa still wants to move to a larger homestead, so that plus a couple of other things are keeping me from getting back in full swing. It was tough for us to say goodbye to all our chickens. They are wonderful fowl. We had 80+ at one point last year.

We have three bee nucs on order, so we will start raising bees soon. It was Lisa's idea to get into the bees, but it looks like I will bee the bee man...lol Actually, we're all looking forward to the bees. Wish we lived closer to you and Randy, so our bees could tap into that sourwood nectar flow in late summer. That's my favorite honey by far. If you ever decide to raise bees, you're in the perfect location for it.

my daughter is taking bee keeping classes. It is a 7 week course and then they order the bees for her! She just bought a home and 5.5 acres in rural Virgina. But, she works out of DC.

 

[BioBantams]

My daughter used to be the Park Ranger at Hartwell State Park before they made it just a day Park!

It’s really went down hill since then

 

[Flowerbh]

It’s really went down hill since then

Yes, I heard the same thing. All the parks who have had the managers removed have suffered. Lots of drugs, litter, damage, etc going on when nobody is there to keep it in check.

 

[Flowerbh]

So excited! Gonna get some Crested Ducks and some Dark Brahmas in June!

 

[Flowerbh]

Bummer! Just candled the 22 Crested Cream Legbar eggs in my incubator I got from a friend. 14 not fertile! Only 1 of mine was not fertile and I figured it wouldn’t be because it was from one of my chickens who gets over the fence all the time. My friend is going to be so upset that his rooster isn’t doing much good!

 

[Mylied]

I have a hive @brucifer . It takes some patience to get through that first year without taking honey. I so wanted to steal some. I finally get to harvest this year. I have to get another super to put on it. They are full up. I see them all over the yard since the weathers been good, getting water and doing their job on the fruit trees.

 

[Mylied]

The first mushroom day went well. The rain held off and we got a lot of work done around the place. We're on schedule to do more next weekend weather permitting.
https://www.facebook.com/LongLeafGeorgia/posts/838892092948865
And we'll have bunnies ready for adoption in a couple of weeks.

Great pics! I didn't know you have a farm page. I just liked it. (Katherine Hosmer) Looking forward to next Saturday.

 

[brucifer]

For what ever reason, here at Longleaf you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Sourwood tree. @GAMarans

I didn't know you had sourwood there. If you're still doing the mushroom thing this weekend, I'd like to stop by your place. Everyone is clear of the flu over here.

 

[brucifer]

I have a hive @brucifer . It takes some patience to get through that first year without taking honey. I so wanted to steal some. I finally get to harvest this year. I have to get another super to put on it. They are full up. I see them all over the yard since the weathers been good, getting water and doing their job on the fruit trees.

That's great @Mylied . I anxious to get started. None of our fruit trees have bloomed yet. Peach tree went straight to leaf, and we're still waiting to see what the pear trees will do.

As for the bees, it may take me awhile to get used to handling them. I've checked out a lot of videos, and there are so many different methods beekeepers use. The folks who just go in with bare hands and just start pulling out frames are impressive. I don't know how they avoid getting stung, even with a smoker going.

I ran across this video on the Himalayan honey bees. Crazy, huge bees. Crazy honey. Crazy way to harvest it.