Day 1. We have bees!! 4/15/16

I purchased 2 nucs to start. The bees came from Oregon, I picked them up from Bees in the Burbs in Maple Valley on 4/15 10am. When I drove them home to Bellevue it was about 55-degrees outside. To try to keep them cool while driving home I opened the sunroof and back windows and…

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Something About Shoes

There’s really something you can tell about a person by looking at their shoes. When I was young, I always loved getting new sneakers — for sure, I would run faster — “ya know what I mean?”  Here is a normal weekend view  – muddy, wet, and yes, stinky shoes. After this weekend, my hiking…

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Garden Calendar 2016

  Jan Even with such a warm winter, not much happening in Jan. However, my friend from work (Martine!), shared some good Pacific Northwest gardening tips. Here’s to Belgium hospitality with a bunch of inspiration! Here is how the garden started–a well used place in the yard, the entrance way to the pasture. Feb On the…

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Bee Calendar 2016

Jan Ordered my nucs. Beekeeping 101 class at Bees in the Burbs. Really fun to be around folks who want to play with bugs! Feb Beekeeping 201 class at Bees in the Burbs. For this one, suggestion to keep good logs of everything. Here at the Jons Glenn Farm, with a little help from my…

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Bloom Calendar 2016

In my last beekeeping class, the Prof suggested that we keep a calendar to log blooms. Jan Nothing blooming yet, but we’ve had another warm winter. Feb About 1 mile north of us, fields of Daffodils started blooming yesterday. But officially, in here at the Jones Glenn Farm, daffodils started to bloom 2/28. The cheery…

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Berries 2016

Berry Patches The weather here has been warm again this winter, so I’m baking on another early summer. Here are the patches as of February 2016. Raspberries I found a local farm called Spooner Farms to buy 50 new raspberry plants. Our original raspberries are summer bearing and the fruit is small. So, I decided…

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