Bees Have a New Home Soon
The bees are moving to the back field and more bees should arrive in a few weeks. The plan is to have 10 hives total. We currently have 4 hives. We keep selling out of honey from the farm so additional honey capacity will be good as the farm grows.
Good Family Times
One of our yearly traditions has been to prune the grape vines, blueberries and fruit trees at my mom’s house. We did that this week and had a good time. What a beautiful day. We had a good time as a family and accomplished a lot.
It is wonderful that the orchard, berries and vines produce an abundance that my mom can share with the community.
Blueberries after pruning
Cut down and removed trees that were shading the blueberries and fruit bearing trees
We removed a lot of excess vegetation in the blueberries
Grapevines that we are pruning
Pruned grape vines with a pile of limbs behind
I’m a mechanical engineer turned weekend farmer, so I’m just smart enough to know that there is a lot that I don’t know especially when it comes to farming, permaculture and food forests. I’ve been heavily influenced in my love of farming and permaculture by my Mom and Dad and also by people like 
Connie has her certificate in Sustainable Agriculture from CCCC. She really enjoyed the classes at the community college and learned a lot. The program was a mixture of classes and work on the school farm. What she learned has really added to our technical proficiency on the farm.