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Tom and Dee's Excellent Adventures

A chronicle of the experiences of the husband and wife who do just about everything together.

Desert Buzz Bee Gardens

Welcome to the Desert Buzz Bee Gardens at Tom & Dee’s 1Planet Peace Patch Farm!

Beehive Inspection – May 14, 2011

Busy, Busy Bees – April 17, 2011

Here are some more photos of the very busy bees in the last few days.  They are very industriously carrying pollen to their hive from our blossoming fruit trees.

A New Adventure: Bees – April 13, 2011

We got our Italian Honey Bees on April 2nd – our first adventure of this sort also!  Tom has a year’s worth of experience maintaining a beehive at the school where we work so we are in good shape. We are looking forward to lots of honey this year!  Below are photos of our beehive.

Tom working on beehiveOur new beehive

Our Favs

Enjoy exploring our favorite places – through travel and reading, on and off line!

Books

Mushrooms Demystified, by David Arora

All That the Rain Promises and More, by David Arora – a wild mushroom field guide. Includes detailed descriptions of more than 200 edible and poisonous mushroom species, as well as recipes, stories, and information on uses of various species such as for dying hair and clothing or playing games. 

Braiding Sweetgrass, by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer – a nonfiction book about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.

Places

California

Crystal Cove State Park

Sinkyone State Wilderness Park (Lost Coast)

Maryland
Cambridge
Frederick
Hagerstown
Middletown

Nevada
Great Basin National Park

Utah

Upper Calf Creek Falls, UT

Coyote Gulch, UT

Mirror Lake Highway, Uintah Mountains