Friday, March 13, 2009

The Honey Factory

This is our "bee yard" as it is called by beekeepers. It is 49 degrees today so they are staying in and keeping warm. Bees keep the inside of the hive a toasty 95 degrees no matter what the temperature outside by getting in a tight ball and buzzing. The Red Maple trees and several fruit trees are starting to bloom so they have been busy but today staying warm is job one!
Posted by Matthew at 1:07 PM

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Welcome!

Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).