today was pretty awesome. after a quick and easy harvest for the CSA (carrots, cabbage, eggplant, corn, basil, tomatoes, zucchini, cucumber, and melons!) we got to extract honey from our hives! it’s a once a year deal so i felt pretty fortunate to be a part of the whole process from sweeping the bees off the frames to uncapping the comb with a hot knife to holding down the huge extractor with the jumble of the spin. i ended up getting stung on the arm which made me kind of excited. i never hold a fear for that and even as the bees were swarming around us as we took their honey filled frames from their hives, i only got stung inside the shed, away from the hives as we uncapped the comb, totally random. so great though. it’s good to get stung and so damn good to eat fresh, sweet, raw, unfiltered honey- comb and all.
another highlight of the day was hearing a strange crunch noise in the distance and realizing an hour later that the pigs had gotten out. 5 big fat boys running around in our huge broccoli patch! it was such a wonderful scene. i’ve been taking care of them for the past week and have grown to adore them. i was happy they got a chance to run around free for a bit today. i think they had fun! wrangling them back into the pen was really easy too. they’re so smart and sweet.
oh and the cherry on top of the 11 hour work day of mostly fun was dinner! we made raviolis filled with zucchini, thyme and cheese with a browned butter and thyme flower sauce, yum! i’m pretty proud of my new recipe. soooo glamorous! i sleep now like the pigs, fat and happy. and thinking of my honey