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[FarmerChick]

very smart on gathering up those nuts!
walnuts are top nut for me for eating and baking


Hmm...my area people stop on the roadsides all the time for "doing things"

LOL

On our highways we have tons of blackberry and raspberry bushes growing up the banks.....You see people climbing with buckets while others are speeding by at 70 mph

Also we have water springs in certain spots that the locals know about....when I pass someone is always filling jugs.

Peacans---well so many here that people just invite you to gather them off the yard and such. They are a nuisance in the yard and any takers are always appreciated...but my MIL has pecan trees and we gather and sell at the farmers markets. We make great money on those bags of nuts....something so common, usually for free from others trees, yet the city folk in Charlotte pay top dollar....LOL. gotta love it!


Do you make things out of the shells? I remember a friend one time made tons of little decorations for her outside trees during Xmas. She sprayed the nuts gold and silver and shiny red and green and strung them and hung them like garland.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Ok, so maybe I'm the one who couldn't read tone

I'm sorry.

I asked my husband about hunting bears in PA. He wants to know a couple things...Like the regulations, is it legal (he's paranoid) and when is the season (start to end) His reasons for asking is because we're not allowed to hunt them here in Ohio. They are protected. Even the one that stripped my cherry tree clean.

They release 9 black bears in our area every year, and we're not allowed to hunt them. Period. End of story.

I'm sure when people start complaining about them tearing things up again that may change. Even the town of Steubenville (by the River) has been complaining about the bears coming in to town and right onto the college campus!

 

[FarmerChick]

Quail---you guys are releasing bear. Seems like a small population right now but without hunting they will BOOM! Bears are super adaptable.


They released "stupid to me" coyotes back in NC.....well--gee---they didn't know they "had boundaries"-----coyotes are ALL OVER now and a problem.

 

[Ldychef2k]

My dad was a walnut farmer for 25 years. After the trees are shaken to dislodge the nuts, there is often a day or two lag before the sweepers come in to collect the harvest. Then the hand gleaners make a final pass so the farmer gets all that he is entitled to.

Interesting note: Dad got a call one day from the sheriff telling him there had been a theft at his ranch. Went out there...someone had dug up about 50 of his newly planted trees.

 

[FarmerChick]

WOw that is wild.
stealing trees!!

must have been small ones. I know when those trees get a bit bigger you gotta have that "tree digger" equipment. Goes to show people will take anything and everything..ugh


Down here people use "under cover" pastures. Many a pecan farmer has cows in the orchards etc. for extra income. When the pecans are almost ready, the feedlot cattle go to sale for income, then the pecans are harvested easily.

Did your Dad do anything like that?

 

[keljonma]

When we lived in Texas, dh and I used to gather pecans at the community college property. We always got two or three pillowcases full.

 

[dragonlaurel]

My dad was a walnut farmer for 25 years. After the trees are shaken to dislodge the nuts, there is often a day or two lag before the sweepers come in to collect the harvest. Then the hand gleaners make a final pass so the farmer gets all that he is entitled to.

Interesting note: Dad got a call one day from the sheriff telling him there had been a theft at his ranch. Went out there...someone had dug up about 50 of his newly planted trees.

That is nasty.
I hope whoever reported it saw enough to get them caught. It would be nice to recover the trees too. Are they taproots? That would make transplanting, then somebody pulling them out, pretty hard to survive. Good luck. Would insurance cover the trees?

 

[modern_pioneer]

Go to www.pgc.state.pa.us

State regs are there, I'll post on the thread.

I can't offer DH a place to stay in my home, but can get him a wonderful room at a local B&B.

He is welcome to hunt from my stand, I can't harvest the bear myself. DW is a city slicker and I should count my blessings as they are given to me.

She often visits my pond, and she had no cubs this year. She is about 350 pounds, and hasn't been able to brush off her three year old male cub.

I expect that she will not mate this year either, she has spent a lot of time walking around. I don't think she will be able to raise more cubs, den was here 5 years
before I bought the property. She looks to be well kept, but tired.

I have positioned the newer game camera up and will go and collect the scan disk Friday.

As long as you have plans to eat the meat, I have no problems with your DH coming out here to hunt. Again I will pay the out of state fees.

He is welcome to bring his hunting rifle, but it should be higher than a .270 which will kill the bear with one shot.

ETA; Dates of hunting black bear for QA.... Nov 18/19 2009

 

[Ldychef2k]

It was a long time ago, before he got cancer and had to retire. The insurance covered it. Not sure there was a report, just the sheriff who keeps tabs on things. They knew him well enough to call him at home. He has since sold the property, but it was the ranch that he and his brothers were born at, and the house that is still there, they all three built in high school while their dad was off fighting WW2.

My dad was a walnut farmer for 25 years. After the trees are shaken to dislodge the nuts, there is often a day or two lag before the sweepers come in to collect the harvest. Then the hand gleaners make a final pass so the farmer gets all that he is entitled to.

Interesting note: Dad got a call one day from the sheriff telling him there had been a theft at his ranch. Went out there...someone had dug up about 50 of his newly planted trees.

That is nasty.
I hope whoever reported it saw enough to get them caught. It would be nice to recover the trees too. Are they taproots? That would make transplanting, then somebody pulling them out, pretty hard to survive. Good luck. Would insurance cover the trees?

 

[Ldychef2k]

They were only in the ground a couple of months, so they were babies and easy to steal. Arroyo Grande theft is such a big deal here that all law enforcement agencies have a special department for it.

No, Dad was just a walnut farmer, with a couple of acres of pomegranates and persimmons on the side.

WOw that is wild.
stealing trees!!

must have been small ones. I know when those trees get a bit bigger you gotta have that "tree digger" equipment. Goes to show people will take anything and everything..ugh


Down here people use "under cover" pastures. Many a pecan farmer has cows in the orchards etc. for extra income. When the pecans are almost ready, the feedlot cattle go to sale for income, then the pecans are harvested easily.

Did your Dad do anything like that?