This is the time of year that our camellias bloom. Continue Reading →
February 26, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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February 24, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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Processing Chickens…the Process
This blog post is all about processing chickens. We plan to add meat chickens to our farm and were curious to see what kind of methods and equipment other small flock farmers are using to process their chickens. There really is no way around it….getting our healthy, pasture raised chickens to the dinner table involves dispatching them quickly and humanely, and is the last (and very important) step in producing a high quality product that you will come to us for again and again. (I won’t go into all the factory farming and mass-production slaughtering issues here. There are plenty of videos out there for you to Google. Suffice it to say that chickens raised on our farm and processed with compassion by our own hands will ensure a very high quality product for our friends’ dinner tables.) Continue Reading →
February 22, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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Local Stores, Your Food, and “HNYB” Apiary on Fox Trot Farm
Support your local stores that have adopted the stance that honey bees and other pollinators must be protected. They are responsible for the food we eat. (See our honeybees in following photos.)
Healthy honeybees in “HNYB” apiary on Fox Trot Farm… Continue Reading →
February 19, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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Scenes from the Farm
February 18, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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Honeybees are Buzzin’ About Something!
After several days of deep freeze, snow, sleet, heavy rain and then even a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, the sun came out in all her glory Tuesday morning and the honeybees rejoiced! (What wild and changeable weather we have in South Carolina!)
Happy Honeybees in the Sun
Honeybees don’t soil in their own house, so the very minute that the temps warm up, they take short “cleansing” flights. I think they were having fun this morning, too, don’t you?
Bees are A-Buzzin’
Coming in July 2016: honey, soap, and skin care products from the apiaries!
February 16, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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Mary’s Grandson’s Gourmet Supper with Fox Trot Farm Eggs
Got this in a text this evening from a new customer, Mary. She drove down from Charlotte last week to get 4 dozen eggs, and I was delighted to see a picture of her supper creation. She said that her grandson especially likes the blue eggs, and she no longer has to talk him into eating them. He’s eaten one every day!
Here’s the link to the original recipe but, just in case you can’t get there, here’s the original recipe, too. Oh, and our eggs are from free range hens, hormone and antibiotic free, of course. $3.50 dozen or $12/four dozen. That’s a bargain! Call me at 803.804.3541 to make sure I’m home before you come to get your eggs for your next gourmet breakfast….or supper. 🙂 Continue Reading →
February 15, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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Bees, Basil, & Bars
Every summer I plant a big raised bed of basil…just mix the tiny seeds in a quart of fine sand, sprinkle that over the soil, and rake it in lightly. The sand helps scatter the seeds and also helps me to see areas that I missed. I keep it lightly watered and, in a few days, the bed is covered with tiny leaves that soon grow into huge, fragrantly-flowered green clumps of delicious fresh basil for eating with our garden tomatoes, flavoring my home canned tomato soup, and making pesto. Or feeding our honeybees. They love foraging in the basil flowers!
In the picture below you can see some of them all lined up on the blossoms. They brush against the leaves and release the aroma of fresh basil all throughout the garden. On hot, sunny, days, there are so many honeybees and native bees and wasps in the basil that if I don’t remember to pick leaves in the early early morning, I don’t have the courage to go near the bed, let alone reach in to cut a bunch! Continue Reading →
February 13, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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Our New HNYB Apiary Logo!
We’re so excited! (There’s a bee in that bonnet!) I see blue bonnets for sale in our farm store in the future.
We hope to have our honey available in late July. Will let you all know!
February 12, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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Scenes from the Farm-Remembering the February 2014 Big Snow
While beautiful when falling and fresh, it was wonderful to see the snow melt away in a just few days. That’s one of the many things we love about living in South Carolina…the mild winters and fleeting snows!
February 10, 2016
by Deborah Burgess
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A Barn for Rosie & Daphne!
Remember these little girls? Rosie is the white Saanen and Daphne is the Nubian. I got Rosie from Mahaffey Farm (thank you Jeff & Dee Dee!) when she was just a few hours old. Daphne came from a breeder in Casar, NC (thank you Paula!).
https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&feature=vm&video_id=LpR2lZ61euQ
Well, Rosie and Daphne sure have grown and so, with the help of a good friend (thank you Bill!), Farmer Bob built our little girls their very own barn. Continue Reading →