NH Homesteader- turkeys!

[Pastor Dave]

I remember having one of the fathers of a classmate bring in this huge Tom with its wings all spread out that he had shot and all the colors in the feathers you would never have seen from a distance.
It was abt as big as we were. That was 1983, and I was in third grade in Henry Co, TN at Buchanan Elementary School.

 

[NH homesteader]

They are gorgeous, and smart! The broad breasted turkey is really hardly a turkey at all. Sad how many people know only the dumb genetic messes that they are.

We are very sad about the availability (or lack thereof) of maple syrup in TN. I told DH we have to come home every spring and tap enough trees to make syrup for the year and bring it back to TN with us!

 

[Baymule]

Make sure that you plant sugar maples when you buy your new place. You can also tap shagbark hickory or black walnut and both of those grow in TN.

 

[Mike CHS]

I never heard of that and we have a bunch of black walnuts.

 

[NH homesteader]

We were talking about it earlier actually!

Boiling sap tonight, it's going to get cold for the next week or so (again, ugh!)

Tonight I nade some venison chili with tomatoes and sauce from last year's garden with corn muffins.... Yum!

My pigs are getting to the size where I don't like to go in the pen with them. They each outweigh me and there are 3 of them. It's hard to get their grain in the feed dishes these days. And one of the gilts is getting a little too pushy for my liking. The barrow will be butchered soon, then sort out the plans for the girls (probably butcher the pushy one and find an AGH boar to breed to the little one)

 

[Baymule]

I never heard of that and we have a bunch of black walnuts.

Yup, google it. When you make your first batch, send me a bottle!

 

[Baymule]

We were talking about it earlier actually!

Boiling sap tonight, it's going to get cold for the next week or so (again, ugh!)

Tonight I nade some venison chili with tomatoes and sauce from last year's garden with corn muffins.... Yum!

My pigs are getting to the size where I don't like to go in the pen with them. They each outweigh me and there are 3 of them. It's hard to get their grain in the feed dishes these days. And one of the gilts is getting a little too pushy for my liking. The barrow will be butchered soon, then sort out the plans for the girls (probably butcher the pushy one and find an AGH boar to breed to the little one)

I am out of home canned tomatoes.

 

[Mike CHS]

We still have plenty of tomatoes but sadly used the last of our okra yesterday in a pot of gumbo.

 

[CntryBoy777]

On this place we don't have many black walnut, but we do have shagbark hickory. I've never heard about it either, I'll check it out, but will have to be a "Future Event"....I have enough on my "Plate" right now, and have to get started cutting grass and weeds around here.

 

[NH homesteader]

I know you can do birch syrup too but I've heard it's gross.

Out of tomatoes?? Well good thing it's almost time to start gardening again!!