Food Production/Harvesting...

[JimLahey]

In the interest of food production, here's an article about growing rhubarb:
How To Grow Rhubarb - Growing Rhubarb | Thompson & Morgan

Growing up my family used rhubarb in strawberry-rhubarb pie, jams, and similar uses. My parents bought my grandparents farm house, keeping it in the family for 3 generations and still going. As long as I can remember, rhubarb was growing on a very small strip of soil on the side of the garage that had no other use. Though it's got limited uses, there are a few benefits to rhubarb that made me want to post it.

1) We never did anything during the growing season beyond harvesting the rhubarb when it was ready. It'll produce large stalks that are used, the leaves are supposedly poisonous if ingested.
2) I know the plants kept producing for at least 20+ years without any work before winter or during spring. This is pretty impressive as during a few winters we received a bit over 300 inches of snow with occasional 2 weeks straight of below zero temps.

 

[Senorman]

Here's last fall's bull, shot on public land. I shot this fella about five miles from my house, as the crow files.

 

[TANGO.ECHO.KILO]

Welcome to the new guys
@MCFC @JimLahey @Senorman @greenddog1
thanks for chiming in and always PLEASE post away...I'm hopin guys really take to this idea and we can share and swap ideas, and tips while having great discussion

Greendog I could use a setup like that around my squash field! lookin good

Jim my grandma makes a serious rhubarb pie...never done it. Maybe I should change that this fall.

and of course good lookin Senorman
as the crow flies...you must have spent some time in the south, I never heard that in my travels out west

 

[Senorman]

Welcome to the new guys
@MCFC @JimLahey @Senorman @greenddog1


and of course good lookin Senorman
as the crow flies...you must have spent some time in the south, I never heard that in my travels out west

A little time SE of here....but not the true south I'd say.

 

[Senorman]

A couple years ago...cuz who doesn't like custom rifles and blond hunter chicks?

 

[TANGO.ECHO.KILO]

A couple years ago...cuz who doesn't like custom rifles and blond hunter chicks?

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nice...looks like summit county

@Wunderpus get on that ultralight for your 700.

 

[TANGO.ECHO.KILO]

unload 1200lbs of lime, 1ton of corn, clear cut site for new food plot,
split + stack at the big plot..."crossfit!"

 

[Senorman]

nice...looks like summit county

Thx, indeed it does, but MUCH steeper around here. I passed on shooting a bull once for fear that it would tumble down a cliff and never be recovered!

 

[JimLahey]

Welcome to the new guys
@MCFC @JimLahey @Senorman @greenddog1
thanks for chiming in and always PLEASE post away...I'm hopin guys really take to this idea and we can share and swap ideas, and tips while having great discussion

Greendog I could use a setup like that around my squash field! lookin good

Jim my grandma makes a serious rhubarb pie...never done it. Maybe I should change that this fall.

and of course good lookin Senorman
as the crow flies...you must have spent some time in the south, I never heard that in my travels out west

Thanks for the welcome! I can't see a reason not to try making one. I know some people also make strawberry-rhubarb pie to cut the tartness a bit. Sounds like a good enough reason to make 2 pies.

 

[Wunderpus]

nice...looks like summit county

@Wunderpus get on that ultralight for your 700.

Ultralight??

 

[DOMS4DAYS]

Pic from today, good sized herd. Bulls just starting to get their horns in.

 

[Senorman]

Nice! Must be in the PNW with all that green grass! Our grass is just starting to pop at 7,500'.

 

[Eman]

This field gets leased to a farmer... Sometimes corn and sometimes soybeans. Free corn is better.

 

[DOMS4DAYS]

A couple years ago...cuz who doesn't like custom rifles and blond hunter chicks?

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Great view all around!!!

 

[MCFC]

A couple years ago...cuz who doesn't like custom rifles and blond hunter chicks?

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Damn that's one hell of a view! We don't have mountains down here just flat lands and shit load of cotton fields. What's left of them anyways. We have one mound... It's called the levee lol

 

[DOMS4DAYS]

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unload 1200lbs of lime, 1ton of corn, clear cut site for new food plot,
split + stack at the big plot..."crossfit!"

Looks like fun brother!! I am officially jealous. So after you clear and plant then do you put up cameras?

 

[Rhynosaurus]

Spring honey harvest!

Do you keep your own bees Greendog or is that some kind of timeshare/coop apiary type of thing?

Are they pretty self-sufficient and take little to no maintence or are they a lot of work?

 

[greenddog1]

Do you keep your own bees Greendog or is that some kind of timeshare/coop apiary type of thing?

Are they pretty self-sufficient and take little to no maintence or are they a lot of work?

@TANGO.ECHO.KILO
Those are 2 of my hives. I have 10 total scattered across the property. No coop or timeshare, I couldn't play well with others messing with them and with as big a family I have, I wouldn't be able to harvest enough for all of them.
They are usually easy to keep. I will normally inspect the hives once a month and will collect the honey about every 6 to 8 weeks, except for the late winter months. My son has 16 hives at his place or at orange groves in the area. One word of caution. Never mow directly in front of a hive with the discharge facing the hive. One my grandsons can attest to the wrath of angry bees!

I originally started with one hive and whenever I noticed them attempting to swarm, I would set up another hive next to it. I would pull the super containing the queen and set it on the new hive. The remaining bees of the old box would then start developing a new queen. Within 2 weeks you have a completely new functioning hive. You can also pick up the whole hive or hives and move them to different areas, carefully!

Colder climes are a little more work than in the south as during the winter you would have to supplement their food supply.

 

[bhog]

Here's some turkey and duck eggs.

 

[TANGO.ECHO.KILO]

Looks like fun brother!! I am officially jealous. So after you clear and plant then do you put up cameras?

This is a new lease I'm working on but I anticipate keeping it at least another 10 years, plan is my son will take his first game here There are some pre-existing old logging roads I've cleared/clearing, and gaining access to the nooks and crannies has given me the ability to really start to plan/implement the vision for the future. You have to look at the whole picture for success when managing your resources. I'm looking to develop large "feeding plots" to attract and provide nourishment for a large herd, your environment will be limited to the number of head you can provide a food source for consistently and year-round. You also need smaller "hunting plots" that are close to bedding areas. The closer these smaller plots are and removed from the action will increase the likeliness the big boys feel safe enough to come out during legal hunting hours. There is some pine scrub bedding areas and some thick briars/rhodos on the property but a lot of the old hardwoods have grown up...great for sight lines, not so good for bedding habitats. I'm planning to take some large tracts and burn them off, let them start back with denser vegetation that will provide cover. I always like to include at least one large portion of acreage thats a "sanctuary", a place completely removed from any human intervention. I will have to have some spring/summer plots as well as fall/winter plots that rotate so there is always a food source...no food=no fun.

so to answer your original question lol...cams go where the activity will be