Summer was a quick trip...so quick I never got the well up and running so I had to do that during the October trip...which saw highs of 80 degrees before snowing the day I left back for home. I even jumped in Lake Superior twice that week.
We overseeded the pollinator habitat...
One of the 2018 pines hit 9ft and a number of others are in the 8 ft range.
We registered an old Balm of Gilead at the insistence of a cousin with the Michigan Botantical Society Big Tree list...
We planted another 200 white oak acorns and 50 paw paw seeds, spread serviceberry and mulberry seed and harvested 10 gallons of apples from the existing trees. We also fenced in the fruit trees planted this past spring.
I even got to spend a morning giving back to the Alger Counyt Conservation District doing stream water and macro invertebrate sampling.
Next year the plan will be planting fruit trees only as quickly as we can fence them...the deer got to a number of the spring planted fruit trees and we may need to do the work again. Letting nature take it's course...even during spring with plenty of wild food, the deer still preferred to munch the new fruit trees. At this point there's only room for another 5-10 around the old homestead anyway.
The funding we receive from USDA will go directly into high yield treasury bonds again as we save for a new pole barn.
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