I don't try to be the best photographer. I got me a flip phone so the quality ain't the best, but here's some pics from my farm operation. I also added some pics from Easter Sunrise Service this year. We'll see if this works...
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@kyredneck Anything look familiar Brother? haha
Of course those rolling hills are very familiar to me, but it could also be to a Scott or a Serbian or.....
Are those pics taken in the knobs or the mountains?
The mountains is what we'd call 'em here on the NC/VA border. It's hard to tell, but that photo with the hogs and turkeys is in my pasture down in the bottomland at 3400ft. That's the lowest point in our valley.Of course those rolling hills are very familiar to me, but it could also be to a Scott or a Serbian or.....
Are those pics taken in the knobs or the mountains?
Those hills are really 4000ft to 5100ft. The pic with the sunrise is at 5100ft. Our summer high so far is 83 degrees. The old folks here talk about the snow of 1960. We had 30ft snow drifts up in these hollers back then. The drifts buried entire locust stands and hung around till July. We had some small 6ft drifts this year. DOT had to send in a big snow blowing machine the size of a dump truck. Just south of Whitetop, VA over the NC line.
We raised some turkeys once, after our children got some to show at the Houston Livestock Show. Each kid only shows one (and we had no idea what we were doing, show-wise). After the show most of the local FFA kids were looking for somewhere to unload theirs and we wound up with most of them. We enjoyed the eggs and the meat until all of them eventually ended up in the freezer. Ours were some dumb birds, but they had a lot of meat on them.
...ew, wow, dem's mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains maybe?
"Down in the bottomland", funny. I'm at 'the head of a holler' at 974ft while 2 miles east the Cumberland Plateau jumps abruptly to a whopping 1424ft elevation.
Cool.
What are your temps in the winter?
I see where you're using cattle panels to pen the turkeys. I assume it's mobile so you can move them to fresh 'pastures' (turkeys graze like cows). I've a lot of those panels mostly as trellises from growing greasy beans and other runner type vines.
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...oooooh, looking beyond the pen I see what you're doing, the turkeys are clearing/fertilizing for garden beds, SMART!
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I always say Turkeys are 1 of 2 animals that can drown by looking up when it's pouring down the rain. Sheep are the other ones haha.
...ew, wow, dem's mountains, Blue Ridge Mountains maybe?
"Down in the bottomland", funny. I'm at 'the head of a holler' at 974ft while 2 miles east the Cumberland Plateau jumps abruptly to a whopping 1424ft elevation.
Cool.
What are your temps in the winter?
During the day a typical January/Feb high is in the mid to upper 30s. Typical lows are in the mid teens. Our climate tracks very similar to Mt. Mitchell, just 1 or 2 degrees colder on average. My parents are only 10 miles away at 2500ft and we are always 5 to 7 degrees colder than them year round.
Our first skift of snow comes in late November/early December and that last one typically around May 10th thru 14th.
Pretty close
, I let them really eat down unused garden space to the dirt and they sort of till/weed the bed as prep like you said. The rest of them though just eat the pasture and it blows up again 3ft high in 3 to 4 weeks.
I was just checking out that peak on Wikipedia:
"...The summit area of Mount Mitchell is marked by a warm-summer humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb), with mild summers and long, moderately cold winters, being more similar to southeastern Canada than the southeastern U.S...."
Canadian winters, ugh. I'd like to visit Mt Mitchell some day...in the summertime.
Pretty close
You grow greasy beans? Some of the best originated in NC.
I haven't grown them myself yet although I DID try to this year, but the hardware store that stocks seed said they were having issues finding greasy bean seeds AND seed potatoes.
We're growing asparagus, peas, potatoes, onions, bush beans and squash this year for ourselves. Got a bushel of peas so far. I'm working on getting more raised beds built for our bank, it's real steep so I build them with a wood floor and legs on only 1 side. The other side just sits on the bank.
Come January we have a hog killing every year. We skin instead of scald unlike what the old timers used to. I had issues finding feeder pigs this year too. Wound up settling on a pair of berkshire x russian hog. The male didn't come denutted so I had to do it myself this year. I always hate doing that yanking, but he's all happy now
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