CPK "Knife love" ? Actual use pics. Not for Glamour shots

Y’all remember when I struck the tip of my Medium Chopper and on a rock? I was going to use it some more before I started my sharpening session with it. Just broke down a branch that fell from one of our trees. The Medium Chopper is one bad ass chopper!

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Brian77 said:
Nice! A man after my heart. Where are you farming? We farm in central Missouri. We have sheep also. And cattle.
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Missed this. N. VT, high on the west slope of the Greens. Small sole-proprietor hobby farm, mostly selling eggs. The finns are for my wife's knitting, and teaching our girl about chores and responsibility. Goats are too pushy. Larger ungulates live too long 😂

May start eating sheep later, but these are... gulp... all named and loved and hugged daily.

Thanks for the comment! You farming full time? Kudos, it's a committed living. #respect
 
Tensegrity said:
DEK2 taking a beating (after obligatory safety lesson) dispatching sunflowers for a strawberry bed expansion
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Vines in the back are miniature kiwis, the size of large grapes and without the fuzz. They're delicious!
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Tensegrity said:
Missed this. N. VT, high on the west slope of the Greens. Small sole-proprietor hobby farm, mostly selling eggs. The finns are for my wife's knitting, and teaching our girl about chores and responsibility. Goats are too pushy. Larger ungulates live too long 😂

May start eating sheep later, but these are... gulp... all named and loved and hugged daily.

Thanks for the comment! You farming full time? Kudos, it's a committed living. #respect
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Love the place, love the plan, love that you took the time for zinnias and and marigolds and sunflowers, very curious about the mini Kiwis, envious of your strawberry patch ❤️ 😃 ❤️ 😃 ❤️
Agreed, goats are ornery. And stinky, destructive, and a pain in the tuchus. You get milk from the sheep? What do you do with it?
Is that enough corn for good wind pollination? Do you hand pollinate? I've never grown corn before.
 
Tensegrity said:
DEK2 taking a beating (after obligatory safety lesson) dispatching sunflowers for a strawberry bed expansion
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Vines in the back are miniature kiwis, the size of large grapes and without the fuzz. They're delicious!
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Which variety of kiwis and what zone are you in? I was thinking of putting in either hardy or arctic next year. I'm a 4-5 here, or rather, where I'm gonna plant them.
 
nandok said:
Love the place, love the plan, love that you took the time for zinnias and and marigolds and sunflowers, very curious about the mini Kiwis, envious of your strawberry patch ❤️ 😃 ❤️ 😃 ❤️
Agreed, goats are ornery. And stinky, destructive, and a pain in the tuchus. You get milk from the sheep? What do you do with it?
Is that enough corn for good wind pollination? Do you hand pollinate? I've never grown corn before.
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many thanks!
that's the kitchen/flower garden with the larger food plot up by the animal barn. the corn in the pic was the little one's, to teach her the care and nurturing of food, from seed to belly. the ears were only 6" long but super sweet and she was so proud of her harvests! corn is really simple, when starting with hearty kernels (of course). but it's a thirsty crop and needs good soil. it can grow in hardscrabble but it'll be pretty stunted.
no milk from the sheep, as each ewe had at least 4 lambs, and they only have two nipple udders, the poor mamas. we don't have the time for milking, but it's a plan in the future, fo sho.

we have a adjacent neighbor with a large apiary with reported count of 2-3 million so our entire property is a continuous haze of pollinators. No stings on any of us from a honeybee in years, such amazing creatures!

trevitrace said:
Which variety of kiwis and what zone are you in? I was thinking of putting in either hardy or arctic next year. I'm a 4-5 here, or rather, where I'm gonna plant them.
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we're zone 4, with 3 being uphill a few hundred meters.

the kiwis came with the property when we purchased but are of the Actinidia variety no doubt. They are the smaller, hardier "kiwi berries", interesting in that the plant has separate sexes.... like a few others used in agriculture.
they're fast growing, climbing vines, and are pretty sensitive. this year, wet as he!! up here, was not very productive. last year though, was booming, as we'd collect colanders full like with our ras- and black-berries.
if you're zone 4-5, they're definitely grow. be aware though, once they take, they spread and climb like crazy!

thanks for the interest friends 👍
 
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trevitrace said:
If they're prone to spread then I might reconsider that one. My hands are full enough dealing with/removing buckthorn, honeysuckle, barberry, and I just found some oriental bittersweet on the property. Don't need to add another 'fun' plant to the future list.
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I feel your pain as we have bindweed and bittersweet here, too. The kiwis are not as bad as those, in that they are not as fast growing/aggressive, but they do spread very well. They also only originate from the planted site and do -not- propagate underground (they are a barky vine like grapes). If you've grown grapes, tall peas/beans or hops, this is the way.
 
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