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21 Dec 2022 1 minute read 7 comments Hopeful Homesteading
Welcome to Hopeful Homesteading everyone. We are a couple in the Canadian Prairies looking to be as self sufficient as possible and focus on organic food and lifestyle. First, we have our welcoming video on Rumble. There is some good information a...
20 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Catontherun
Look, he doesn't have to do it of course, he can also do jobs on his boat or his car.He speaks in the language I neither understand nor speak and discusses in detail whether everything is right officials and translates in English. He doesn't have t...
16 May 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Dibbler
This morning I woke up fairly early, made myself a coffee while Sky and Elizabeth still slept, and sat for a moment behind the house enjoying the early morning heat. The sky was a clear deep blue with just a couple of clouds to the south, the sun...
9 Jul 2020 2 minute read 1 comment Solominer
The adult bees are done with their seasonal work, being out only from February through April. I look at their homes and discuss how it all went and what to expect next. We look at both the bee cubbies and the bee house. No signs of adult Mason Bees...
5 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Around where I live these bees emerge in late February. The time can vary in different places based on when temperatures rise above 55F (12C). In North Georgia this will occur early on in February or March. Winter is not usually done by then and som...
4 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Solominer
Watching the bees work on building their homes is entertaining to me. I watch them as they finish off a tunnel capping it off with a final cell of mud. In the first part of the video a bee can be seen laying down mud to seal off the larva they will...
1 Jul 2020 3 minute read 0 comments Solominer
I had a chance to explore a few acres of land up in northern Georgia. I was told by the land owner there are old beehives somewhere, she just pointed me in the general direction and I got to walking through the summer woods looking for the houses....
26 Jun 2020 2 minute read 2 comments Solominer
In this segment I add another bee house to the stack, this one specializes in collecting pollen. It has screens inside that the bees must pass through and when they do it rakes off a little bit of pollen. This pollen drops down into a tray I can col...
22 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
When I moved to Georgia I would see this evergreen plant in the forests and sometimes in peoples yards. I did not learn till years later that the berries it produces are edible. A follower of mine @goat-girlz mentioned they are indeed edible and can...
19 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Solominer
In my previous garden update post I showed off four Cherry trees, in this video we look at a smaller version of Cherry called "Bush Cherries". These plants reach a height of around six feet and bush out the sides real good. The Bush Cherries are sma...
