Since this blog is attracting a global following.

I have added a Translator to the bottom of the page. If you want to read the comments written in other languages, just cut and paste into the translator. You can also translate your comments to an other language, however I do not think that would be necessary. Everyone seems to be able to read English. Anyway feel free to converse with each other.

Reporting Something is Up

Hey Bob - have you noticed the commenters on this website are speaking in foreign language - I think the FBI needs to be notified that someone is using your blog as a means to communicate - may be nothing but could be sex ring, drugs, or whatever but it needs to come to a halt.

June Honey Report is out.

You can read it here. Most Beekeepers in Northeast Oklahoma are reporting good Hive conditions and some surplus. I was able to extract a shallow super for a modest harvest. Thanks to the City of Tulsa for limited mowing, and Mother Nature for abundant rain, the Clover and Dandelion flow went for a extended period time. The Bee's are hitting the Pepper Vine heavily now, and the Poison Ivy flow should start in a week or so. I hope to get a modest fall harvest.

I am still in the process of learning the Backward Beekeeping methods and manipulation. I just feel that going forwards by going backwards in the path for me. It just makes more sense to me.

Why is everything crap??

I don't know about you all but I am so tired of buying something expensive (a walk behind lawnmower around $400 is expensive to me) and getting it home and the first thing that breaks is the gears that make it move when in use and then it is heavier but you continue to use it. Then the next thing you do is use it and it just poof breaks down on you. The engine just poofed black smoke and that's it - it's shot.

The warrenty isn't worth the paper or money you pay for it - does anyone remember when a warrenty was free and covered it fully for a minimum amount of time. It isn't just politics that is in the toilet - it is manufacturing. We have shipped so many jobs and products overseas to insure really high returns for the corporations that sell the junk but it has come back to this nation with poison in it, painted on it, containing nuclear waste materials and small engines that fail to run for two years. I had an old LawnBoy that lasted 10 years but today I can't buy a Troy Built and have it last two.

And the younger generations don't even know the difference.

Pink Petunias in the Snow

More information to help you get your fall garden started. This is for zone 5 so here in zone 7 all her tips should work out for you.

Time to get ready.

It is hard to imagine with the heat of the summer outside, but fall garden planting is just two weeks away. Here is the schedule.

Making a new life just like the old life

I wanted to share this article with everyone. For those of you who has shopped at the Nam Hai you can relate to the part about the market. I go into the Nam Hai and I look at the produce and wonder what all the stuff is and how do you cook it. The Nam Hai has a lot of root crops. I wonder if they are different kind of potatoes?

There is a movie called The scent of green papaya. I could not find a link to watch it online, but I would recommend watching it if you see it at the rental place or in a bargain bin. The story is rather boring but the food and garden scenes are my inspiration. As I create my outdoor living space I want to replicate the house in the movie.

A quote from the article; "Without stringent regulations or organic certifications, the Saturday open-air farmers market still welcomes all comers." Here in Tulsa these families selling their surpluses would be considered criminals. As I was driving down Charles Page Blvd, I saw a hand written sign nailed to a telephone pole. The sign advertised Home Grown Veggies for sale straight from the garden. I didn't pursue the location of the garden to see if it was in the city limits (illegal) or in the County (might be illegal). But I could not help thinking, how have we gotten to the point that hard work, skills, and entrepreneurship are considered criminal activities in the City of Tulsa. Is it just to limit competition with the big box corporate stores? Or are there previous produce illness outbreaks that have prompted draco

Times are changing and we need to change our 1950's suburban sprawl zoning. We have to be able to be more local with our food. And if someone has a "Green Thumb" they should be able to sell their surplus with no interferences or burdens placed apon them.