by T. Touris – Apparently the latest infectious viral meme going around the interwebs is a complaint about adults going to Disney...
Category : Gardening
The Homestead Gardener: Seeing Eye to Eye when talking potatoes
by Derrick Gentry – “So you grow your own potatoes, do you?” I may be overly sensitive, but I sometimes detect a certain tone...
The Homestead Gardener: The jungle out there
A Blooming, Buzzing Confusion While reading a review of a new biography of Rudyard Kipling, I came across a quoted passage from The...
Dragonfly Tales: Birdsong~Words and Songs at Odonata
We’ve had many visitors over the years here at Odonata Sanctuary: students from R.I.T. who come every year to study the barn built...
Homestead Gardener: Between the rows, between the cracks-A fantasia on weeds and weeding
With the garlic bulbs and the onions out of the ground and curing, and most everything else still weeks away from harvest, July in the...
Bee Lines – It’s swarm season
by Sam Hall – For honey bees swarming season is here. It is when nature tries to increase the number of colonies to insure the...
Bee Lines: Queen Rearing 101
by Sam Hall – At this time of year as a beekeeper, it is hard to contain my excitement that after our long winter spring is...
The Homestead Gardener: A springtime ode to clover
by Derrick Gentry – “This morning, I noticed that the ___________were beginning to come up!” Something new is coming up...
Dragonfly Tales: Monarch Butterfly
It’s a bird, It’s a plane! No, it’s the Magnificent Mystical Marvelous Migrating Monarch Butterfly! by Steve Melcher – In...