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Chad Armentrout
- Aug 26, 2019
- 1 min
Fine Tools
When you reach a certain age, you come to appreciate fine tools to help you complete a task. You appreciate their aesthetics and...
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Chad Armentrout
- Aug 26, 2019
- 1 min
Goldenrod
When you look out onto your local landscape you will begin to see a sea of yellow flowered wildflowers called Goldenrod. Every beekeeper...
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Chad Armentrout
- Aug 14, 2019
- 1 min
Brother Adam and the Buckfast Honeybee
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...
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Chad Armentrout
- Aug 9, 2019
- 1 min
The Honeymoon
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...
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Chad Armentrout
- Aug 8, 2019
- 2 min
Native Son
Lorenzo Langstroth is the man who revolutionized the beekeeping world. He has a connection to Dayton, Ohio. Beekeeping for a thousand...
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Chad Armentrout
- Aug 8, 2019
- 1 min
Telling the Bees
There is an old European custom that required the beekeeper of the family to inform the household’s bees of important events such as...
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Chad Armentrout
- Jul 15, 2019
- 1 min
Projectile Points
Bits and pieces of stone-age, Native American, projectile points found while gardening on a small plot of land. The plow, rototiller and...
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Chad Armentrout
- Jul 3, 2019
- 0 min
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Chad Armentrout
- Jun 26, 2019
- 1 min
Orchard Visitors
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...
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