News: Garden, Nursery
New Stall at Mountainherbs!
Our new stall is nearly finished (Don’t look at the picture it is several days old..)! Once the rain stops and I actually get some plants in the stall you definitively have to have a look. It is the old stall from Sally’s shop combined with pallet wood. Because the winter seems to remain mild, … Read more
Dreaming a Herbal Botanic Garden
I really really prefer selling to a person rather than stuffing my plants in a parcel, trying to max out Australia post and convince the ladies at the local post office that my dripping parcels do not contain chemicals or anything contagious. It is so much simpler and I can give you much bigger plants … Read more
Blogging, winter, an excuse and my first sweet potato harvest
There is a good thing about the cold season, I can spend much more time on the computer than usual. And goodness me I found out that my blogs got comments, better said, I found out how to look at them! I am so sorry for never answering the comments so far – but now … Read more
Our Very First Honey Harvest
What would some inexperienced beekeepers do without good advise? Josef came over and told us that it’s time to harvest honey together with an extractor and the electric capping knife. The rest was rather undramatic, Michal got stung only five times, the day was stinking hot and the honey flowed out nicely. We let it … Read more
Another Beeswarm
How to end up with more hives:
Our Plant Sale, a Bee Swarm and Bee Stings as Medicine
It was a great open day!