A website to make the meal math easier on the parents

https://yum.akrin.com

List of current features:

  1. It uses the USDA National Nutrient Database as the basis for all the foods you can search (your tax dollars at work).
  2. You can add your own recipes, ingredients whatever else is not in the base database. We find that we add all the foods we use even if it’s just bread because a bread with a label is always more accurate than the generic/average bread as defined in the USDA database. It’s also nice for adding your family specials once and for all and never have to do the math again.
  3. What you add is not shared amongst users and it only visible to you.
  4. It tries to learn which foods come back to help pick them later on.
  5. It remembers which amounts you last used
  6. Calculates insulin dose on the fly
  7. Very simple & streamlined navigation for the least work for the parents

This is still very much a work in progress but has made our meals a lot more agreeable already.

Brood, brood as far as the eye can see

7 Frames full of brood recto verso. Looks like the queen finally took it upon herself to lay some serious egg. In the course of next week I expect the colony to triple in size which will put us on par with last season.

Freedom rangers

25 of them and they all made it through the bowels of USPS. As I introduced them to their new living quarters, I dipped their beaks into the water so they knew where it was right away. They were all quite thirsty traveling all the way from Pennsylvania.

We ordered them from Freedom Ranger Hatchery (have a link), they were excellent to deal with.

Machetes have a bad rep,

but they can clear some serious bush.

This whole area was reclaimed along with the ancient logging road leading to it. This is where the chicken coop will go, rotating the fenced-in area for the chickens with the garden each season.

I wish I had a picture of what it looked like before.