The honey and saving the bees is a motivating factor for us. I make sublime candy with egg whites, hot honey and rosewater & nuts called torrone that is a traditional Italian nougat candy mostly gifted at Christmas that my friends all lose their minds over. And we want to make mead/honey wine and honey is awesome in general!
We've owned our house 8 years but the last 7 it really got neglected b/c I got sick and was in the hospital for 3.5 years, it's coming up on 2 years since my last hospitalization, which is great!!
Just this May I decided to start working on our property, everything was neglected, overgrown, trash everywhere. It was sad. I started with a pair of hand held rosecutter snips and began in my front yard and now WOW!!
I have done a lot this year, but my budget was screaming tight, otherwise I would have done more. I have gotten my huge maple tree cut down to open up my backyard to grow veggies in my raised garden bed that my 24 dp meaties and now 6 muscovy ducks are prepping for spring planting. Next I'm preparing bokashi to spray everywhere when I harvest my crops over the next few weeks and after we process a bunch of my ducks and chickens it will be so quiet around here. I will reduce my flock down to 9 in my laying flock, 3 ducks, 19 chicks are in my barn, 10 I think are pullets, 2 will move to my laying flock when they're big enough, the others into a coop/run that hasn't been built yet, but we have most of the materials to do it.
I'm making my first batch of ginger beer now, I've almost finished the ginger bug. I need to go pick up spent grains from the home brew store up the street later. Busy busy!!
We've owned our house 8 years but the last 7 it really got neglected b/c I got sick and was in the hospital for 3.5 years, it's coming up on 2 years since my last hospitalization, which is great!!
Just this May I decided to start working on our property, everything was neglected, overgrown, trash everywhere. It was sad. I started with a pair of hand held rosecutter snips and began in my front yard and now WOW!!
I have done a lot this year, but my budget was screaming tight, otherwise I would have done more. I have gotten my huge maple tree cut down to open up my backyard to grow veggies in my raised garden bed that my 24 dp meaties and now 6 muscovy ducks are prepping for spring planting. Next I'm preparing bokashi to spray everywhere when I harvest my crops over the next few weeks and after we process a bunch of my ducks and chickens it will be so quiet around here. I will reduce my flock down to 9 in my laying flock, 3 ducks, 19 chicks are in my barn, 10 I think are pullets, 2 will move to my laying flock when they're big enough, the others into a coop/run that hasn't been built yet, but we have most of the materials to do it.
I'm making my first batch of ginger beer now, I've almost finished the ginger bug. I need to go pick up spent grains from the home brew store up the street later. Busy busy!!
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, it's been a while since we've talked. I remember getting the baby chicks, they are much bigger now though, but baby, the Belgian D'Uccle bantam looks funny next to all the bigger chickens. I might take a pic when I get home. Great to hear from you again! 
