Wheat harvest

We grow two varieties of wheat.  One is an heirloom soft wheat called Red May.  We use this softwheat for biscuits and pancakes.  We also grow a modern hard wheat called NuEast.  It was developed by NC State as a hard wheat adapted to the SE.  We use it for yeast breads.

We use an International 82 combine that we pull behind our tractor.

The combine cuts the wheat and threshes it.  The next step is to run it through our hand crank fanning mill to get the rest of the chaff out.  We then store it in sealing buckets that we've frozen.

 

Bee swarm in the water box

  When we went to turn the irrigation on earlier this week, we found a cluster of bees.  A swarm had taken up residence on the underside of the lid to our water box.

As can be seen they'd already built a bit of comb.  We put the lid of the water box on top of a hive with frames in it so the bees will move into the bee box.