Welcome to Nature's First Green
We're a small farm in south central Wisconsin focusing on the birds, bees, and other random pursuits.
We'd like to get your input on how others are successfully (or not) over wintering bees. Please fill out the over wintering survey to help us all out. All the information entered in the survey is available on request and is only used to find what techniques in beekeeping are the most successful. There seems to be a lot of comments about what works best but it would also be interesting to see what really does work best.
If you have comments or suggestions regarding the over wintering survey please leave them in the survey's comments.
Finally, sheep
May 13, 2012
We're getting sheep next weekend! Very exciting. We actually had initially intended to get sheep when we moved to the country. I even fully seeded the old corn field with pasture seed. Then we even put in a fence. Putting in a fence is A LOT of work! Then we never got sheep. We did get chickens,...
Read moreSpring chickens!
May 06, 2012
They called, as usual, at 7 AM. The post office, "You have baby chicks here!" I got Little Z up and we went and rang the back doorbell of the post office. We had a cozy box all ready for them in the barn back home. Here are the little cuties:
Read moreTom Turkey
Apr 29, 2012
Whenever you walk up to Tom Turkey, he greets you like this, "GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!!!!"
He also is always really puffed up. Huffy, like. And when I say, "Huffy," I mean he really huffs. You can hear him half a mile off. Is he being belligerent? Or is that just how turkeys are...
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