New Chicks Get Their First Taste Of Outside
3 week old chicks are figuring out how to navigate the ladder to get outside for the first time. Ben, The Chicken Whisperer!
Top Bar Hive Check at 6 Weeks
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.
Monday Meme – More Humility… Less Pride
“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
Monday Meme – Another Way To View Freedom
“To be free is to be master of oneself. For many people such mastery involves freedom of action, movement, and opinion, the opportunity to achieve the goals they have set themselves. This conviction locates freedom primarily outside oneself and overlooks the tyranny of thoughts. Indeed it is commonplace in the West that freedom means being
Monday Meme – The Diminishing Returns Of Seeking Out Pleasure
“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side-effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.” – Man’s Search For Meaning by Victor Frankle
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25 Newest Members To The Maitri Homestead
25 day old chicks are getting settled into their temporary home. We will move them into the new chicken coop in a week or two.
Monday Meme – Competition…You’ve Got To Be Perfect!
“There is an American doctor who wrote about the results of competition on his life. He said he went to medical school in Switzerland, and he said there was a fairly large contingent of Americans at that school. He said some of us went into shock when we realized that there were no grades, and
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DIY Honey Bee Feeder For Top Bar Hives
Since our new honey bees don’t have any food we have to supply it for them initially. Instead of buying a plastic feeder we found a nice video explaining how we could make our own bee feeder from Philip Chandler, here. The roof of the hive is removed showing the top lid for the bee feeder
Carpenter Bee Trap
I am not particularly fond of trapping bees, but these carpenter bees are wreaking havoc on our cabin. Last year the Carpenter Bees made Swiss cheese out of the soffits on the cabin. My dad made a very slick Carpenter Bee trap that I hung right under the still damaged soffit. The first bee of