Author Archives: Severt Hives and Homestead

Creamy Tomato Basil Soup

This creamy-dreamy tomato soup is a perfect comfort food. The best part: this recipe can be made keto/low carb friendly, and is gluten free! As with most soups, ingredients can be added and/or omitted according to your preferred taste. Ingredients: 1 Qt. home preserved diced tomatoes (or one 28 ounce can of diced tomatoes) 3Continue reading “Creamy Tomato Basil Soup”

In the garden: 2020 in review, part 3

Installment number three in this series finds us focusing on the early portion of our vegetable growing season (pre-harvest.) Much was to be learned as well as celebrated in our 2020 garden; join me as I recall the year’s successes and struggles. If you’ve missed the previous installments, start here at part 1 before continuingContinue reading “In the garden: 2020 in review, part 3”

In the garden: 2020 in review, part 2.

This is the second part in the series “In the garden: 2020 in review,” where I will document our successes and failures in our 2020 garden. The year’s experience was unique to any other year in many ways, join me as I share what we’ve learned. Today’s post is not nearly as dramatic as theContinue reading “In the garden: 2020 in review, part 2.”

Let’s start at the bee-ginning.

In our last blog post, we briefly discussed some points to ponder before taking the leap into your beekeeping journey. Today we are taking time to answer a portion of those questions. Let’s cut to the chase! What equipment do I need?When you’re first becoming a beekeeper, there are a few basic supplies you willContinue reading “Let’s start at the bee-ginning.”

So You Want to be a Beek?

We’ve all done it. There’s a company carry-in tomorrow, it’s already 9 pm, and you totally forgot about it until now. You rummage the cupboards, hurriedly slap some ingredients into a mixing bowl, and throw them into the oven. Cookies are pretty simple, no problem, you’ve got this. After it’s all said and done, thoseContinue reading “So You Want to be a Beek?”

One Lucky Rooster

Meet Roger- the rooster we never intended to have, and never knew we needed. This is his story. That evening was like any other in late summer with the family all outdoors, the Mr. and I doing yard work while the kids played or chased some sort of creepy crawly nearby. Our neighbor pulled inContinue reading “One Lucky Rooster”