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Chanterelles, Vole Shields, Very Bad Elk

2022-10-30

We grabbed our first chanterelles this year near the end of October. It seemed to be a rather mundane year for them. Our first batch took about an hour to find and pick. The following weekend we went out again with two other couples and picked mushrooms up on the hillside above our house. Within 30 to 40 minutes, each couple obtained enough chanterelles to fill a standard grocery bag from three to six inches deep. Not a huge amount, but adequate.
Stephanie made another galatte with our mushrooms.
The two mulberry trees that were started from cuttings sent to me by my oldest brother in Florida, needed to be transplanted into the ground. Their root mass has become too large for the existing felt pots. Since we have had quite a bit of vole damage, and since these two plants are special for us, we decided to make protective baskets for the roots. We used welded stainless steel mesh rolled into a tube about sixteen inches wide (the width of the felt pots) and then cut and bent the bottoms over to form a basket. We dug the holes nearly twice as wide, set the baskets in place, then the small trees and backfilled them.
A branch from our heirloom apple tree fell last winter and destroyed a bit of the fence around our 'orchard'. I cleaned up the area and placed a metal gate where the field fence was damaged and tied the ends of the wire to the gate. This fall, I was actually looking at a live view of a camera placed facing the apple tree when an elk started pushing against the top of the damaged fence ... then shortly proceeded to jump it! I knew it was a bad idea before I did it, but I went down there with a flashlight, talking to the elk the entire way, to chase her out. I heard her bang against the field fence on one side of the orchard, then crash trough the fence on the other side. She broke two wooden fence posts that were about seven feet high, and ripped out the field fence for another five to eight feet on her way through.
As I had mentioned before, with our late cold spring we had very few apples on our trees inside the fence. Over the next few nights, the elk finished off the few on the ground and proceeded to start eating the lower branches off of the trees. This was even though I shored up the fence each day, added some bits to the top and ran a piece of PVC through the top fence loops. She has since damaged several sections of fence going in or out. It seems that once she knows she can, she will continue jumping our nominally six foot fence and destroying our 'protected' garden and plants. And I'll bet that she eventually teaches that trick to other elk. I'm sure I will need to add several feet to the top of the fence before next summer. Ahhh, more projects!

Chanterelles, Vole Shields, Very Bad Elk

2022-10-30

We grabbed our first chanterelles this year near the end of October. It seemed to be a rather mundane year for them. Our first batch took about an hour to find and pick. The following weekend we went out again with two other couples and picked mushrooms up on the hillside above our house. Within 30 to 40 minutes, each couple obtained enough chanterelles to fill a standard grocery bag from three to six inches deep. Not a huge amount, but adequate.





Stephanie made another galatte with our mushrooms.


The two mulberry trees that were started from cuttings sent to me by my oldest brother in Florida, needed to be transplanted into the ground. Their root mass has become too large for the existing felt pots. Since we have had quite a bit of vole damage, and since these two plants are special for us, we decided to make protective baskets for the roots. We used welded stainless steel mesh rolled into a tube about sixteen inches wide (the width of the felt pots) and then cut and bent the bottoms over to form a basket. We dug the holes nearly twice as wide, set the baskets in place, then the small trees and backfilled them.







A branch from our heirloom apple tree fell last winter and destroyed a bit of the fence around our 'orchard'. I cleaned up the area and placed a metal gate where the field fence was damaged and tied the ends of the wire to the gate. This fall, I was actually looking at a live view of a camera placed facing the apple tree when an elk started pushing against the top of the damaged fence ... then shortly proceeded to jump it! I knew it was a bad idea before I did it, but I went down there with a flashlight, talking to the elk the entire way, to chase her out. I heard her bang against the field fence on one side of the orchard, then crash trough the fence on the other side. She broke two wooden fence posts that were about seven feet high, and ripped out the field fence for another five to eight feet on her way through.
As I had mentioned before, with our late cold spring we had very few apples on our trees inside the fence. Over the next few nights, the elk finished off the few on the ground and proceeded to start eating the lower branches off of the trees. This was even though I shored up the fence each day, added some bits to the top and ran a piece of PVC through the top fence loops. She has since damaged several sections of fence going in or out. It seems that once she knows she can, she will continue jumping our nominally six foot fence and destroying our 'protected' garden and plants. And I'll bet that she eventually teaches that trick to other elk. I'm sure I will need to add several feet to the top of the fence before next summer. Ahhh, more projects!







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Merchants of Poison Report final 12/05/2022

(with 579 cited references)


Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php    

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

Song and Lyrics © 2010 by Michael Adams, All Rights Reserved

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