Posts Tagged ‘People’

new power tool delivers

June 19th, 2010

In one day, this new little tiller has become an essential tool for me in the garden.  I was looking for a new tiller and was originally going to get the little four stroke Honda.  Turns out Honda sold out of all the tillers and are not getting any more for the season.  I started looking around again and found that Mantis now makes a tiller using the Honda 4 stroke engine.

Walking behind this little machine was almost a joy.

Using the cultivator setting I walked about 10 km in one day weeding all the way.  The tines have a well defined edge which even allowed me to get in nice and close to the plants without damaging them.  Hopefully this little machine will help me keep all the grass under control.

My Grandparents managed to come out to see the chickens.  They both used to work for the hatchery where the chicks came from.  My Grandma sexed and boxed the chicks, Grandpa delivered.  There are wood chips on the ground because of all the rain we had over the last couple of days.  Instead of moving the chicken tractor we just added dry bedding for them.

adding honey supers

May 26th, 2010

With all the cloudy, cold and rainy days we have been having I wasn’t sure when the next opportunity to check on the bees was going to be.  Turns out yesterday was the day.  I thought the bees would be a little angry at me for showing up but I managed to check on them and add the honey supers without a single one bee bouncing off my head.  I didn’t open up the brood frames to take a look so that likely helped keep them calm.  My current philosophy with the bees is: they know what to do in the brood supers so why should I go in there and mess it up.   I’m on my second year of this philosophy and so far they are still buzzing around.  It’s a bit of a lazy way to keep the bees but until shown otherwise I’ll keep with it.

My one brood box is getting a little soft.  The bees were entering the hive from two holes on the sides.  I patched these up by sliding a couple pieces of bark into the holes.

My Booth

September 2nd, 2009

me in farmers market booth

That would be me in my farmers’ market booth.  I usually try and keep the plastic container labels not facing the customer but I guess I missed a couple that day.  Behind me is my pricing board which is still something I’m learning to do.  I usually have to ask around a little bit to determine what the going rate at the market is for that day and then adjust accordingly.  You can see I’m pretty heavily stacked towards the summer squash.