I did a little marketing. The tiniest bit. I mean the bare minimum amount of marketing that one can possibly do. I shared some photos and a few lines about our honey on social media.
It was so simple. I shared some photos of our honey stash and our bee yards and then I bottled, labeled and delivered the goods. It was brief. It was simple. It was intentional and it felt so right!!!
XO.
Every winter Andy takes inventory of our unoccupied beehive boxes and frames and repairs, cleans and assembles them to prepare for the Spring honey flow. Some frames need to have propolis scraped off or wax moths parts removed (we don’t fumigate and they don’t survive in empty boxes) or boxes just need a good dusting. I…
Since before our children were born, I’ve dreamed about the day they put on their wee bee suits and check the hives. ‘Wee bee suits’ are in the major bee keeping catalogs and look absolutely precious. We don’t have a wee bee suit for our kiddos, but today that moment arrived and our Bullfrog helped…
My sister suggested/requested a soap subscription so I went with it. Make some soaps and see if anyone wants to sign up for a box. My little paper and pen list of interested people has reached the max for the amount of soaps I’ve created. My goal was to get all five of the varieties…
“Congratulations!” That’s what Andy said as soon as I left the local post office this morning. I mailed out a couple armfuls of boxes with professional mailing labels on them and a little prayer that they all arrive at their destinations. I should have gotten a receipt, but I think I was too excited to…
It felt a bit wrong… The process was so very different. No drying rack needed. No wick prep needed (besides threading the needle and the mold) and no standing for hours dipping each pair in the vat of melted beeswax whilst half of the kitchen became off limits. We invested in a few (four to…
I didn’t want to sell it. I wasn’t planning on letting it go. I had just about 3 pounds of the most beautiful, sweet smelling beeswax that you’ve ever laid eyes on sitting on my shelf when I got the phone call. ‘Hey Melissa, this is D. we’re friends with R and we want to…
Hey. My name’s Melissa. I have an amazing husband and some pretty awesome little kiddos. This little spot on the web is devoted to my life as a farmer’s wife, mama, gardener, beekeeper, mozzarella maker and so much more. Thank you so much for coming.
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