Our favorite cow we named "Wooley Monster. She is a Scottish Highlander with huge horns. She has a calf each year.
This calf was just born about an hour before the photo was taken.
This little calf was born on Oct. 2, 2004
Ettamarie is the "Queen Bee" on the farm.
Puss-n-Boots can be seen around the farm. She is getting old and cranky now so we tell the children not to pet him. He does scratch!
Picking out pumpkins is great fun!
This is part of our 2004 Harvest Fair Exhibit.
Winning the Best of Show Apiary with this wax mold of a queen bee was a lot of work but worth it!
Every year for the past few years we have entered our farm in the One-Family-Farm contest at the Sonoma-Marin Fair.
This is how the cappings are cut from the honey comb before extracting in the extractor.
The children named this rooster "Fro" because of his wild top feathers.
This turkey has been one of our pets for years, not a Thanksgiving dinner prospect!
This photo was taken at the Valley of the Moon Boys and Girls Club's Earth Day.
One day last October a small swarm came out and landed on a leaf. Can you see the queen in the center? This is an unusual happening.
When looking for the queen, it helps to look for this pattern. The bees around her are called her "court". They are her daughters and care for her, feeding and grooming her carefully.
When a pumpkin seed is planted, this is the first sign that it is growing.
Soon the little plant gets more leaves.
After more days of being watered and carefully weeded, it puts out long vines and little buds start to show. If it is a female bud, it has a tiny pumpkin behind it. Can you see it?
The bees carry pollen from one pumpkin blossom to another to make the pumpkins start to grow.
While they are growing we try to keep out the weeds. This is our grand daughter Juliet Hebert helping pull weeds.
We scratched our name lightly on this pumpkin when it was young so this scar would be made.
