Newman Architects

Rain for the next three days. Our gardens are well hydrated and the local reservoir (below) is full to start the season.

Walked in the woods today with a neighbor, appropriately distanced, to recharge our batteries with the beauty and tranquility of nature as it wakes from winter and celebrates life again. Our Labrador, Cyrus, immersed himself in every lake and stream along the way, to make sure that we noticed and appreciated the simple joy of fresh, clean water.

After several days of cold windy rain, today is a great day for our hundreds of seedlings to catch some photons on the porch and get used to the great outdoors. Still too early for planting, yet spring progresses inexorably toward planting days in May, after the last frost. Our honeybees frolic by the hundreds in the nepeta (cat mint) now...

Today we were stuck inside all day due to heavy rains so I started 2 seeds in each of 96 cells, representing 5 different kinds of sunflowers from miniature to giant, to add to our starter tables with grow lights where many tiny vegetable plants are sprouting everyday, hopefully to transplant into our pollinator gardens and vegetable gardens 4...

Finished building the beds for our new vegetable garden today just before two days of rain began. Turning lobster compost into the turned and topped 4th bed. Covering with landscape fabric to suppress weeds initially. All done just as rain begins to fall. Just need to plant and erect a deer fence now.

Finished bringing mature honeybee colonies out of winter insulated mode today. Checked that queens had been released in our 2 new colonies and found they had been released and were working with their new comrades to found new colonies. Still had to peel of the screens off of the queen cases to release other bees that had crawled in there.

Happy Earth Day from Great Hill Apiary!

We welcomed 2 new honeybee colonies into our apiary yesterday to replace 2 lost this winter. Here is one colony moving down into its new home. Our apiary, with 2 established colonies still in their foil-faced winter insulation and the 2 new colonies at left and right ends.

Our wonderful free range organic avian partners in sustainability who give us eggs and so much more.

Drying and sterilizing 4 beehive feeder sections freshly washed from last season's gunk, for installation this weekend. Portable plastic hoop tunnel at right helps vegetable seedlings transition to outside temperatures for planting soon.