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I'm Looking into a Pop up blind that will have enough headroom to shoot my 66" longbow out of. Anyone have any experience here for good pop up that sets up and takes down easily.

This was only my 2nd year food plotting and the first year for good brassica plots. With the lack of snow and warm weather the deer are still working my plots pretty good. A few weeks ago I really couldn't see any turnips on top and thought the plot was finished but they're digging up turnips...

With the lack of snow this year I was able to get a 1 1/2 acre food plot put in back in the woods yesterday. We had an inch of snow overnight. If I spread pellet lime now on top of the snow will give some results for next spring or am I just wasting money and should wait until spring?

check out this puff ball. Don't know if it qualifies as a giant one but it's big and in good eating condition. We'll cook some up tonight.

My 80 acres has pretty diverse habitat with an ash swale running diagonally through that's wet in the spring and dry in the summer and fall. This time of year the leaves are down and it's flooded with sunlight. The deer like to bed out there in the knee high grass in the sun. You can see a...

lot of talk about the difficulty identifying mushrooms. What guide books do you like the best? We have a number of different ones but just picked up a new one a few weeks ago. Mushrooms of the upper Midwest by Teresa Marrone and Kathy Yerich. Super little field guide. Doesn't cover every...

found a bunch of bears head tooth and hen today. The Bears head tooth was so high in the tree had to get my pole saw and attach a stick for extension to reach it.

how about a thread on what edibles you found and ate this year. We munched on morels, chanterelles, aspen bolete, butter bolete, chicken of the woods, hen of the woods, hedge hogs, and bears tooth.

I planted a small rutabaga plot to see how the deer would use it. Right now it's getting hammered. Leaves and stems being eaten down but not touching the bulbs yet. There's a heavy trail right through the oats/rye/brassica leading to the rutabagas. Anyone else have experience with early...

Any of you ever try this? Gene Wensel published an article called " Wicked Wicks". Basically you hang a rope from a likely licking branch and treat the frayed end with pre-orbital gland scent to try and get deer in bow range. Well, on my 80 acres I have had 4 Trail cams out since last spring...

Here's a find from today.

Thought I'd show some pics of my brassica plots as we get ready to start the archery season. There's about 5 weeks of growth on these plots. The plots back in the woods don't have the robust growth as the main plot but I think that's from not getting as much sunshine. All of the plots have...

I've never used box blinds before but I bought a couple and had them put in this week. I still favor sitting in the open either in a ladder stand or on the ground but these will sure be nice when it's raining, sleeting and cold.

Lots of chanterelles in the woods right now. Here's some from this a.m.

I planted about 2 acreas of RR soybeans this spring thinking I would have a summer food source that the deer would have mowed down by July. The plan was to lightly disc under the stems, hopefully improving the soil, and plat brassicas. The beans are growing and the deer are nipping off some go...

The showy pink lady slippers are blooming up here now. Found these by a swampy area on the farm.

I had about 1 1/2 acres that had never been planted and was solid grass. I mowed last fall when the grass was chest high and left a solid layer of thatch. This year when the grass was a foot tall I killed it off. Dragged a weighted chain harrow to scuff up the surface, fertilized, broadcast...

Anyone get drawn for a MN bear license? I got drawn for permit area 26 this year. Kind of surprised me because I only had 1 preference point going into the draw.

Just figured it out using my iPad.

Well, I'll show my computer/iPad ignorance here and ask if anyone can post a tutorial on how to post pictures. Thanks.