Part of our annual summer traditions are as follows: Watch the elder trees for flowering. Everywhere. This is area-wide ~ when we drive, hike, etc. Agonize over how many flower heads we can pick without

Installing bees from a Langstroth nuc into a Topbar hive. Today we get our first ever honey bees! Except somehow we need to make them fit from a rectangular Langstroth hive box into the more triangular,

G'Day Aussies!! I've been on Steemit for over a year now and I've been a bit neglectful of the whole 'Team Australia' thing - no idea why, just I guess I wasn't too active on Discord and a lot of Aussies

November is coming to a close already! The winter, or summer, months are nearly upon us. I hope you enjoy what we have for you in this week's newsletter. Things happening in the community. The @naturalmedicine

Join us as we dive in for a look at how our hive is doing 4 weeks after installing a nucleus colony into our Top Bar Hive. I'll also show you how I made a very simple DIY sugar feeder to supplement our

A new week and a new month. November already and 2019 is heading rapidly to its close. The years seem to be flying by of late! Or is that just me getting old? Despite winter closing in, in the busiest

Today we inspected our Top Bar Hive, one week after installing bees. Find out how they have fared and we decide if we need to supplementally feed them or not.

I'll show you how we, as first time honey bee keepers, transferred our first colony from a 5 frame langstroth nucleus box to our topbar hive. Let us know if you have any questions.

Wow! 17 entries this week. Thank you for participating! How To Enter this contest (read to bottom to see how to get a BONUS ENTRY) Create a post of your own (on your own Steemit blog) sharing a Daddykirbs

Hey guys, today I'd like to share with you one of my current favourite videos put out by YouTuber and Steemian, @daddykirbs. This particular videos details how he went about building some fencing to keep

Let's Do It Again, SBD Giveaway! We had really good participation last time so why not do it again. We will still have 2 winners split 50% of the SBD made on this post. To Play You must Comment,upvote

Some time ago I wrote about why you might want to consider keeping quail if you can't keep chickens. This raised quite a few questions, so I thought I'd go into more detail on them. There are various types

Predators are a fact of life for almost every homesteader, no matter which part of the world they hail from. They can vary in form from tiny spiders that pose a very real threat to the homesteader, to

A look at some of the things that have changed since our last video, and some of the things we are aiming for in 2018. Follow us on Facebook - Follow us on Instagram - Follow us on Steemit - Music by

One perk when it comes to growing your own food is that you can gather some of those fruits, vegetables and even flowers from the garden and turn it into wine. It’s satisfying to share a bottle of home

Weekly Homesteading Newsletter (WHN) - Issue #23 Date: February 11, 2018 - February 18, 2018 Introduction Welcome to the official Weekly Homesteading Newsletter (#WHN)! This newsletter will be released

Meet Kuku, our gorgeous female Eclectus parrot. Kuku means chicken in Swahilli, or at least that's what Google translate tells us. It's hard to get her talking on camera as she usually only talks when

We experience some tough times with our farm animals here at Duck Ponds Farm and begin to question what we are doing. On a brighter note, we have received a lot of rain that has really recharged the farm.

Part 3 in a series that shows how we keep and utilise our Native Stingless bees. This third video shows how we go about splitting one of our boxed native bee hives. Things don't always go as planned, as

Come see what's new and what's changed with the animals on our farm. Follow us on Facebook - Follow us on Instagram - Follow us on Steemit - Music by www.bensound.com ▶️ DTube ▶️ IPFS