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12 Gifts for the Beekeeper – Honey Bee Gift Ideas

12 Gifts for the Beekeeper – Honey Bee Gift Ideas

Posted on December 1, 2017December 1, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

Need a gift for the beekeeper in your life? Looking for the perfect gift for a honey bee lover?
Here are some of my favorite

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How to Package, Store, and Sell Honey, plus Creative & Inexpensive Honey Labels

How to Package, Store, and Sell Honey, plus Creative & Inexpensive Honey Labels

Posted on March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

We’re still pretty “new” as far as beekeeping goes. Newbies, if you will.

See what I did there?

Of course we’ve had ups and downs

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Homestead Monthly: October 2016 {shiitakes, rare apples, and an unfortunate honey harvest}

Homestead Monthly: October 2016 {shiitakes, rare apples, and an unfortunate honey harvest}

Posted on November 1, 2016November 9, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

Welcome to the homestead monthly, a collection of all the major events that happen on our homestead every month!

Unfortunate Surprise Honey Harvest
You may remember

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Homestead Monthly: July 2016 {weasel trouble, chicks, and the great harvest begins}

Homestead Monthly: July 2016 {weasel trouble, chicks, and the great harvest begins}

Posted on August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

You Dirty Weasel
We started out the month with sadness and heartbreak, unfortunately.

If you’ve farmed for long enough, or experienced the loss of an

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Homestead Monthly: May 2016 {mushroom growing, bee swarms, and homestead loss}

Homestead Monthly: May 2016 {mushroom growing, bee swarms, and homestead loss}

Posted on June 6, 2016September 7, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

Fungus Farming
At the beginning of May, Karl and I took an all-day class about cultivating mushrooms, taught by a local mushroom grower and wild mushroom expert.

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Homestead Monthly April 2016 {honey bee update, seed starting, and a new family member}

Homestead Monthly April 2016 {honey bee update, seed starting, and a new family member}

Posted on May 1, 2016May 1, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

I can’t believe it’s May already. I can’t believe spring is half over and we’re hurdling right towards summer! Doesn’t it seem like just yesterday

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How to Find the Highest Quality Raw Honey Advice from a Beekeeper

How to Find the Highest Quality Raw Honey Advice from a Beekeeper

Posted on February 19, 2016September 7, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

Beekeeping, it ain’t easy.

Between Karl and I, we’ve been stung over 30 times in the past 2 years keeping bees (haha, most of those

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Homestead Monthly: January 2016 {winter chicken-keeping, kitchen update and bee poop}

Homestead Monthly: January 2016 {winter chicken-keeping, kitchen update and bee poop}

Posted on February 1, 2016February 26, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

The winter months are definitely slower on the homestead. We have a lot of snow and cold here in Wisconsin- which calls for spending most

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How to Make Beeswax Birthday Candles

How to Make Beeswax Birthday Candles

Posted on January 14, 2016January 15, 2016 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

In celebration of the year that you were born, you should have the finest. You deserve the Cadillac of birthday candles on your three-tiered, from scratch, chocolate

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Homestead Monthly: November 2015

Homestead Monthly: November 2015

Posted on December 6, 2015December 6, 2015 by crystal@wholefedhomestead

For it being one of the colder months… we really accomplished quite a bit on the homestead! On the blog I made vegetable stock powder,

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Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend! It was a beautiful day here today, just absolutely perfect weather! We worked our butts off, got a little sunburned, and are now collapsing on the couch. Taking bets on if we’ll be able to move tomorrow...
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We’re always finding treasures around the homest We’re always finding treasures around the homestead— relics of a different time... lots of old bottles and rusty stuff, especially old farming trinkets and tools (we once dug up an entire wagon wheel!).
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We also have some pretty cool rocks here! They are scattered about our woods and seem to appear out of nowhere in our hay field. I wish I knew more about them! I love finding these gifts from Mother Nature... or perhaps someone else who dug them up 100 years ago and stashed them out there to get rid of them.
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Karl found this beauty today, along with some others including a gorgeous, gigantic 200-pounder! If you need some calming entertainment you can see him scrub it clean in my stories tonight! 😆
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Napa Cabbage Salad with Butter Toasted Nuts! This Napa Cabbage Salad with Butter Toasted Nuts! This is my (much healthier) version of a popular potluck salad. It’s the perfect salad for Spring and it’s one of my favorites!
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In partnership with @kalonasupernatural, who makes delicious butter in post-World War II era butter churns with cream that comes from pasture-grazed cows. How awesome is that?!
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Napa Cabbage Salad with Butter Toasted Nuts
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🧈For the nuts:
2 Tbs Kalona Organic Salted Butter
1/2 cup raw sliced almonds
1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds
Pinch of salt
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🍯For the dressing:
2 Tbs honey 
2 Tbs apple cider vinegar
1 Tbs extra-virgin olive oil
2 tsp soy sauce
Pinch of salt
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🥗For the salad:
1 medium head Napa cabbage
4-6 radishes, sliced
3 green onions, whites and greens, diced
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Melt the butter in a skillet and sauté the almonds and sunflower seeds over low-medium heat until they are starting to brown, about 5 minutes. Pour the nuts and any extra butter onto a plate and sprinkle with a pinch of salt.
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To make the dressing, simply whisk together the honey, ACV, olive oil, soy sauce, and salt.
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Cut the cabbage into shreds, and toss it in a bowl with the radishes, green onions, and buttered nuts. Make sure to pour any extra butter drippings from the nuts into the salad as well! Reserve some nuts, radishes, and green onions for the top as a garnish if you’d like.
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Pour the dressing over top and toss to combine. Let sit 10 minutes before serving. Enjoy! I love to serve this salad with anything grilled!
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