The first of the Black Walnuts have begun to fall to the ground. Just about everyone in Ohio is familiar with the green, strong...

It was a beautiful August morning to harvest pears.

When you reach a certain age, you come to appreciate fine tools to help you complete a task. You appreciate their aesthetics and...

When you look out onto your local landscape you will begin to see a sea of yellow flowered wildflowers called Goldenrod. Every beekeeper...

Brother Adam was a Benedictine monk from the Buckfast Abbey, in the U.K. After a great honeybee die-off in the U.K., Brother Adam set off...

During the Middle Ages, newlyweds were given a full moon’s cycle (30 days) worth of mead (honey wine) as a gift. It was believed that...

Lorenzo Langstroth is the man who revolutionized the beekeeping world. He has a connection to Dayton, Ohio. Beekeeping for a thousand...

There is an old European custom that required the beekeeper of the family to inform the household’s bees of important events such as...

Bits and pieces of stone-age, Native American, projectile points found while gardening on a small plot of land. The plow, rototiller and...

Found these two sibling yearlings enjoying an afternoon in the orchard. We have had a baby deer born and reared in our orchard ever since...