Category: Bees

• The Kitchen’s Garden Garden!

  The gardens this year have largely been a disappointment. Crops like the potatoes, cucumbers, zuchinni, butternuts, pumpkins, and beans have either refused to fruit or  curled up and died due to that extreme heatwave we had.  But the aubergine, beetroot and capsicum all in the drought resistant frog garden are doing very well. Now that…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 10, 2012

  Bees, Farming, Flower Garden, Sustainable farming, Vegetable Gardens, Vines and Wine

  cooler, old fashioned, rain, seedlings, tomatoes, vidal blanc grapes, wine

• Hairy MacLairy Babysits while Miss C Harvests Honey!

  Hairy MacLairy, the long suffering ram, was left to watch the Shush Sisters yesterday.  He is benevolent Uncle personified.. or ramified as the case may be.  So he took them over to visit with Queenie Wineti under the tree where they could play in the muck.   While I stole a couple of jars of…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 3, 2012

  Bees, Humour, Sustainable farming

  harvesting honey, hogs and sheep together, honey, new zealand, pigs and ram

• A Fat Farmy Day Drenched in Spray

  Mary’s Cat is being followed and bombed by barn swallows wherever she goes.  (Audrey close your eyes). Because these guys are about ready to take their first flights. They are so patient these little birds. Out-growing their nest and watching the milking from above twice a day.  Did I tell you that their nest is…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 17, 2012

  Bees, Life, Organic farming, Sustainable farming

  barn swallows, cats, fat pigs, fattening hogs, insecticide damage, life, pesticide damage

• Summer rhythm

  We are now finally settling into a summer rhythm. After all the births and the weanings and the schedules. The setting up and taking down and setting up again. the milking, the feeding,  the cooking and the gardening move in and out, giving and taking a little, but basically the days are settled  into a…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 14, 2012

  Bees, Farm Animals, Humour, Life, Sustainable farming

  cows, farm days, honey bees, muscles on arms, sheep, summer, summer rhythms

• Bees in the Heat

  Kind of a spooky dawn this morning. The haze has created this effect I suppose.  The only green in our landscape is the genetically modified crops but even they are beginning to curl up in the heat of the day.  When bees encounter very high temperatures they use a number of systems to cool the…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  July 7, 2012

  Bees, Life, Sustainable farming

  bees, bees in the heat, hot animals on the farm, hot pea hen, how to cool a bee hive