Tag Archives: self sufficiency
Things that sting (getting started in bee keeping Ukranian style)
My ‘Ukranian’ bee-keeping finally worked. Put an empty hive with some honeycomb above a queen excluder and full framed brood box in open space in woods at start of summer. Now have active healthy colony. At the end of … Continue reading
The case for working with your hands NYT
Check out this Country Living Link Reminds me of the (rather woolly) 70′s philosophical mainstay – “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance” and not just because that is the authors thing. It seems what is really under discussion is … Continue reading
The Joys of Septic Tanks
When we first moved in over two decades ago, we could not locate the septic tank, a hunt through a jungle of brambles in search of sleeping beauty eventually found a stinking bog where foul waste from the ablutions of … Continue reading
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