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My tremendously supportive husband & I have 3 wonderful children, 1 dog, 12 laying hens, 2 dairy goats, 3 bee hives, and a 2000 sq foot vegetable garden on a small 1/4 acre lot in the city. In the center of it all is our small 1,000 sq foot house purchased in 2008 as a foreclosure that we fully renovated to host our growing family, home school adventures, and small home business (CozyLeaf.com). We have a desire to learn a path to self sufficiency finding ways to be good stewards of the resources God has given us. We want to learn to live with less as we laydown roots to our little homestead.
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Monday, May 28, 2012

Busy Busy Bees

Memorial Day is just another day in the busy busy buzzin life of a honey bee. 
Today was brew day! The guys brewed 40 gallons of beer and during all the pictures of beer brewing I took time out to photograph our busy busy bees takin care of some pollination! If you don't enjoy bee pictures, now might be the time to stop looking cause I took a ton of pictures and here is but a few of those pictures..........







Bees are SO impressive!!!































Monday, September 12, 2011

Delicate Purple Bean Blossoms


 What a joyful sight to see a delicate purple blossom coming up out of a lush row of green leaves! The bean blossoms are my favorite little visual treat. I really look forward to each and every one. As I plant a bean row I anticipate the weeks ahead that will bring 1...then 2...then 20...then hundreds of these delicate blossoms. The bees sure have loved all the new pollen they are able to dip into to store up. Soon...very soon, we will have buckets of green beans coming in from the garden!