Nine Mile Farm Property Walks for 3-28-18
Well it has been a week since our last property walk, I figured I would try to do one every week or two into summer so you can see the property transform. During today’s trip we talk about the ducks a bit, how we will miss them but how we also have a lot of new exciting things coming, additionally how the property was ready to be rested so it could really evolve, and how the ducks had to leave to make that happen.
We we get to the duck holding area it is a bit eerie how quiet it is, we take a moment to remember them, but the contract of the east and west property really shows it that it was indeed time for a change.
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Why did you quit selling duck eggs? Was it a decision based on how much/little money it brought in or something else? Do you recommend duck eggs a a good money making business to others? Thanks
Jack has answered this several times on the podcast. Dorthy needs to focus on grandkids and the property is ready to be duck free (plants and saplings can grow without being eaten now)
Hey Jack, That plant looks like wild hyacinth, aka Atlantic camas (Camassia scilloides), and it looks like it’s found in your area (https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CASC5). Of course, I didn’t get a great look at it, and I’m not that familiar with your area. If you go down the edible camas route, then please be sure to thoroughly research the deathcamas species (plural) that could be in your area.
As Nick Ferguson said the same thing in a text this AM you are likely correct.
Hmm they are a camas species but edible. Eating a camas makes me a little twitchy about doing so. LOL
https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/programs/environmental/courses/es203/camassia_scilloides.php
haha….listened a little further where you mention poisonous camas species.
Hey Jack, I watched your 2014 property walk with Josiah and then watched these recent walks along with your one with the music and the bird at the end… Very impressive changes – Got a couple questions for you – Did the trees you started from seed in the cones, in your makeshift green house in 2014 do well? Did your huglekultur mounds do as well as you thought? Didnt see much of those in the most recent walks. Thanks for posting these…. Really enjoy them.
The huguls did fine, good stuff going on down there. Stuff I started from seed didn’t do squat.