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The Bees Will Get A Charge Out of This!
The Bees Will Get A Charge Out of This!

April 13, 2023

As a bee flies through the air, the extreme rapid flapping of her wings builds up a positive static electric charge. The pollen grains of a flower hold a negative charge and when a bee lands on that flower, that fine pollen gets shaken loose from that flowers anther. It's attracted to the positively charged hairs on the bees body, so it just leaps onto the bee without her having to touch it!

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The Story Behind National Pancake Day!
The Story Behind National Pancake Day!

February 20, 2023 2 Comments

I've always been a curious sort, so when I went to put together a National Pancake Day promotion this week for Golden Dog Farm Maple Syrup, I was inclined to dig a bit to find out why Shrove Tuesday, or the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday is also known as National Pancake Day. 

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Divine Provenance: Single-Tree Maple Syrup
Divine Provenance: Single-Tree Maple Syrup

December 08, 2021 4 Comments

At the end of this maple syrup "provenance-focused positioning exercise," I wondered if we could get even more granular? Could we make and market a maple syrup from a single tree?

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Vandemic Trip in Great Redwoods, RV Life, Life Before Golden Dog Farm
It Was A 17,000 Mile Drive To Get Here

October 17, 2021 26 Comments

Our friends and family wonder how, and why, we so dramatically changed the course of our lives. Leaving the comfort, support and familiarity of friends and family in Cincinnati to end up on a farm in rural Vermont (to call it rural Vermont is admittedly a bit redundant) where we basically knew no one.

Well, it's complicated.

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