Google the term ‘chicken hawk’ and you’ll find a handful of varying definitions. For instance, chicken hawk can refer to someone in the public eye who fervently supports war but actively avoided service. It can be used to describe a person who spends an inordinate amount of time trying to get stuff for free. Or, when someone who decides [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Winter chores in the hive
The weather is definitely autumnal around here. Veronica’s beehive is sporting a snazzy entrance reducer to reduce the possibility of robbing as the neighborhood bees search out unprotected honey for their winter stores. And we’ve got work to do to prepare our hives before winter descends. Our checklist goes something like this: 1. Do a mite count. We did. Veronica [...]
Do, re, MEAD, fa, so, la, ti, do…
The first round of fermentation for our mead is done, and I am feeling great about it! We racked our honey-wine for the first time the other week, meaning we siphoned off the vibrant clear mead into a new carboy leaving the nasty looking dead yeast cells and the mysterious brown fleck at the bottom of the old one. Vanessa [...]
