Film & Beekeeping Interview In Asiance Magazine
I met Candace Kita when she showed up at our November garage sale for the sole purpose of buying my Hello Kitty Sandwich Maker. (Insert asian girl joke here). Candace interviewed me about producing movies and beekeeping for the February issue of Asiance Magazine. Career: Max Wong – Beekeeper (Asiance Magazine)
Turtle Survives Raccoon Mauling & Double Amputation–A Bittersweet Birthday Story
I was kicking butt all month socking away $50 here and $20 there from garage sale earnings, half.com sales, and birthday checks toward my goal of being $25,000 richer by the end of 2011. Then, yesterday, my savings for this year went back into the red, when we discovered that a raccoon had mauled our [...]
Pink Guava & Key Lime Jam With Black Cracked Pepper
My neighbor has a massively productive pink guava tree. After picking 25 pounds of fruit, I hadn’t even harvested half of the ripe guavas off the tree. Unfortunately, I had to stop picking when a grumpy spider, who was clearly sick of me shaking her tree, decided to take a chomp out of my arm. [...]
Pollinator Frocks Are Wearable Gardens That Attract, Feed Hungry Bees…Uhhh, WTF?
Artist Karen Ingham, with the help of technologists at the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, has developed Pollinator Frocks, a limited edition, unisex clothing collection made from specially designed textiles that have been treated with a “nectar-like” solution. The wearable food trucks *cough* I mean dresses will, allegedly, keep bees and other pollinators fed [...]
Week #3 of The 52 Weeks, 52 Jams Challenge: Fig & Pear Jam With Wild Turkey Bourbon
I had totally forgotten about the ziplock bag of Brown Turkey figs I’d picked from Julien’s tree back in September. It had been hiding at the bottom of the bacon drawer in the freezer. How I missed seeing anything in the bacon drawer for four months really is beyond me. Julien is a fan of [...]
Week #2 Of The 52 Weeks, 52 Jams Challenge: Lemon-Ginger-Honey Marmalade
Since my neighbors have several hundred pounds of surplus citrus, I’m trying to develop some marmalade recipes that even non-marmalade-lovers will enjoy. I’d love to create a ginger lemon marmalade that tastes like the lemon echinacea juice from Trader Joe’s and is, as far as I am concerned, the nectar of the gods. I wanted [...]
Week #1 Of The 52 Weeks, 52 Jams Challenge: Tangerine Jam
My friend Billy gave me eight pounds of tangerines and four pounds of lemons off his backyard tree. Since I’m not a huge fan of marmalade, I decided to try and make a citrus jam instead. Recipe 32 ounces of tangerine juice 4 cups of granulated cane sugar juice of 2 lemons 3 tablespoons of [...]
