BLUE DUCK FARM

16/04/2023

Bees and Taxes ~ 'The Tramp Period.'
Image circa. 1878 by Thomas Nast
Above are the words: Beware! Don't Attack Industry. Written on the stick: Income Tax - War Measure.

A Tax Story:

An assessor asked a woman how many chickens she had, and doubting her word, proceeded to count them. She took him to the bee hive, kicked it over, and invited him to count the bees.

Via. Historical Honeybee Articles - Beekeeping History

Text Source:
-Steubenville Daily Herald. May 10, 1875 Steubenville, Ohio

06/07/2022

Good eats

14/05/2022

Listen to her talk to her baby.

02/04/2022

Soaking up the spring sun.

23/03/2022

12/11/2021

Pumpkin Curry right out of the garden

10/11/2021

I was checking out burger at Freddys today. The 30% was $5.99 lb. I’ve got lean burger for $4. pm me

18/10/2021

Fermenting carrots

05/09/2021

She’s so cute

04/09/2021

Lots of alfalfa blossoms this year for the bees.

05/08/2021

A day at the ranch

01/08/2021

Jasper working cows

01/08/2021

Breakfast bar

01/08/2021

Fun for the goats

18/06/2021

Garden time

18/06/2021

One of the pastured chickens we raised last year.

16/06/2021

Waiting patiently for food

26/05/2021

05/03/2021

2 hives out of 3 survived our brutal winter!!

15/10/2020

Brunch from the greenhouse and barnyard.

13/10/2020

Harvesting from garden to make sauerkraut.

13/10/2020

Moving cows with the kids

13/10/2020

Great work weekend

07/05/2020

Life on the farm

01/05/2020

Our barn

01/05/2020

Cute aporn for Ladybird!

01/05/2020

Saw this at my feed store in Malad.

19/12/2019

Just thought id'e share this to remind us of spring.

31/05/2018

Nice hike. Learning about wildflowers and celebrating a birthday.