Honeyvine Homestead and Botanicals

03/16/2026

Happy Monday! Who needs these things this week? 🥚🥚🥚

I’ve got ya covered!

🍳12-dozen available this week.

🍳Five buckaroos per dozen or two dozen for eight dollars. Open to trades.

🍳All laid in the last week, unrefrigerated and unwashed.

🍳Gathered multiple times daily. Laid by happy and loved hens.

Thank you, as always, for your support. ♥️♥️♥️

03/15/2026

High of 73°
Low or 21°
Winds 25-30mph with gusts up to 55mph.
How the heck do you dress for that?!?

03/15/2026

Good morning, and praying for a blessed Sabbath to those who observe.

Today is going to be cloudy and super super windy here 😭 but yesterday was absolutely glorious!! Here are some pics representing our day. My happiest days are always when I get to work alongside my family on our homestead.

Yesterday we:
🪏Cut down extraneous trees along our fence line.
🪏Set up a brooding space for a broody hen in the coop.
🪏Pulled up medicinal or native plants that will be in the mowing zone later and replanted them for later enjoyment.
🪏Pulled some sandstone from the soil along our fence line because one day I WILL have a garden bed lined with them!
🪏Planted strawberries.🍓
🪏Planted potatoes.🥔
🪏Made a growing enclosure for said potatoes.
🪏Planted cool season veggies (Brussels Sprouts, collards, cabbage, lettuce)🥬
🪏Harvested spring medicinals for medicine.
🪏Created a small south-facing garden along the side of our house. I love it! And I even made myself a fence and gate that works well and is secure from materials we already had!
🪏Enjoyed my puppy, Bodini the Wheenie (okay, Bodie for short).
🪏Sat and watched the sunset with my sweetheart of 30 years.

I have fibromyalgia. Will I be able to move today? Not well! Worth it? 100% it was. ♥️

03/14/2026

This is B*tchy Betty. We picked her up last night from Lee’s Feed & Supply in Catoosa. We brought her home along with several other chicks and then added all of them to our brooder with chicks already in it (we will divide into two brooders later today). Being of somewhat different ages I watch everyone closely for 15-20 minutes to make sure there were no problems. Well, B*itchy Betty won that prize!

All other 30+ chicks are happily living their lives and meeting new friends when along comes Betty to peck! peck! peck! at their heads. It was becoming dangerous so we had to remove this little Chocolate Egger (Barnevelder x BCM). What to do?

We took her out to visit her Aunties at the big coop is what we did! [Please know I know my flock, who is used to living alongside chicks.] I put Betty in the middle of the flock. You should have seen all these Auntie Hens circling her to check her out. And yes, she was lightly pecked a few times—Aunties had some things to say! Then the hens left and Betty stood alone, surrounded by giants that could peck her eyes out and eat her. She looked miserable.

I scooped her up and tucked her into my custom mobile warming plate (inside my bra/tshirt, where Betty wiggled and worked until just her head poked out of my shirt sleeve. There she rode in her warm chariot until we got back inside. By then, Betty had decided she liked me VERY much.

Now Betty is the first one who runs up to me when I put my hand in the brooder. She insists on napping in my fluffy robe and refuses to wake for pictures. 😉 She hasn’t quite lost her title of B*itchy Betty yet, as now she lives in harmony in the brooder until someone else wants my attention, at which time she falls off the no-pecking wagon and let’s them know I am *her* mama first and others better step back.

Baby steps.

P.S. I should have paid more close attention to Betty’s condition when I bought her. She’s obviously in rough shape for a 3-weeker, showing signs there were humidity issues during her hatch. She has no fluff, and feather development is quite delayed. But I’ve helped babies in worse off shape before.

03/14/2026

You guys! Look at this beauty! I love me some heavy-bloomed “purple” eggs! My hens are currently laying our Easter Eggs and I love it. Having chickens was a dream for so long while we lived in the city. This will be our third spring with these sweet little creatures that provide us meat, eggs, and future generations of our flock. I am thankful.

For this I prayed. ♥️

03/13/2026

I never realized this! My mom has always called them jonquils but I learned them as daffodils. Looks like Narcissus is actually the best answer if you don’t know the difference between a Jonquil-type daffodil and the larger variety of daffodils as a whole. This would be me.🙋‍♀️😊

Source: Gardenine.com

03/13/2026

Good morning, neighbors!

Anybody need these things? 🥚 I’ve got ‘em for hatching or eating!

$5️⃣/dozen for eating 🍳🥚🍳($4️⃣/dozen for my regulars), or $2️⃣0️⃣ for most hatching eggs. 🐣🥚🐣

If you want eggs (or chicks!) for Easter; now is the time to buy from your local farm or homestead. You might even want to buy a “rainbow dozen” for pre-dyed eggs! And actually, we find it really fun to dye our multi-colored eggs. We end up with deep, rich colors.

🥚Eggs from the store are sometimes 2-3 months old when you buy them (so yuck to think about!), but somewhat older, 3-4 week old hard-boiled eggs typically release from the shell easier than day old eggs from your local farmer or homestead.

🐣Want chicks running around in 3 weeks, ready for fun on Easter Day? Now is the time to put eggs in the incubator. I can put together just about any combination of egg colors you wish for your future flock.

Happy 🐣 and 🥚 days! Let me know if our homestead can serve you.♥️

03/13/2026

Did you know? Yes, some generalist bees enjoy dandelion, but not most native bees. It’s mostly invasive honey bees that use them, but even then dandelions are a poor source of nutrition for bees. 🐝

https://extension.unh.edu/blog/2024/04/does-leaving-dandelions-my-lawn-benefit-pollinators

Every spring, a flurry of posts circulate about the importance of leaving dandelions, touting their supposed status as "first food" for bees. The truth is, the common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is an introduced species that provides incomplete nutrition for our native bees.

Many of our native bees are specialists, with their emergence tied to the bloom time of the very limited number of species they've co-evolved to have a relationship with.

Providing keystone species that support a wide variety of pollen specialists (like native species of sunflower, goldenrod, and aster), providing native species with staggered bloom times, and planting native trees can do a lot more toward providing usable food for native bees than dandelions.
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03/12/2026

Fresh batch of hatching eggs available from our Honeyvine Hens!

Please message for cost or with any questions. Pickup is at our homestead in West Tulsa. All these beauties have been laid in the last few days. 🐣🐣🐣

**More info under each photo.