Alas for winter's chill (kind of) settling upon us and resulting in more indoor time for my little man. He is sad that there have been no opportunities to make snow angels yet. Luckily he has pretty good instincts for alternative pastimes. Behold the honey crane! Unfortunately I'm pretty sure Bruder might not go for the whole patent idea For any of those folks who are interesting in starting beekeeping in 2018, I came across the archive for a farminar/webinar that I did with the Practical Farmers of Iowa a couple of years ago. I don't think I linked it previously in the blog. Click here to have a listen "To Bee- or Not to Bee-Keep." I might have said something useful in there somewhere.