Homesteading on the Homefront

Wanted to take a few seconds out of my day to post a bit about what's going on at the Homestead (besides the end of the school year hect...

 Do you see what I see?  I had to look it up, because I couldn't figure out what these eggs were.  SQUASH BUGS!  I purposely didn...

Every time we get into the hives, we inevitably have to take out some wax because the bees like to build in the most inconvenient of places....

This is the little lilac I purchase back in March.  It had blooms for awhile, then they died off, as lilacs do.  So I was surprised to se...

You might remember me mentioning the muskmelon that popped up out of nowhere in the compost pile.  This is what it looked like on May 11th...

I have lost track of how many butterflies have hatched.  Each of the kids brought a chrysalis to school, and we had several hatch here.  We ...

Last Friday, we got into the hives for the usual bi-weekly check.  The queen has a great brood pattern and things were looking good... there...