We weren’t sure there would be a season after last year’s drought, but the bushes look great and are loaded with ripening blueberries. Due to the mild winter, Nature is ahead of schedule so we’ll be opening a week early this year, on Tuesday, May 28th. We’ll be open six days a week–Tuesday through Sunday from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM–until the harvest is done (usually the third week of June).
Prices are the same: $5 a pint for berries, $10 a quart for honey, and $6 a dozen for our free-range eggs. You can pick flowers for a donation of your choice–proceeds go to pay for next year’s seeds.
We have a few additions to announce. Gloria arrived last fall. She is the friendliest mule ever and will beg to be scratched and fed. Bring carrots or apples if you want to feed her–they’re her favorites. We also have 5 sheep–they will mostly stare at you from afar and stomp their feet if you get too close. Sadly they had no lambs this spring but we’re hopeful for next year. A peacock decided to move in from who-knows-where. His name is Waldo and he’s a handsome boy. The final addition is a Jack Russel pup named Rue. She looks cute but she’s nothing more than a fast-moving conveyance method for a litany of very sharp teeth.
Chicks should start hatching in about four days (approximately May 9th). We see this every spring yet it still feels like magic to see a chick emerge from an egg.
We post seasonal updates regarding the harvest, honey availability, &c on social media. If interested you can subscribe to this (infrequent) newsletter below or check us out at https://www.facebook.com/BigBranchApiary, http://www.ben-iesau.com, Instagram @Big_Branch_Apiary, or text us at 985-422-0880.
For those of you who have dropped off your glass bottles for recycling, yea, we are still making them. We’ll take any glass bottle, especially wine bottles, preferably with lids or caps.
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