Looking good! I had 20 laying hens for a few years up till last summer. I do meat birds in the summer, usually 24 for my freezer. I started my compost piles mid summer, I have a chipper for my tractor now. (I think I may have mentioned that before.) I'll be composting my garden in another month or so also. My berries are doing great, first year I focused on propagating them. I started with 3 and have 20 new thorn-less black berries started. My northern highbush blueberries are finally showing growth, around 4 inches of new growth. That took for ever. I didn't think they were going to make it for a while. I have 20 of those. I started with 75 strawberry plants and now have over 400 new ones started in pots. I have one 80 foot row and adding 2 more rows. My raspberries are off to a slow start, didn't grow enough to propagate. I'll just buy more in the spring to finish the row out. Grapes are at the end of year 2, seem to be doing alright, not as much growth this year as I expected. I am hoping to have grapes next year. And my vegetable garden has been pretty decent this year. Now I'm starting seed collection, I collected around 100 white oak acorn so far as they just started falling. Got to get them before the deer! They gather around those trees and we watch them eat them. lol My white cedar hedge is starting to produce seed pods, will have thousands of those. The hedge row is 250 feet long. I need to start building more pruning boxes and also get ready to pot up a lot of trees. I've been pretty busy. BTW, I sent you an email also.
@@iamnotguilty hey! I got your email I’ll shoot you a reply back today . That is all amazing stuff to hear ! Especially happy for you about all the berry stuff, that’s something I really wanna push next year. Do you think it’s a big year for white oak in your area? Still early to tell for us. There’s some acorns on the trees but not dropping yet. I worry that spring drought we had will decrease yields or make the trees wait another year. Almost no walnuts around this year. We’ll see how it goes. I started picking hazelnuts last week!
Dude you are surrounded by carbon up there, start pruning, look for a used wood chipper off marketplace or something, put the word out. I am sure you will find one. You may think you don't have the time, trim a couple branches as you are out doing things it will add up quickly. a pruners and/or bypass saw on a belt holster to always have with you out there.
@@BigggRoss I agree that if I really wanted carbon up here we could generate it from the landscape. We’re actually already looking to get a wood chipper just to generate wood chips for the garden, nursery, and orchard. But after giving it more thought we are set on getting the animals out on pasture and out of this yard anyway. Currently building our chicken tractor and ordering the electric fence for the pigs.
@@livingsoiltreefarm Cool. Yeah Rotational grazing would likely be more beneficial all around Just when you were talking about getting it delivered I was like "Dude your surrounded by it why buy it in"
@@BigggRoss yeah we def want to be making it ourselves. Just might be a while before we have the funds to get a chipper + the time to chip a bunch. And with the chicken coop specifically getting either chips or a chipper up here is tricky because the bridge over the creek is out. But definitely if we want it to happen we’d make it happen. I guess part of this too is that for a while I lived closer to metropolitan areas and it was just so easy to get chips delivered for free or for low cost.
Looking good! I had 20 laying hens for a few years up till last summer. I do meat birds in the summer, usually 24 for my freezer.
I started my compost piles mid summer, I have a chipper for my tractor now. (I think I may have mentioned that before.)
I'll be composting my garden in another month or so also.
My berries are doing great, first year I focused on propagating them. I started with 3 and have 20 new thorn-less black berries started.
My northern highbush blueberries are finally showing growth, around 4 inches of new growth. That took for ever. I didn't think they were going to make it for a while. I have 20 of those.
I started with 75 strawberry plants and now have over 400 new ones started in pots. I have one 80 foot row and adding 2 more rows.
My raspberries are off to a slow start, didn't grow enough to propagate. I'll just buy more in the spring to finish the row out.
Grapes are at the end of year 2, seem to be doing alright, not as much growth this year as I expected. I am hoping to have grapes next year.
And my vegetable garden has been pretty decent this year.
Now I'm starting seed collection, I collected around 100 white oak acorn so far as they just started falling. Got to get them before the deer! They gather around those trees and we watch them eat them. lol
My white cedar hedge is starting to produce seed pods, will have thousands of those. The hedge row is 250 feet long.
I need to start building more pruning boxes and also get ready to pot up a lot of trees.
I've been pretty busy. BTW, I sent you an email also.
@@iamnotguilty hey! I got your email I’ll shoot you a reply back today . That is all amazing stuff to hear ! Especially happy for you about all the berry stuff, that’s something I really wanna push next year. Do you think it’s a big year for white oak in your area? Still early to tell for us. There’s some acorns on the trees but not dropping yet. I worry that spring drought we had will decrease yields or make the trees wait another year. Almost no walnuts around this year. We’ll see how it goes. I started picking hazelnuts last week!
Dude you are surrounded by carbon up there, start pruning, look for a used wood chipper off marketplace or something, put the word out. I am sure you will find one. You may think you don't have the time, trim a couple branches as you are out doing things it will add up quickly. a pruners and/or bypass saw on a belt holster to always have with you out there.
@@BigggRoss I agree that if I really wanted carbon up here we could generate it from the landscape. We’re actually already looking to get a wood chipper just to generate wood chips for the garden, nursery, and orchard. But after giving it more thought we are set on getting the animals out on pasture and out of this yard anyway. Currently building our chicken tractor and ordering the electric fence for the pigs.
@@livingsoiltreefarm Cool. Yeah Rotational grazing would likely be more beneficial all around Just when you were talking about getting it delivered I was like "Dude your surrounded by it why buy it in"
@@BigggRoss yeah we def want to be making it ourselves. Just might be a while before we have the funds to get a chipper + the time to chip a bunch. And with the chicken coop specifically getting either chips or a chipper up here is tricky because the bridge over the creek is out. But definitely if we want it to happen we’d make it happen. I guess part of this too is that for a while I lived closer to metropolitan areas and it was just so easy to get chips delivered for free or for low cost.