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I've been known to like a good fire over the years as well...between loading my parent's fireplace too much and having to stay up all night to watch the fire so I don't burn their house down, and burned my science project on school grounds leading to a visit with the former baseball coach turn...

Dagnabbit work and weather never align the way you want them to... My Deer Camp minus myself were able to kick off the first burn on this Glade in 50 years a couple of weekends back. This Glade is about 10 or so acres on a SW sloped of a hollar with a wet-weather creek running the bottom. The...

Started the chinquapin nuts yesterday. I received 15 counting mine, and then the other family members who have joined the Foundation. 14 of 15 started developing roots very well - 1 started a root, but looked odd, but i still started it. Organic Seed Starting Soil, some Mycorrhizae spores...

Our place near Branson received around 2" last thursday, not sure what the total was over the weekend, but looks to be solid. So glad my father and I got my uncle to come around and spread some winter rye grain out last wednesday. I wish they would have spread more as our plots from labor day...

Good news and less good news : Good news - the chinquapins are still growing great and the one we removed the tree tube and re-caged with a larger taller cage is doing great. we'll be working to get the others in the same position going forward as they pop out of the tubes. My father and...

Quick update to our Glade/Side Slope on the Ozark Farm : The MDC Conservation Agent made a visit a couple of weeks ago to the farm. He is very excited about the work we have put into reestablishing this Glade ecosystem. He has outlined burn line requirements and will be working up an approved...

My father is back at the property this week to meet with Missouri Department of Conservation on burn plans. 3 of our Chinquapins in the original grove planted have catkins this year

Planted 15 more Ozark Chinquapins last week at our farm. Perfect timing ahead of the rain front blowing in, so they got a good soil drench. Didn’t get many pictures - working to hard for turkeys while getting skunked, and working around the farm. Our oldest most promising Ozark Chinquapin has...

I have been impressed with our small durana plot. We ringed a food plot that was cut out of a cedar thicket with clovers. I wasn't sure what was best so one edge was durana, one was whitetail institute, one was another brands clover mix, and the final edge was a homemade mix with some patriot...

6 of the 9 that sprouted are doing well in the tree starter tubes. 3 of the 9 dropped their leaves 2 weeks ago suddenly, but have started a new leader this week, so I hope/think they are alright. Not sure what got them - may have been too much water as we've had some good rains in Houston this...

Those are the ones that work best for us. Oddly, we accidently installed some upside down with the holes at the bottom, and performed much better than the holes at the top. We now use those almost exclusively for the Chinquapins and install "upside down". Once they start poking out of the top...

My family has been getting and planting nuts for the past 5-6 years (I think there is a off year in there where we didn't receive nuts). Our first nuts planted were rough and only 1 or 2 survived, but barely due to us not knowing much. We have 2-3 trees that should start producing this year...

My crew all received our nuts again in January this year. I have started the 10 I'm in charge of and 9 are showing signs of life and 1 "dead" nut. 2 of the 10 are already starting to send up top growth, the others I expect will be coming up later this week. This cold front wasn't expected to...

We have considered sawtooths many times, but we have an abundance of chinquapin oaks and dwarf chinquapin oaks on the property, in addition started around 50 concordia oaks and 50 Ozark Chinquapin nuts. The turkeys and deer fight each other over the dwarf chinquapins, and if the chinquapin oaks...

ain't much but gotta start somewhere...it started like that at our place, then we started getting the rains again