Monthly Archives: February 2009

Free downloadable guides to raising chickens and honeybees; making wine, beer, vinegar, cheese, salt, and olive oil; and growing crops in your back yard

  Four of our chicks at about two weeks old, back in August of 2007. If you’ve been enjoying our blog posts about our various one-block feast projects, and don’t yet know about our downloadable how-to guides for each, check them out by clicking on the one that interests you. The Guides: How to Raise Chickens How to Make Beer [...]

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Malting our grain

The next time you take a sip of beer, ponder the process of the extraordinary journey it takes from seed to suds. The whole process is a series of procedures targeted to one end product, beer. It is indeed a long and tedious process, and Team Beer knows this first hand. One vital segment in making beer is a stage [...]

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Drone brood and mites give us a surprise

  This week, following Randy Oliver’s advice from last week, we prepared to kill the brood in Veronica and treat once again with formic acid, understanding that if we didn’t take this drastic step the hive might be doomed to fail against the mites. We first wanted to get a mite % of infestation to be sure the treatment was [...]

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Homemade butter for a winter feast (it’s easy)

Just buzz cream in a food processor   As crops for our winter one-block feast get bigger, we’re getting serious about the payoff: dinner! And to go with all the vegetable-centric dishes we’ve been dreaming up, we’ve gotta have good bread and butter. Wheat we know about—we grew it for making beer. As for the cow, we don’t have her [...]

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