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The queen bee is piping in the hive

The Easiest Grilled Steak for Labor Day

Coop Dreams

We’ve broken ground!

Chicken Smitten (or, How the Chickens and I Ended Our Romance, but Remain Friends)

The chicks go outdoors

On the eve of liberation

Melons, melons, and more melons!

The runt’s first egg

Unbending gender; unladylike behavior in the coop; egging along; the weeds-and-infested-olives diet

Crisis in the coop!

Is it a hunk of quartz? A meteorite? No, it’s….

Our First Two Cheeses

Announcing Team Cheese

Looking for the Queen Bee

Our bees are home — and under attack!

In search of honey, Team Bee buzzes forth

Chicken ER

Finally, honey

The short, sad lives of drones

Salt endeavor #1

Tomatoes + basil = a match made in heaven

A tomato-lover’s favorite recipe

Honey from the honeycomb to the honey jar

Very Small Potatoes

Our chickens are molting, and they look ridiculous

Warm weather no bueno

Bottling our Chardonnay by hand … and mouth

Au natural wine: How a fellow blogger is making us wildly green with envy

Local Reading: A Garden on the White House Lawn?

The Nepalese lemons are pickling

Stick a cork in it—sealing our Chardonnay’s fate

Varroa mites are overtaking Veronica

Nugget in Paradise, Part II

Compost happens