Wednesday, November 17, 2010

First Urban Homestead Sale

First urban homestead sale.

Well, there you have it. Our first homestead sale. A fellow urban homesteader friend of mine, Sydney, is in an egg conundrum because she's only getting 1 a day from her 4 hens due to molting and a possum trauma, and trying to feed 4 people with it. But her beehives are currently quite productive. So when she saw me gloating about our egg glut on Facebook, she made the totally fabulous suggestion of us bartering—she'd give me homegrown honey for a dozen of our homegrown eggs. Somehow I think I came out on top. Not only did I get a gorgeous jar of glistening liquid gold, but also some homemade beeswax hand balm and, if I'm not mistaken, a handmade bag for the carrying.

I think this makes it official. We're really an urban homestead.

4 comments:

Miz Frog November 17, 2010 at 10:06 AM  

Congratulations! I can only hope to get to that point.

Karen November 17, 2010 at 1:59 PM  

Well done! Talk about sustainability! Nice blog as well. Beautiful and very well done.

Sydney,  November 17, 2010 at 6:36 PM  

Glad you like the honey and balm. Can't wait to try the current blooms honey.

Bobster103 November 25, 2010 at 9:35 PM  

That is awesome. I have a bee hive and wish someone near me had chickens, lol. I would do that deal! Congrats!

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