The Farm From Above and Swarm

Miiko Sage, photographer extraordinaire, has a drone.  He has taken this drone video of the farm, starting at the garden in the northern part of the farm.  I didn’t know he was doing this until I saw the drone flying across the pasture toward me.  You can see that I was sitting in my front yard with Oscar if you look closely.  Notice the tops of the juniper and cedar trees.  These trees were almost dead when I moved in a year ago due to invasives, especially bittersweet and multiflora rose.  One of the first things I did when I moved in was to clear this off of the trees.  We cut their lower branches so we can keep it mowed, so as to prevent the invasives from growing up again.

This video was taken on June 12.

The next one will show the garden just brimming with food.  It is completely different now.  As soon as we have the next drone video, I’ll post it.

Here is a picture of our first swarm.  You can see this mass of bees hanging from one of our peach trees.  It looks like a huge wasp’s nest but it is made completely of bees.  They create a new queen and split to make a new hive.  Zoe and George put it in a box and extended our hives to make room for it.