Design for Synergistic Relationships (Guild Planting)

tree bark. So, while we're walking through the orchard, I want you to look back over my shoulder right here. Beehives. Okay, we keep our honey bees pretty close to our orchard so that we have success with our fruit. And also, boom, our garden's up here. Okay, this is all about organizing your farm. Okay, you want to organize it in a way that makes things convenient for you. Okay, our garden is right beside our chicken coupe. The chickens provide manure for the garden. We don't have to move things very far. And that's what I want you to think about when you start homesteading is movement. the time it takes to pick up a wheelbarrow full of manure and take it 200 yards off when all you'd have to do is take it right here to the garden and get your compost pile started up right beside your garden. Guys, here are honey beehives. I'm going to do a little zoom in right here so you can see the activity that the bees have going on today. Man, they are rocking. So, tomorrow we'll go ahead and get our second trip into the beehive on the farm vlogs. Okay, so stay tuned. Tomorrow, the next day, there should be another video popping up and we'll show you what the first look into the beehive is like this spring on the Stony Ridge Farm. While we're on the subject of bees, guys, we lost four out of five hives. These hives were still full of honey, and I really don't understand what happened. We had several very cold snaps. So, the weather would get up to about 60 and then drop down to 20, 15, even 10° this year. And I think our bees just froze up. But when we open the hives, there might have been 20 bees in there. Very upsetting. We've ordered two packages of bees. They'll be here next Saturday, and that is when we'll make the video of how to introduce your package of bees to your beehive. But