Well, we are considerably past the beginning of the season, and I am considerably behind in the posts that I wanted to put here, but I will try to catch up.
Here's a bullet-point list of items that I will be posting more about:
- A potato garden now exists with some 1,800 row feet of potatoes.
- New bees have arrived and new hives have been started.
- Topbar hives are beginning to appear around the place. How did that happen? (Much more later.)
- House additions and renovations are complete, including a garage that changes the look of the place entirely.
- Everything (except the bees) seemed to survive the winter, including the 17 semi-dwarf apple trees that we set out in November.
- I am becoming anti-apiary. I'll explain later.
- I read most of Gene Logsdon's The Contrary Farmer over the winter and feel well on my way to becoming a contrary farmer.
- Tractor-shopping is in my near future.
- Corn, beans, cucumbers, potatoes -- all up.
- Cardinals are off to an excellent start. Summer should be fun.
- Lots of unread books in the stack.
As I said, more later.
