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Sheryl Rudd
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Welcome To
Balltown Bee Farm
June 7-
June 28, 2010
The shop
and rabbitry are
coming
along beautifully. The guys who are building for us have taken
off to work another job for a couple of weeks, then will come
back to finish. We plan on doing
the exterior ourselves. When all is complete, we'll hold an open
house one weekend ... if you need construction done, call us for
their names and contact info. They've done great!
This is a
great time of year for the garden. We've had radishes, carrots,
beets, salad, chard, kale broccoli and herbs.
The
shiitakes are also really coming on. The bush beans are
blooming, so we should have those soon, as well.
We might
not get a lot of spring (dark) honey this year. We missed the
window a bit - didn't have the bees quite as built up as we
needed - and the poplar bloom was not that terrific. Rain also
didn't help. That said, we are hoping for a big sourwood bloom.
Hey, that's what farming is about, right? You win some and lose
some.
Quintin's
niece, Daisy, went back home to Colorado. She was a huge, and
fun, help at the markets. We miss her already - it was
nice to have a kid playing again in the creek and woods. Quintin
and Daisy's father, Bert, did the same when they were her age.

The real
reason we are building the shop. Just to keep Argo dry.
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Local dollars

If anyone needs any lumber,
just give Ralph Morgan a call. He's out on Old Settlement road by
the river - a super nice guy with a great lumber mill!
586-9717. Remember to spend your money locally!

Weekly at Balltown Bee Farm:
Kelley
has some problems with honey in the beeyard
Quintin's blog on the
garden ...
And Quintin's
two new
Rural Notes column on
the right tool for the job and being sick in the middle of the
season.
Receive
our weekly updates by email.
See a
slideshow of the yurt.

Tink hard at
work with the shiitakes
Need a recipe for grits or
cornbread? check out our recipe
page!
This
is a yearlong calendar of our seed-starting and planting dates.
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Events
- Friday,
June 11: We
will be at the
Swain County Farmers Market. It will be on Fridays from 9
a.m. to 1 p.m. in the parking lot next to Fred's. Swing on by
and say "hey"!
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Saturday, June 12:
Jackson County Farmers Market. We are there from 9 a.m. to noon.
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Wednesday, June 16:
We will be
at the Cashiers farmers market at the rec park from noon 'til 5
p.m..
- Friday,
June 18:
We will be back in Bryson City at the Swain County Farmers
Market.
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Saturday, June 19:
Jackson County Farmers Market. We are there from 9 a.m. to noon.
Tink will be batching it- so stop by and say "hey".

Tink
busy harvesting.
Our friend
and budding new beekeeper, Krista Robb, wrote a very insightful
paper on bees- it's really worth a read!
click here to check it out.
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