Randy
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I would share the beginning stages of a little slice of heaven that my wife and I are working on. A little history on the land. The land was part of an original land grant from my wife's great great great great grandfather who fought in the revolutionary war for the State of Georgia. At that time I am sure there were several thousands of acres attached but now the cousins as well as my wife probably hold on to about 4-5,000 acres in Georgia. My wife became the owner of the property the 1st part of last year and it was in need of a little TLC so to speak. There was an old pecan orchard that was grown up from head to toe in weeds, volunteer pines, small hardwoods etc. I have attached pictures of the before and after of the orchard as well as what it looks like today. IF you look behind the mulcher you can see just how bad it was before the mulcher arrived.
The farm is a total of 550 acres with some tillable (the peanuts look great this year) as well as pine and mature hardwood bottoms. We have also clear cut a couple of small mature pine tracts and thinned the remaining pines to open up the area little as I plan to burn it once I can get some good pine straw on the ground. One 15 acre clearcut I call the graveyard stand (there's a small cemetery on the edge of the adjacent field that has been there for years) is going to be my honey hole this year I hope. It feeds in from a hardwood bottom and my stand looks downhill through the clearcut towards the hardwood bottom. I plan on putting a long strip foodplot on the edge of the hardwood bottom that would separate the hardwoods from the clearcut.
Next week we also start the expensive adventure of building a second home on the property in the orchard. So far we have picked out the brick for foundations and chimney and we only went over budget by 13%. I hope to keep you guys updated on the progress and I hope we can make up for the 13% in brick in other areas. Right behind the orchard we are planning to build a pond as well but that will likely happen next year as this has been a wet year for the area (plus I will need to save some money).
Below I have a few pics of the orchard, the building site etc. The first and second picture is the orchard as of yesterday. The 3rd and fourth picture is the building site and the lane leading between the pecan trees to the building site. I hope you enjoy the pics and I hope to send more as the projects progress.
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I would share the beginning stages of a little slice of heaven that my wife and I are working on. A little history on the land. The land was part of an original land grant from my wife's great great great great grandfather who fought in the revolutionary war for the State of Georgia. At that time I am sure there were several thousands of acres attached but now the cousins as well as my wife probably hold on to about 4-5,000 acres in Georgia. My wife became the owner of the property the 1st part of last year and it was in need of a little TLC so to speak. There was an old pecan orchard that was grown up from head to toe in weeds, volunteer pines, small hardwoods etc. I have attached pictures of the before and after of the orchard as well as what it looks like today. IF you look behind the mulcher you can see just how bad it was before the mulcher arrived.
The farm is a total of 550 acres with some tillable (the peanuts look great this year) as well as pine and mature hardwood bottoms. We have also clear cut a couple of small mature pine tracts and thinned the remaining pines to open up the area little as I plan to burn it once I can get some good pine straw on the ground. One 15 acre clearcut I call the graveyard stand (there's a small cemetery on the edge of the adjacent field that has been there for years) is going to be my honey hole this year I hope. It feeds in from a hardwood bottom and my stand looks downhill through the clearcut towards the hardwood bottom. I plan on putting a long strip foodplot on the edge of the hardwood bottom that would separate the hardwoods from the clearcut.
Next week we also start the expensive adventure of building a second home on the property in the orchard. So far we have picked out the brick for foundations and chimney and we only went over budget by 13%. I hope to keep you guys updated on the progress and I hope we can make up for the 13% in brick in other areas. Right behind the orchard we are planning to build a pond as well but that will likely happen next year as this has been a wet year for the area (plus I will need to save some money).
Below I have a few pics of the orchard, the building site etc. The first and second picture is the orchard as of yesterday. The 3rd and fourth picture is the building site and the lane leading between the pecan trees to the building site. I hope you enjoy the pics and I hope to send more as the projects progress.
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