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10/19/2026

The Walkertown Fall Festival was a little wet, a lot windy and very cold (the bee even had to wear a sweater!) but the community turned out anyway! It was successful despite the weather.

I appreciate every one who made it out and was able to come by our tent (whether anything was bought or not). The support means a lot for all small farmers.

I'm not sure if there will be any more events for me this year but I'll be sure to post here if there is another one. I do still have some honey left.

Next item of business is pig drop off in a few weeks and then getting ready for Thanksgiving--or, as my husband who doesn't care for turkey calls it, Steaksgiving. 😄

10/14/2026

Y'all make plans to come check out the Walkertown Fall Festival this Saturday!! It's right next to the post office off Main Street--you can't miss it.

I was going to be solo but the dancing bee had a change of plans so she'll be there too. We'll have lots of honey products, beeswax candles and homemade jam.

10/04/2026

Productive weekend but I still had time to relax a bit. Some stuff takes a bit of downtime during the process.

Started off making some soap--has to cool overnight. Rendered some lard--has to simmer in the crockpot for several hours. Made some apple butter--has to cook overnight, also in the crockpot. (Handy to have more than one).

Today made several jams and finished the apple butter. Getting items ready for the Walkertown Fall Festival in 2 weeks so also poured some more beeswax candles. Put a fresh ham roast in yet another crockpot (LOL) since I'm still trying to empty the freezers.

I cleaned the inside of the chicken coop while John used the tractor to clean out the roost area. We're getting about 20 eggs a day but they are still mostly little ones. The rooster is getting a little big for his britches--he may end up having to go in the freezer if he wants to start attacking people. He's lucky he flew at my legs and not my head or he's already be there. 😳

09/27/2026

We had a busy but productive weekend. The Fall Farm event at Blooming Acres Farm was pretty successful for us. Our next event will be at the Walkertown Fall Festival on Oct 17. Make plans now to come check it out!

In my continuing effort to empty the freezers, I came home from the event, and used the last of the chickens I had in the freezer to make some stock. I pressure canned it today and got 32 pints.

We needed to check the bees and someone John knows wants to get bees next year so he came to check out the process. We didn't get to check all of them (due to the wind today and the robbing by the bees) but the ones we looked at are doing well.

After the bees, I went to collect eggs. We got 14 today which is the most in one day so far. Then we cleaned out the run and put some mulch down.

Lastly we had to feed and water the pigs. They have just over 6 weeks left with us. It's hard to tell how much they have grown in pictures so here are a couple of videos. The first is at the end of March when we brought them home. The second was today--the 2nd pig John scratches is actually the same pig in the first video.

Hope y'all have enjoyed this pretty weekend!

09/25/2026

Plan to come to Blooming Acres Farm in Walnut Cove tomorrow! I'll be there with my friend, the dancing bee, and will have lots of honey and jam available.

09/20/2026

More chickens are starting to lay now--we got 10 eggs just today. But they are little baby eggs for now.

So what do you do when you have lots of baby eggs to use AND you're trying to empty the freezers before the pigs get processed? You make a sausage, egg and cheese casserole--but I had to use 18 eggs since they are little. Added bonus, now John has breakfast made for most of the week. I also used a pork shoulder to make some pulled pork for dinner tonight.

Had some strawberries and cranberries in the freezer so I made a couple batches of Christmas Jam (strawberry, cranberry, orange, allspice, cloves and cinnamon). Tuesday may be the first day of Fall 🍁 but it was smelling like Christmas in here yesterday! 🎄Also made more beeswax taper candles since I'll be at an event next Saturday.

The pigs enjoyed some pumpkins. The bees got fed also since it hasn't rained for a while.

I still had bunches of eggs left so I tried a recipe for "12 yolk cake". And since I had a bunch of egg whites, I also made an angel food cake. I need to get a full sized cake pan though.

Mark your calendars--this Saturday, 9am-3pm. Lots of vendors, Highland cows, U-pick flowers, classic cars, food trucks AND the dancing bee!!! Come see us--I'll have honey, honeycomb, honey gift sets, beeswax candles, various jams and jelly, cowboy candy (candied pickled jalapenos). I'm sure I'm forgetting something so come by and check us out.

Blooming Acres Farm, Walnut Cove, Saturday 9am-3pm

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09/11/2026

Two of the girls laid their first eggs today!!! 🎉 One was in a nesting box, the other was on the ground next to the ramp into the coop. I guess she couldn't get inside in time. LOL

09/08/2026

Happy Labor Day!!
Most of Saturday was spent picking up some logs for the sawmill from the dancing bee's new home in Fancy Gap.

I need to make room in the freezers so Sunday was tomato sauce day. Got 22 pints put in the pantry (plus another jar that was only 3/4 full so we had that for dinner tonight). I also dehydrated the skins to make tomato powder. This can be added to dishes for thickening and flavoring but I mainly use it for making tomato paste--equal parts water and powder.

The chickens are 18 weeks old today. They should start laying eggs any day now--I keep checking! Mr. Rooster enjoys lording over the girls. LOL

John got a new hose to fill the pigs water holes quicker. They seemed to be enjoying it. Just a little over 2 months to go until their date with the processor...

08/31/2026

The Tractor Supply vendor event went pretty well on Saturday. Definitely more foot traffic than the last time but we didn't have to reschedule due to the weather at the last minute.

The next event we will be at is the Fall Farm Even at Blooming Acres Farm in Walnut Cove on Sept 26 from 9am-3pm. There'll be other vendors, food trucks, flowers and Highland cows! Make plans now to come on out. The dancing bee will be flitting about and taking pictures with anyone who wants one.

The neighbors had a tree get struck by lightning last year and it died. They had it taken down on Saturday and they gave John part of the trunk for the sawmill. I wonder if it will look any different when it's cut up due to the electricity? 🤔 I'm also wondering if that monster log is going to fit on the sawmill! LOL

We checked the bees yesterday and took off any supers that were left on there. The swarm John had collected from the horse farm a couple of months ago has absconded within the last week or so. (That's when they just leave. If they'd died, there would habe been dead bees left. No bees, just gone). So we are down to 18 again. For the most part, all of them were looking really good. We have a couple small ones that may struggle to get through winter but we'll help as much as we can.

In one hive we found 2 queens! We saw one little one that I had noted before but there was eggs and brood so we thought maybe she was just small. But 2 frames over we saw a big, fat queen! When we went to remove the smaller queen, John said it looked like one of her wings was messed up. She probably couldn't fly to mate then (which is why she was small). They also probably let her live since she wasn't producing much queen pheramone since she was not mated.

After checking the bees, we smoked 2 of the meat chickens we raised and processed a couple months ago. It was sooo delicious! We had one last night and have one for different meal tonight.

08/28/2026

Come see us at the Tractor Supply in Walkertown tomorrow, Saturday Aug 29, from 10am-2pm.

We'll have various honey products--bottles, honey comb, gift sets and honey sticks.

We'll also have pickles: I'm out of plain dill but have some plain bread&butter (sweet), "zesty" bread&butter and horseradish garlic dill. Almost forgot!--have some chow chow too

Plus some jam, jelly and butter: apple butter, apple pie jam, apple c***r jelly, cherry jam, rosemary peach jam, blueberry jam and strawberry banana (only a hint of banana, mostly strawberry)

AND the dancing bee!!! 🐝🍯😁

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