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I am donating my body to anyone who can use any parts of this vessel that make it through old age. From ashes to ashes and dust to dust. It is in dying, it seems people cry for you. When you are living they barely remember you. If you can count on one hand the people who really cared, you can consider yourself lucky. Laugh for me when I am no more!!!!

Daniel- I did not keep the pace I’d envisioned. I got discouraged after yrs without a good harvest. Then when I gave up, they came like gangbusters, as if to say, don’t give up on us… so I started again with 5 lbs inoculated last Fall. I sold a few when they came so well, but it’s hard for a grower without a regular harvest to make the commitments a restaurant needs. I do it now just as a hobby and have perfected drying for preservation - great for storage over the winter and for gifts. I got my recent spawn from a new provider in the Portland, Maine area but I can’t in the moment remember their name.- Michael

Their is a Mother and 3 cubs that come through my yard. One of the cubs is so tiny. I think it probably only weighs 6 lbs. I’ve never seen such a tiny cub in my life. It’s the end of May I would have thought that cub would be a little bigger. Why is this cub so small and what are the chances of survival?

Why is a low kickback chain more difficult to sharpen? I have a Husqvarna 440 and from my research, this requires the narrow kerf chains, and I think the narrow kerf chains are all low kickback. Is there a non low kickback chain that I can use with this saw that’s a good match?

In response to the questions above, I read that some trees have developed different strategies to avoid self-pollination. In some conifers,for example, the male cones are at the base of the tree while the female cones are at the top, making it unlikely that a tree can pollinate itself by the pollen falling down into the [female] cones of the same tree.

Kerri that birdhouse with the mud and small opening is probably bees or wasps. I had one two years ago on my porch and I couldn’t paint my porch because they kept chasing me away. So be careful. They got me more than once.

I own 440 acres and many stone walls and a couple of root cellars.
This nonsense has stirred the town lawmakers into making a law that fines me $500 per day if I disturb my walls.
I am a farmer and agree that exterior walls can be protected but those within my property are mine and should not be used to give unfettered access to my property by ‘do-gooding’ busybodies or, worse still, town officials that have indicated a vehement dislike of me and my farm.

Thanks for your article!

I’m a raccoon rehabber for release. I have raised many lil guys. Never underestimate a raccoon. They make fools of everyone who tries to figure them out. Procyon lotor (before the dog/washer) they are smarter than cats,dogs, etc. and the important thing to remember is their extreme intelligence, then the paws which they do use as hands. I have given the juniors human baby Busy-boxes for lil kids (that you put into cribs, etc) and away they go. They will wear them out! If left with a regular combination lock (closed and locked inside the cage) they can eventually open it.

I don’t know, Tami, but I bet it would make a great game camera image. Which you could then share with us…

Great article.  I’m a duckweed lover (Odd, isn’t it.) and have been watching the duckweed reappearing on a pond in Central Park near the “North Woods.” It’s always fun to get some inside info!

Thank you for giving all this information about using fertilizer in the woods. I want to find a fertilizer with organic crop production so that it can help with my farm. I was looking on your site because I have some woodlands near my crop site, so it’s good to know that fertilizer isn’t all that helpful for trees.

I have a raccoon that has been visiting my yard at night, I can’t work out how he is getting the bird seed patty off of the washing line I attached it to, ten it is 6-7 ft off the ground, no overhanging trees - he must’ve jumped and hung on to the line while simultaneously opening the mesh to get the patty out - HOW does he do that?

I wish someone could tell me why they tack on “chick burr” sometimes but not always and why they say it alone sometimes .I had them in residence in NH and was delighted to find them here as well.

What a great read! Gives me faith in the written word and in young writers. Thanks to Northern Woodlands for letting Gary speak for himself.

I’ve heard that the traditional way of eating ramp leaves in Vermont is to make a sandwich of buttered bread with the raw ramp leaves piled on.  The butter cuts the sharpness.  I tried it yesterday after gathering ramps from the dense clumps growing on the east-facing cliff on my land in Calais and it was delicious.

Thanks for writing this up. I’d like to hear how you did through the years, now that it’s 2017. Did you keep up the pace? Did you have luck selling some to local restaurants? Curious.

Hank Rope…......Integrity !

Very interesting story. Love the relationship between the eagle and the owl.

It is definitely porcupines chewing off the smaller branches from my weeping willow trees. And they just chew them through at one spot, no bark is chewed. I’m thinking they’re getting the sap, or some other nutrient, because it only occurs in the spring, with the new growth.
Greg