The Farm - Madison County, GA

[dogghr]

Amazing how tiny they are and how easily they can disappear. When I pulled him out of the creek I told him, "today I'm your savior, when we meet in 4 years, I'll be your judge". LOL

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Funny how hunters/managers are like this and non hunters just don't get it. I once hunted a farmers property and the wife was always complaining of deer and especially turkey eating into their crop production. Came in to hunt one day, and she had a bunch of turkey chicks in her basement raising them as they had mowed over their mama. I said thot she hated them and she replied yea but can't just let them die. Raised them and released them and still complained of them. Funny.
Place looks awesome. Thanks for showing.

 

[dogdoc]

Neat story with the fawn. I've planted buckwheat a few times and like your previous planting the deer pretty much ignored it. However, when it seeded out the turkeys lived in it.

 

[THE LLC]

Funny how hunters/managers are like this and non hunters just don't get it. I once hunted a farmers property and the wife was always complaining of deer and especially turkey eating into their crop production. Came in to hunt one day, and she had a bunch of turkey chicks in her basement raising them as they had mowed over their mama. I said thot she hated them and she replied yea but can't just let them die. Raised them and released them and still complained of them. Funny.
Place looks awesome. Thanks for showing.

That's because we that get it want fair chase. We want the quarry to have a better than fighting chance. We enjoy the pursuit and the kill but the kill is just an anti-climatic conclusion.

 

[THE LLC]

They say Georgia's peach harvest this year is 80% off. This is a seedling peach that came up in my wife's compost bin about 5 years ago. Biggest peaches I've ever seen on a seedling tree. The deer are loving the limbs breaking due to the weight.

 

[THE LLC]

Got some burs on my chestnut trees.

 

[THE LLC]

One of my buckwheat plots as of today--June 18. Seems like the deer aren't hitting them as hard now as they were. Maybe it'll bloom and the bees will get some use of it.

 

[THE LLC]

Looked in on one of the areas we burned back in April. Looks like we put the hammer on the saplings and underbrush. In a year or two all the dead stuff will be on the ground and we can hit it again.

 

[THE LLC]

Got a couple decent young bucks coming along. Maybe they'll make it another two years. I think this one is going to be a small 10-pointer. That little water hole in front of him is my Trophy Rock mineral lick.

 

[THE LLC]

Another one.

 

[gut_pile]

Looking good, especially that burn. Place should be beautiful and full of food in a year or two

 

[THE LLC]

This is one of my apple trees that are loaded up this year. So are my Arkansas Black and Yates. Not sure what this one is, I think a horse apple of some variety. Never labeled it when I planted it ten years ago. I just call it a Deer Apple. Got a little fire blight there but they always seem to prod on along.

 

[THE LLC]

Took this picture of young persimmons at The Farm on June 26. We got plenty of them this year.

 

[THE LLC]

This is the same plot from post #106 on June 26--just 8 days after the picture in #106. Amazing how fast buckwheat grows once it gets started. When I first planted it the deer hit it pretty hard but they have about completely quit now.

 

[THE LLC]

Here's another buckwheat plot. Sometime back I had posted a picture of this plot where the deer had devastated my first buckwheat planting in it---leaving nothing but stems. I replanted and they've left it alone as well. Planted this one within 50 yards of our beehives hoping to provide something for them. So far, so good this go round.

 

[THE LLC]

Looked closer today and found out that my smallest Concordia Oak has acorns this year. Amazing.

 

[Merle Hawggard]

That buckwheat really looks good. May end up being something we look at too since it's a good soil builder.
How many hives do you have and do you harvest the honey?
Chuck and I have talked about getting bees, but with me being alergic, he'd have to tend to them.

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[lakngolf]

Lot of green there in east Georgia. Looking good

 

[THE LLC]

That buckwheat really looks good. May end up being something we look at too since it's a good soil builder.
How many hives do you have and do you harvest the honey?
Chuck and I have talked about getting bees, but with me being alergic, he'd have to tend to them.

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We have three currently, but will add more. We harvested our first honey last week and it is very good.

 

[SwampCat]

Have you harvested any honey once the bees start working buckwheat. I have heard it is dark honey. I have about 25 hives and have always refrained from planting buckwheat because most folks dont want darker honey. I prefer a little darker - but my customers dont.

 

[George]

What is "The Man" up to these days?

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