Farmer Ed

Rows are ~200' long

Besides being very productive they produce small squash that are very tender.

We had real good luck grafting this year... the weather was wet and cool.

I use the cleft graft method on apple trees because its easy.  After inserting the scion wood into the verticle cut in the root stock, I wrap the area with rubber tape to keep it from moving in the wind. 

Notice the blooms on this graft... if the branch had been left with the donor tree it would have produced apples this year.

Ben out in the pasture fooling around with our tame calf that we bottle fed last winter.

Ben making sure the heifer isn't a bull

pregnant Abby is on a mission to take care of that itch.

The boys were out trying to dispatch some rabbits that were using our melon field for a salad bowl and they stumbled upon a swarm.  It was an easy capture they were close to the ground and it was cool morning.  Bees normally don't sting when in the swarm ball but when I poured them into the hive they let me know there are always exceptions!

Giving the bees a new home in the Kenyan Top Bar Hive we built last winter. 

June 11 as you can see they have made it a home...

The golden cells below and in the center are bee brood... 

Uncapped honey is the light yellow cells and the dark cells are pollen

We found this little slidr turtle on the road this morning and thought it was neat.