Jl Cameron

Greetings all.
I am hoping to start connecting with natural bee keepers in BC Canada.
We are building a couple Lazutin style horizontal hives and plan on getting bees in the spring.
Our goal is to continue building up our property to where we can sustain enough colonies to be able to focus on breeding locally adapted bees.
As so far I have not been able to find anyone who raises their own bees in the BC interior. it is all imported bees.
And the few breeders north of us are very industrial style bee keeping so lots of ick in the hives.
Anyway that's my goal.
Any contacts would be greatly appreciated.

Also called three way hobbles.
They are awesome for those horses that learn to run full speed with regular hobbles on.

Horses should be trained with them before being left unattended.
A picket line also needs training. And should not leave unattended for long.
Hobbles are much safer in that regard.

Predators would be my only concern in leaving horses hobbled unattended. We leave ours out all night but the wolves aren’t around in the summer where we are.

Good on you!

Yes you can get more with a horse in harness.
But as Alexia pointed out. It is a HUGE learning curve from riding to driving so please find a mentor to help you.
(Hubby grew up doing this and has two broken backs to show for it)
We get all our firewood with our work horses.

But another option for your saddle horse is to drag logs from the horn.
Dally only do not tie hard and fast!
That way if your horses put up too much of a protest, you just let go of the rope.

Have fun!

Another thought would be to use a Joel Salatin type pig turned compost piles.

You would need two spaces. I remember an article in The Small Farmers Journal years ago that used two box stalls.
As you shovel manure in you also throw in whole corn and once it’s full you turn some pigs into it and they turn it and eat the corn.

I don’t recall how long it took on average.
The couple in the SFJ article used chickens for refining it for seedling starting.

I want to try this one but I have to build a covered area first as we get an average of four to six feet of snow in the winter.

Hi Vicky
Not sure if they can ship across the boarder for you.
But I just ordered hardy to zone 2&3 Elderberry from ttseeds.com out of Manitoba Canada.
If you don’t have any luck I might be able to send you some next year.
I am zone 3.

I am looking to buy some dvds and books.
But it looks like each item has to be processed separately.
Is there a way around that?