I am not a bee keeper. But, I am a new bbee keeper. Learning. Under the instruction of reading books and watching YouTube videos, I am learning. Slowly. It is amazing how much a little experience, mixed with some instruction, can open your eyes to the simplicity of small tasks. In years gone past we […]
Author archives: James
Feeling Down
It has been difficult this growing season to stay motivated about my peppers. We planted early, and the success was not evident. The peppers were small and yellow. No growth. Even after six weeks of planted time. The only good news was that the snails didn’t eat them. In this video I sing a sad […]
Fruit from February
Time passes by. Second by second things are changing. Imperceptible, but still passing us by. When we stop and look back, we see how things have changed; see what has passed by our eyes without noticing. Growing food is much like that. Day by day we check the plants have water, and light. We pull […]
The Whirlwind of Sheep
A few years ago we got two baby lambs for our home farm. They were cute, and fun, and everyone loved having them around. As they have grown larger, they have fallen out of favour with everyone… knocking over fences, chasing and head-butting children, eating plants. Really, they have been sheep and acting as they […]
The Flaming Blog
The Flaming Kitchen started as an idea many years ago. It has sat on the shelf for these past years, existing in word and thought only. Recently we started to farm some peppers, and the idea became viable to bring off the shelf, and bring it into the world.