Tag: Beneficial species

Wintering Bees

Before you read "Wintering Bees", have you read "Getting Ready to Get…

Kim Flottum Kim Flottum

Preparing Bees for Winter: Getting Ready to Get Bees Ready For Winter

This was article supposed to be something about how honey bees and…

Kim Flottum Kim Flottum

Growing a Butterfly Garden: Host Plants to Attract Butterflies

Whether you just want to have lovely, colorful things flitting around in…

Kathy Kish Kathy Kish

Bees for Free

If you are new to, or interested in, beekeeping, you will eventually…

Andrew Botham Andrew Botham

Adventures of a Beekeeper’s Wife

“You are about to enter a whole new world,” the retired beekeeper…

Trendle Ellwood Trendle Ellwood

In Favor of a Naturalized Lawn

Early every spring as I drive into town I notice that people…

Trendle Ellwood Trendle Ellwood

Attracting Beneficials: Garden Good Guys

Whether you are a backyard gardener, an urban homesteader, or you run…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

The Magical World of Mycelium: Growing Mushrooms on the Homestead

Mushrooms, or mycelium, make good sense for us homesteaders.  They make good…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

We’re not Playing, ‘Possum: Opossums are Actually Good for the Homestead

My first up-close encounter with an opossum was one evening many years…

Jo Ann Abell Jo Ann Abell

The Lost Art of Beekeeping?

In 2010 the USDA uncapped their figures: 2009 yielded the lowest recorded…

Trendle Ellwood Trendle Ellwood

Garden Seeds, Honeybees, You, and Me

Every day as we read our newspapers, scan our internet forums, or…

Trendle Ellwood Trendle Ellwood

Snakes on the Homestead

Our fear of snakes seems almost primal.  Indeed, along with fear of…

Bonnie Lavigne Bonnie Lavigne

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