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A year in the life of a farm
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Always happy to show off garden. Right now I have carrots, every pepper imaginable, every kind of tomato imaginable 5 different kinds of squashes, pole beans, bush beans,beets, kale, chard, collards, 2 different kinds of egg plant,cucumber, and an asparagus bed. Keep the garden year round and makes substantial portion of our diet. Wife also has a giant herb garden.
Off to pick blue berries now. Farm living!!!
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^^^ You bet. Full orchard...blue berries, nectarines, peaches,apples, pears, plums, persimmons,may haws, straw berries, all the citrus [which had a tough winter!] almonds, figs, muscadines, grapes, black berries, and pomagranit.
Raise chickens...both broilers and egg layers, turkeys, and guineas.
Everything organic! Even moving that way with all food plots. Not so easy there,
Our goal is to be self sufficient. Tricky part is olive oil, avacados [ though wife is trying to grow that ] and wine. Again wife spoiled to better wine than muscadine or anything grown here.
Suspect I'll be importing whiskey for the cocktail safaris as well.
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NICE Do u gun and bow hunt? And how great is it to watch the Deer and wildlife live and prosper on what u have done. it is a great thing to see what goes on my smaller place after all the hard work. And I think!! I understand all the hard work u have put in to get where u are. to you. Please continue
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Labor of love for sure. Emphasis on labor. We work 12 months a year here as there are always projects. The process never stops.
Short answer is gun only. I work too hard growing these deer to trust my archery skills with these top end bucks. Used to bow hunt a lot though.
The challenge with keeping trophy hunting exciting is dealing with the fact you dont shoot much. Not unusual for me to not take a trophy for several seasons. I have compensated by getting in to video. It's awesome. Catch and release deer hunting. Then I get to spend the off season editing and reliving the season producing DVD's. Great for archiving bucks and watching them grow and evolve as well.
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Originally posted by elgato View PostLabor of love for sure. Emphasis on labor. We work 12 months a year here as there are always projects. The process never stops.
Short answer is gun only. I work too hard growing these deer to trust my archery skills with these top end bucks. Used to bow hunt a lot though.
The challenge with keeping trophy hunting exciting is dealing with the fact you dont shoot much. Not unusual for me to not take a trophy for several seasons. I have compensated by getting in to video. It's awesome. Catch and release deer hunting. Then I get to spend the off season editing and reliving the season producing DVD's. Great for archiving bucks and watching them grow and evolve as well.
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Been a great year for clover. First crimson and berseem, followed by arrow leaf. The durana has been outstanding this summer but my favorite has been the red ace. Frankly I am seeing the most deer activity in the clover and vetch even more so than the peas and beans. And the red clover appears to be their favorite now. With all the summer rains this year it is doing fantastic.Here's a pic of a 2 yr old stand with durana underneath it.
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