Tag: Stephen Bishop
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The Egg Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop We’ve been keeping chickens for fifteen years, even though they serve no practical purpose but to provide the ambiance of a mild domestic disturbance. Apparently, we keep them for their…
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What Could Go Wrong?
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Every year, it seems like I stumble upon a yellow jacket nest. This year it was in a storage room in the barn, in a paper box on a shelf.…
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A War Of Endurance
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Biship Secretly, I have always envied people who have 26.2 bumper stickers on the back of their vehicles. I assume they have actually suffered the grueling process that is training for…
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The Bane of Bottlenecks
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Bottlenecks are the bane of a beekeeper’s existence. Just when you think you’ve solved one, another appears. “It sure would be nice to have an automated uncapper,” I said one…
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The American Dream
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop In celebration of our 250th anniversary as a nation, let us remember Thomas Jefferson — founding father and author of the Declaration of Independence. By writing such a highfalutin document,…
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The Horror in the Hen House
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop Richard seemed like a nice enough guy, not real talkative, just your typical poultry farmer slaving away to pay off his new poultry houses, but he held a deep dark…
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Hercules and the Substitute Hydra
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop In ancient times, Hercules was the most heroic of mortal men. However, due to some chicanery by the gods, Hercules briefly went insane and did some terrible things. To atone…
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Beekeeping Self Defense
Click Here if you listened. We’d love to know what you think. There is even a spot for feedback! Read along below! By: Stephen Bishop The flap and yap should not be confused with the flail and wail or, for that matter, the flailing whale. The first is a simple self-defense combo. In that regard,…