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Welcome To Balltown Bee Farm
March 10,
2010
We'll be
at
Eric's Fresh Fish Market
in Sylva from 9 a.m. until
noon on Saturday for the
farmers
market. If you
want greens (kale, mustard and senposai), sunchokes,
horseradish, carrots, please consider calling and
pre-ordering. Or, we'll check our
email Friday morning.
Please let us know before 9 a.m. - we have a limited supply of
everything. Quintin is bringing the back-ordered seeds from
Fedco, and Ron Arps will put together another Fedco order in
case you forgot anything. On the farm-front, Kelley and our
friend Bob
planted 100 pounds of Kennebec potatoes this
 week; Quintin and
Bob hauled mulch and manure. Kelley also volunteered at the
Smoky Mountain Beekeepers' Bee School.
Steven Beltram, a fellow vendor from the Jackson Co. Farmers
Market, was there learning all about bees. He looks very
serious, doesn't he? In the garden, Quintin planted carrots,
radishes, broccoli, cabbages, creasy greens (a new one for us,
Jane Brown likes them).
(click on
thumbnails to enlarge)
A
praying mantis egg-sack on
George's and Elizabeth's Fetter Bush.
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Weekly here at
Balltown Bee Farm:
Kelley's blog
on the beeyard ...
Quintin's blog on the
garden ...
We finally
finished the woodshed. Read about it in Quintin's
Rural Notes, the column she writes
for four area newspapers.
Feel
free to pre-order plants so Quintin knows how many to start.
Here's a partial list of what we'll
have, plus an update on what we are planting now
in the garden ...
Don't know what to do with
sunchokes or horseradish? check out our recipe
page!
This
is a yearlong calendar of our seed-starting and planting dates.
We had our
heritage, non-GMO hickory cane corn milled.
Get
your cornmeal and grits now!
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