Tag: woodland
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Winter Playground
Our weather continues to be average, but the high end of our average. In other words, we are muddy not snowy. This picture is our horse work/playground. The outside edges are sod, giving us a place to work horses and not be in the mud quite so much. The center…
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Time to Harvest
August 23, 2020 Recently, I was involved in a tree harvest in a woodlot that I had thinned and improved over ten years ago. The light and space created by my thinning and removing undesirable trees, allowed many trees to grow like mad. This Tulip Poplar that I am standing…
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Training and Working
August 1, 2020 Bree, our young filly got her first haircut with the noisy clippers. She is just over 3 months old. She was not impressed by the noise, but in just a couple of minutes, she let me trim her bridle path, without even flinching. I ran the clippers…
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Got Nuts?
October 16,2017 Chris Pidcock asked me, “You got any big hickory nuts up by you?” I said, “yes, we have one real nice tree. The nuts are good sized and very sweet.” He told me that he would give me some nuts from a tree that his grandfather had planted,…
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The Beginning…Not The End.
May 19, 2017 This small seedling is a little white oak tree. I planted it in the center of the old tree that took me two years to harvest. The stump crater measures almost nine feet across. The old woodchips has composted over time, inside the hollow tree. The dirt…
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Untapped!
March 9, 2017 After a very short season, we have the trees untapped. We had to dump full bags of maple sap. The bags were full but the quality was not good. The trees have budded, so the sap has an “off” flavor. I would rather dump it on the…
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The future belongs to them
September 2, 2016 Last night, my grandson helped us do chores. He likes to ride with his grammy in our side-by-side vehicle, so why not do chores as we go? We fed the sow herd and pastured piglets. Then we moved on to fill up the cows water. He wanted…
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