Reliance Peaches

I spaced these bad boys a little further apart so they could breath. I pruned in here and was a little nervous at the strange gooey stuff coming from the graft but I can do nothing about it.Im unsure if it is a beetle entrance wounds or if its normal.Once again I will be filling in the missing paw paws with Hazelnuts along the waterway..

Blues Jam plumbs

This is full of Plumbs and those are paw paws along the waterway,I will be "filling in" with Hazelnut trees where the paw paws didnt make it.It took me most of the day to prune this orchard because of the incredible amount of growth. I will be doing a video on this to show just how much growth there was.

some of day 2

 Spent a few hours here today removing tree guards and pruning..

This entire site is pretty much a tributary of Spoon River I.I have it planted full of North Star cherry trees with a little closer spacing than my other sites but I am limited in what I can so here so I may try some bamboo on the widest side to fill the gap with a cash crop as they say.I pruned these hard to be a tree instead of a shrub.I wish I could carve stumps because i got a couple of dandies here,anybody interested?

Pruning day one

 This is a small lot but holds 88 early lambert  with the exception of a few North Star fill ins..

This is an even smaller lot full of North Star cherries,like 30 or  so.I never counted them I guess,Im just glad they are growing so well.I could prob ably put another tree in between each of the rows but I dont have the money right now to do it and by the time I do it will probably be too late.I may have some stock left over form last year but Im sure its not enough..

finally

 I have chased money to put a plan into action where birds could be raised and released in town for a long time. Maybe you remember my original plan about the Dry Basin Project or maybe your just one of my friends who hear me preaching about how important it is to re supply birds to the area. I originally wanted to try raising and releasing  the prairie chicken but there range and price (nearly impossible to find at 500 plus per pair but surprisingly available in a couple online hatcheries), made it unrealistic at the time but a thought for the future. Well the future bit me in the butt.. I could have been eligible for some money to help from some F.S.A. and U.S.D.A. if I would have known what they had to offer.So I was wondering if ?
      Is  anybody interested at all in helping with finding and applying for assistance ? I have been recently issued a farm tract# on half of the properties and we are at about 4.1 acres. I have one active bee hive and several bat houses on inner city flood plains planted in fruit ,nut ,timber,and experimental trees as well as corn. I am getting some pet bob white quail this year as well as some of my favorite ducks.I hope to build a small aviary at the house I personally purchased in the middle of the area. This house will feature an attached greenhouse/aquaponic system and will be mostly recycled and made from recycled materials. I hope to have a functioning off grid kitchen and heat source as well as a few other green goals as well as a saw mill .The problem is that I need help,I have a little money so I am reaching out to those who could help me stretch it.
  I am slammed with things to do but I feel I am missing out on opportunities because I am so busy working and building on the house.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_bobwhite
http://www.birdinginformation.com/birds/ducks/mandarin-duck/
 
  I am not going to be letting birds go but I  would like to be ready to when and if I can by having some of my favorites on hand.I think birds are great pets and companions and hopefully I can dig a pond on the new property and raise some fathead minnows and a pair if african grey geese.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathead_minnow

 Yes the grey geese would be for me,I love this breed and was devastated to loose my girls.

So I am planting some more edibles

bamboo supplier
  I have ordered some bamboo to plant in a few specific locations that can be easily managed as not to pollute the local landscape. I have planted varieties that are edible as well as useful in construction and weaponry.
 I havent been keeping up to date with this site, so this is my quick post to get started again.I have so much too share,be patient. I am still on my own in this venture physically and financially while trying to maintain existence like everyone else on Gods green earth.

this is getting harder too do

I never have time to write about all the things that have been going on and yet at the same time the trees are still sleeping but the grass is green and the garbage is visible still.I need help to walk through the creek and clean it out.I guess I should say "the northern most fork of the spoon river"" I see that it is nearly the conception point of the "spoon". It is here that so many of my orchards just so happened to be cast upon.Its as if its purposeful,like to clean it up and keep it that way. I am uncertain but I may have mentioned in the past about the spoon river conservation committee.
 I wish I had some help to clean it up because I still have to check each tree and fix the grow tubes along the waterway.I need to get some buckwheat seeded along the creek first so that the litter picking will drive it down deep.It really needs to be burnt after I failed last year to control the weeds.This year is buckwheat seed along the waterway and if that doesnt work I will have ot just maintain it.