Goodbye to the bees

We gave all of our beekeeping equipment to a neighbor. It was sad but it was time. After the bear smashed the hive, I hadn't started a new hive. Part of it is me cutting back on activities that I can't do with the kids. It's pretty much impossible to work the bees while taking care of the kids, and I already have too many demands on my kid-free time, so this was something that goes, at least for now. Maybe when the kids are bigger I will do it again. I really liked keeping bees (though I love having kids way more!)

Trying out new things and then cutting back is also part of developing the farm into a workable enterprise. Lately we have been realizing that what we really like doing, and what makes the most sense for us on a number of levels, is concentrate on growing vegetables and on selling them locally, mostly directly to customers, for as long a season as possible. We like meeting people, we like doing markets, we love the CSA. So we are dropping the seedling sale, for example, in order to concentrate on early tomatoes and other early veggies.