Running a Muddy Trail
Blooming & Bees
{ 03:27, 6 May 2008 }
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It is that time of the year, when we are eating the leaves of plants, not the fruits, and maybe the flowers of plants if we're lucky or knowledgable. Our herbs that made it through the winter are thriving in the land of all-other-plants-are-but-tiny-sprouts. They have all the sunshine to themselves. And across the Appalachian mountains, all the small apiaries are sending out their packages of bees!I ordered them last year, two packages of Russian bees. They didn't come and they didn't come and they didn't come, mostly due to tough weather conditions last spring. So I put the delivery off till this year and I'm at the top of the list and the bees are in the post right now. I should get to pick them up tomorrow, and we will once again, and hopefully forever onwards, have bees.
We're entering a new era in this area: the farmers market is starting next week -- in MAY. The market has existed for 30 years, and has always opened in mid-July. But with the way things are going in this crazy world, that is about to change. Or at least we're trying it out this year. We're starting in May, and going through November, meaning that the market season is now long enough to make it worthwhile for a farmer to actually spend some quality time working on his garden and tending to her vegetables. We've been handing out flyers and pamphlets in hopes of getting enough customers to the market that it might develop into an actual economic opportunity for small farmers in the area. Imagine, actually being able to make a financial contribution to your family by selling at market.
Its a fairly normal situation in many parts of this country, but has not been the case around here. We will see if we can get the ball rolling.
In the meantime, we have blueberry blossoms. And I just don't have the heart to pick them all off once again. Some will have to serve as trial berries for this year. yum.
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