Clare | Curbstone Valley

May Garden Update: Part II

by Clare | May 27, 2011 | Farm Blog, Flora and Fauna, Native Plants, Natives

For our 200th blog post we’re celebrating by focusing on the bounty of native spring flowers in bloom in the garden. To see so many different native plants in bloom here this spring makes us feel as if all the hours spent weeding, and clearing debris, are really...

May Garden Update: Part I

by Clare | May 23, 2011 | Farm Blog, Garden, Vegetables

It’s been all about the bees lately, and soon it will be all about our new greenhouse that recently arrived, in a zillion boxes, that needs to be unpacked, assembled, and installed. Before we get too distracted with greenhouse construction over the next few...

For Every Bird a Nest

by Clare | May 20, 2011 | Farm Blog, Flora and Fauna, Native Wildlife

Last week I was out in the orchard, pulling weeds, and startled someone in our ‘Flavor Delight’ Aprium tree. Not thinking much of it, I went back to weeding. Throughout the afternoon though I noticed a rather drab bird darting in and out of the branches. Finches…...

Hive Inspection: Queen Cage Removal, and Moving the Afterswarm

by Clare | May 16, 2011 | Farm Blog, Honeybees

This weekend we needed to inspect all four hives for a variety of reasons, but the two hives with the highest priority were the new hives containing the bees from the packages we installed last week, as it was time to remove the Queen cages. Package Hives The Rosemary...

An Update on Jenny’s Eggs

by Clare | May 13, 2011 | Farm Blog, Turkeys

Well, it’s Friday the 13th, and it’s Fowl Friday. You can already tell where this is going, can’t you? As much as we love to share our successes, life on the farm doesn’t always go quite the way we intend. It’s been a difficult spring...