 Our most difficult predators in the city are squirrels. This year we are experimenting with placing small, red, fine-mesh bags on the hazelnuts as they appear to discourage these furry marauders. I already found one one red bag on the street. Volunteers have been quite kind to tie the little bags over the budding filberts.
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 Honey season at GlennArt Farm had a difficult start. The first of June I could not find a queen in any of the four hives. It was very discouraging, so I left them alone to sort out any natural recovery efforts.
This week, I had wonderful help from Amber and Clay who volunteer with the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. We formed a wagon train of equipment and bee boxes (or supers). Joy of joys, we found two queens in the current hives. Both WWOOFer volunteers were thrilled to see a queen laying eggs in the hive. We returned with hope for honey this year. I could not take a photo of the queen, however you can see a sample photo here of a queen laying eggs. |
Carolyn Ioder
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2/4/17 Girls come home! 2/4/2017 applied for Funding WWOOFUSA 2/11/ 2017 Root Riot Meeting at Glennart. Planning garden changes. 2/18/2017 > Urban Livestock EXPO Cheese Document plan EXCEL Program 2/27/2016 > FIRST GGG Gathering March 3/9/2017 Plant: Spinach, lettuce indoors 3/21/2017 First day of SPRING!!!! 3/22/2017 Plant carrots with garlic April 4/1/2016 Plan/repair pasture fencing 4/5/2017 set up potato beds 4/12/2017 Kidding Season begins > Plant potatoes 4/21/17 Milking season begins 4/25/2016 Set up fencing May > Kidding season continues 5/20/17 Spring Gathering 5/25/16 plant Sweet potato in beds watermelon. squash 5/10/16 Cheese making begins 5/15-7/2/16 Last two does duePatsy and Destiny June July Sale of bucklings August > Sale of bucklings > Weaning begins September > Cheese making continues October > Sale of doelings > Cheese making continues November > Dry out the does December > Does to Wisconsin for breeding |
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