by BBA | May 21, 2013 | Farm Happenings
I must say, every year it thrills us how fantastic friends can be. Shearing day can be a trying time, however, isn’t this what its all about? Hard work, hard play and the reward is an amazing fiber fluff of stuff! A few bumps at first (and as always) as we all...
by BBA | May 18, 2013 | Farm Happenings, From The BeeYard
Alisa is standing next to The Sunflower hive during late May. Girls are busy bringing in pollen. Hive inspection reveals several queen cells. This hive needed to create a queen. Sometimes that...
by BBA | May 9, 2013 | Farm Happenings, From The BeeYard
Bee packages. These are stacked and trucked in from Georgia. 3 pound package = approx. 10,000 bees. One of the girls riding shotgun on the way home from picking up her package.
by BBA | Apr 16, 2013 | Farm Happenings, From The BeeYard
Day One:So we decided to complicate our lives once again to add something quite exciting on the farm. Honey Bees! We met with a local beekeeper tonite to get our first hives… Bees are on order and due to arrive mid-May. We’ll be posting about the start up...
by BBA | Apr 1, 2013 | Farm Happenings
So you ask, where the heck is Spring? We’re asking the same thing! No matter what the weather-happening is, basically its April… and that means, planning planning planning. Here on the farm, we’re starting our spring cleaning… getting the barn...
by BBA | Nov 26, 2012 | Alpaca Yarn and Fibery Things, Farm Happenings, In The News
This year we’ve added another craft to our Holiday Open Farm Days… Basket weaving. Now you say, what the heck does that have to do with an alpaca farm? Well, baskets are used for many many purposes here on the farm, from displaying skeins of yarn, to...
