… the second best time is now. In April we invested in 10 new fruit trees: 5 apple, 3 pear and 2 peach. We were supposed to pick any young fruit off so that root growth would take priority for the first two years, but we left this peach growing. And another peach. And just […]
Sarah’s idea for a bean trellis using 16 foot long cattle panels is filling in nicely.
“The global status of the dollar is maintained in large part by the fact that it is, again since 1971, the only currency used to buy and sell petroleum, with any attempt by OPEC countries to begin trading in any currency stubbornly resisted by OPEC members Saudi Arabia and Kuwait—also U.S. military protectorates. When Saddam
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“How many times during the day do we feel pain because our pride is hurt? Pride, the exacerbation of self-importance, consists of being infatuated with the few [good] qualities we possess and, often, of imagining ourselves to possess those we lack. It hinders all personal progress, because in order to learn we must first believe
3 week old chicks are figuring out how to navigate the ladder to get outside for the first time. Ben, The Chicken Whisperer!
Here’s a short video of our bees at 6 weeks. They’ve built up to top bar number 9. We’ve moved the follower board back to give them 6 or 7 more top bars to build comb on, and we opened the third entrance.
“Humility is a forgotten value in today’s world. Our obsession with the image we have to project of ourselves is so strong that we have stopped questioning the validity of appearances and endlessly seek better ways to appear.” – Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill by Matthieu Ricard