How To Capture a Bee Swarm With Kirk Anderson
...nd not to be aggressive when they swarm (they have no honey to protect). To see more how-to videos featuring Kirk visit the video page of the Backwards Beekeepers....
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Picture Sunday: A Table Made From Election Signs
...Now that the election is over it’s time to make some tables. Via the Homesteading/Survivalism Facebook page....
Picture Sundays: Why Cats Purr
...Some solid science here. Not sure where this comes from, but spotted it on Doug Harvey’s Facebook page....
A Purple Dragon Carrot
...ets. John clearly has more important things to do than updating a Facebook page. My dragon carrots grew without a hitch in our “guerrilla” parkway garden. As you can see from the photo, the carrot has a deep purple color reminiscent of the domesticated carrot’s wild ancestors, which were probably tamed in what is now Afghanistan. Wikipedia identifies the purple hue of these carrots as anthocyanin a possible source of antioxidants and a common pigm...
Perennial Vegetables
...nnial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, A Gardener’s Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles . We’ve got a few of the species Toensmeier mentions: artichoke, prickly pear cactus, stinging nettles, crosnes (more on those in another post) and goji berries. Edible Perennials contains growing information for each species offering something for every climate in North America. Up to now many of these plants were hard to find, but g...