spring at the farm

Yesterday I went to pickup Kristin from her two week tour with Bellafea, and I stopped by the land to check on how the cover crops were coming along. The clover is sprouting up pretty nice, but doesn’t yet have true leaves.

The spring oats are way behind the clover. I managed to find a few just sprouting and a few sprouted and rooting.

Plenty of plants and trees are in bloom at the farm including a huge swath of daffodils.

The apple trees were flowering and bringing in loads of pollinators including some wasps and swallowtails.

And speaking of pollinators, I stood and watched honey bees flying to a hive that I thought was dead just a few weeks ago, little bullets heading towards me from the fields. I managed to find a close place where they were foraging.

From bee school, I know that these girls are at least 22 days old and half their lives are over. The one in the bottom picture is probably older than that as her wings are a bit tattered. They will literally work themselves to death and will most likely die in flight to or from the hive.