Archive for November, 2010

HOMEGROWN TRADITION

The Saturday after Thanksgiving we hosted our (think it’s) Sixth Annual “After Thanksgiving” gathering. New and old friends and this time around even a few of our front porch farm stand customers were invited to celebrate good food and good times.

TREE BEE TRAP

A nice brisk evening walk in the lower Arroyo Seco. Jordanne hangs a bee trap that Justin made to trap a few wild bees that are living in a sycamore trunk

GIVING THANKS

Our family has a lot to be grateful for & wishes all our readers and supporters a wonderful Thanksgiving

GIFT OF GIVING

“Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.” — John Wesley

Tis the season of giving gifts so please consider ways you can support our growing efforts and network of sites.

SNAPSHOTS OF THE GOOD LIFE

The days are shorter and certainly wet and colder! Much of the backyard garden is now white – not with snow but row covers. The weather’s turned quite chilly in the morning and we are doing our best to fend off the cold – bundling up.

HOMEGROWN COMMUNITY

It’s been a busy week – a good week with three community events. Jordanne & I kicked off community outreach with canning classes at a local high school.

BENEFIT CONCERT

We were happily surprised and extremely grateful to the The Ridgewood Boys of Kentucky who are holding benefit concert for Path to Freedom’s growing outreach.

MORE FREE BEES

With our bee colonies just barely hanging on (no thanks to varroa, aka vampire, mite) it was time to visit the wild “feral” hive in the Arroyo Seco that we’ve been passing on our weekly goat walks for over two (or more) years.

O VARROA

After 10 years of urban beekeeping (and near 30 years beekeeping experience), we’ve had it pretty easy peasey . But just as our hive count was expanding (and we were counting our honey flow) this month our hives suffered a terrible setback. Hmm, somehow this rings of a Biblical parable.

HOMESTEADER HYGIENE

Growing up in water and energy conservative household it never crossed our minds that our lifestyle wasn’t normal. A move to city and I found out that daily showers (and shoes – among other things) were a norm here in the city.