Sunflower plantings!

In the field… Excited to get into the field and start planting sunflowers!  This post will be light on text and heavy on pics (but as they say, a picture…

Where is the queen?

Bees… Today, Joshua and I headed up to Spokane to get our bees.   Joshua in front of boxes of bees Joshua holding our box of bees Ready for the…

Putting together our top bar hive!

Beekeeping Joshua is taking beekeeping in 4-H so we decided to do a top bar hive for his 4-H project.  Joshua and I put together our top bar hive yesterday. …

Eggs, eggs, eggs…

In the Kitchen Last week, I got some duck eggs from Meadowlark Heritage Farm!  I had duck eggs for breakfast yesterday.  I had never tried duck eggs…they were great!  Everyone…

New sunflowers for this year…

Sunflowers I am trying some new sunflowers this year.  To see the varieties that I planted last year, check out this post HERE. I am adding the following new varieties:…

Top bar hive

Beekeeping Joshua and I are going to get a top bar hive and try our hand at beekeeping.  This will be a 4-H project for him.  He has always been…

Jamming plums

In the Kitchen I had been given some plums last fall.  I did not have time to do anything with them so I chopped them up and put them into…

Fermenting sauerkraut

In the Kitchen This will be a short post this week.  It has been a busy week but I did manage to FINALLY start some sauerkraut fermenting!  I have been…

New opportunity…

Sunflowers Some good news…I was talking to my friend at Meadowlark Heritage Farm and she said that I could grow my sunflowers at her farm!  I think she is so…