This week on the farm, we harvested honey from our honeybee hives! That's right, the delicious liquid gold flowed into quart after quart jar leaving us all with a slight sugar rush and feeling like a heat stroke was imminent. Why? Let's just say you can't press honeycomb without heat and without getting the honey on your fingers. This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure … [Read more...] about Harvesting Honey with Kids
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Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books
Life on the farm is very different from the hustle and bustle of Atlanta! Beekeeping, for example, isn't something that we saw much of...if any...in our old town. I'm sure it was there. We just didn't know anyone that did it. Here on the farm uncle Joe and his uncle Johnny have honey bees! They have taken my son and I under their wing and are teaching us everything they know. Check out one of … [Read more...] about Our Beekeeping Adventure Plus Our Favorite Bee Books
Our Week in Review
Welcome to another "Week in Review" here at Nourishing My Scholar. I am happy to report that our daughters night terrors have eased up this week and have been replaced with 3am wake ups that involve deep, thought provoking questions like...."what happens to the animals in the desert if all of the cactus were to die?"...true story. Sleep deprivation is not our friend. Coffee, however, has … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review
Welcome to another "Week in Review" here at Nourishing My Scholar. We've had a bit of a challenging week here. Our three year old's night terrors have been leaving us adults exhausted. Our son, too, has been overly excitable and out of sync. We've found that this happens more when our schedules change, but sometimes we can not pin point exactly why these types of weeks happen. So we are … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review
Our Week in Review: Including Butterflies & Sharks
Welcome to Our Week in Review! This review is actually two weeks combined. We've been so busy the last two weeks (gardening, preserving food, farm animals, homeschool, reviews, ect.) that I am only now getting this post up. It's funny how farm life has that feast or famine feel to it. You're either sitting around twittling your thumbs...which I never do, because there is always something … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review: Including Butterflies & Sharks
4 Reasons We Got Goats
We bought Nigerian Dwarf goats! This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. 4 Reasons We Got Goats Well here we are, we've been on the farm for three months now and guess what? This week, we bought goats! You see, a few months back we met a man named Harold. He's the goat guy around these parts and he comes highly … [Read more...] about 4 Reasons We Got Goats
Our Week in Review: Including Catching Fireflies and a Birthday Celebration
The days have lengthened and we have finally left behind the coolness of spring. What do you do to celebrate the return of summer? Catch Fireflies and drink Root-beer Floats of course! This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. We waited until twilight to make our yummy ice cream and root-beer floats. Since we planned … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review: Including Catching Fireflies and a Birthday Celebration
Our Week in Review: Including Outside Exploration, Reading & Snakes
What do you do when you have gloriously beautiful days filled with sunshine and the songs of birds? You spend as much of your time out of doors as possible! This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. The cow pastures were a go to spot for us this week as they are quite lovely and Papa had some work to do with the … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review: Including Outside Exploration, Reading & Snakes
Our Week in Review: Including Mending Fences, Baking Pies, and This Week’s Reading List
Welcome to our week in review! We have been living on my sisters farm now for nearly two months and I think we have finally found our rhythm! Farm life has so much to offer our children as they connect with nature and the animals all around them. This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure statement for more information. This week started off with … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review: Including Mending Fences, Baking Pies, and This Week’s Reading List
Our Week in Review: Including Gardening, Chickens, and Reading
Welcome to our week in review! We have been living on my sisters farm now for over a month and I think we are finally starting to find our rhythm! Farm life has so much to offer our children as they connect with nature and the animals all around them. Back in March (about two weeks before we moved to the farm) Uncle Joe hatched 24 Bantam Ameraucana chicks. Since arriving, the … [Read more...] about Our Week in Review: Including Gardening, Chickens, and Reading