Monthly Archives: March 2014

2 days of rain and 19 bee corpuses

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Ellie — Leave a comment

i hop-scotch out to the top bar hive this morning before heading into the office. it was drizzly and cold and the ground was mushy. the cloud cover had come right down to the grown. as I leaned over the…

Tagged with: bees in wet weather, Deformed Wing Virus, Topbar hives
Posted in Bees

new blue berries

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Ellie — Leave a comment

before I left for work I popped out to check on the new blue berries. surrounded by a makeshift deer fence they seem to be enjoying the rain. three could produce berries this year. but I’m ahead of myself. last…

Tagged with: blue berries, deer fence, pine needle mulch, raised beds
Posted in perennial crops

rain barrels and wood chips and raised beds

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Ellie — Leave a comment

weekend report 12/52 on Saturday I drove an hour and a half to take a rain barrel making class, connect with like-minded individuals and get a free rain barrel. it was sponsored the Watershed Program of the Butte Environmental Council,…

Tagged with: gardening, rain barrels, raised beds, water, wood chips
Posted in annual crops, Climate, Food Forest, Hugleculture, water harvesting

the bees need room!!

Posted on March 19, 2014 by Ellie — Leave a comment

thursday i scrambled home at lunch to work in the top bar hive; or at least move the follower board so the girls would have more room before the weather turned. the temperatures have been lovely during work hours and…

Tagged with: Topbar hives
Posted in Bees

the weekend warrior finds a weekend PDC

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Ellie — Leave a comment

i’m excited! Cathe’ Fish, a local permacultureist and master gardener, is offering a Permaculture Design Course that I can attend. i needed the timing, the price and the local to be just about perfect in order to pull off a…

Tagged with: Cathe' Fish, PDC
Posted in Permaculture