Beekeeping The good news…the bees are doing great!  The bad news…Mark’s allergies are just terrible.  It appears the honey remedy did not work.  In Mark’s defense, this has been one…

Beekeeping We finally got our new bees on May 7th.  The boys and I headed up to Coeur d’Alene on April 23rd to get the bees (1 1/2 hour drive…

Wetzel home I know that this post is coming out in May but I have something important to say and just did not feel that I was ready to talk…

Here is some information and resources that I gathered at the Financial Fitness for Farmers class that I attended March 11th.  Each of us were given a copy of this…

Idaho is the Gem State Here is some information about star garnets from www.gemselect.com: Star garnet is an unusual form of garnet…Star garnets are so rare that to date they…

Beekeeping As I had reported a few weeks ago, the bees did not make it through the winter.  The big question was “Should we take the honey?”  I really struggled…

The past couple of weeks, I attended 2 workshops that were sponsored by Rural Roots. Rural Roots mission is to support and enhance sustainable agriculture and local food systems in…

In the Field Well, obviously, I am not in the field yet but getting ready for it.  I placed my sunflower seed order today.  I will still be growing at…

Beekeeping As you can probably guess from the title of this blog, our bees have died.  I know they were alive in December because we saw some dead ones outside…

Business Plan… This is going to be a short (or long) post…I guess it depends how you look at it.  I am posting the business plan.  If you take the…