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Archive for January, 2020
Harvest time soon!
05 years
by Amy
in Me and the bees!
We didn’t have the best Pohutukawa flowering this Christmas, for some reason the trees made more leaves than flowers but there were enough for the bees to make some honey! We are really excited to see what they have! You never know till you open the hive and see what the bees have done.
Because we harvest our Pohutukawa honey after Christmas we will have to send our honey to be tested for Tutin testing. Tute is a native plant which can grow in the far north, it’s poisonous, sometimes cows eat it and they die. In summer passion fruit vine hoppers make honeydew when they suck the sap from Tute and the bees can collect it, it won’t hurt bees but if people eat that honey they can be poisoned! So we will send ours to be tested to make sure its safe, each test costs about $50.00.
The kitchen! 12.12.2019
05 years
by Amy
in The HOUSE WE BUILT!
We are finally able to start building floors on the downstairs of our house! I started in the pantry, then we moved on to the actual kitchen room, I put the last board in the floor (I had to tap it in with the hammer).
Then we were ready to varnish, I can’t help with the varnishing because I’m allergic to the fumes, so I went and started cleaning in another room. We are so happy with our finished kitchen though! What do you think?
The last board in the kitchen floor!