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Should be up this weekend to get some work done so I'll take some additional pics. Already have the gator hide from a hunt in LA to hang inside.

Got into my first and only farm via owner finance. Grew up in Mercer, MO, where the farm is located. The landowner owned a sporting goods store close to the property that I was a regular at in high school. It was priced $100 over what land was going for in that area at the time. Lacking $$$...

Usually have some seeds in the fall from trees growing in Mercer, MO.

Growth of Concordia acorns A bounty of acorns starting to form again this year. I’ll have some extras if anyone wants them from my house tree and farm trees this fall. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The older farmers in my area still talk about the 18% interest rates in the 80's....the ones that made it through do anyways.

Small acorns developing on deamii. Didn’t see much of any male catkins on the graft.

Epicormic branching on the yard alba that will make great “roostocks” for some hybrids I have yet to pull scions off of. One of the scions to pull is a swamp white (bicolor)x white oak (alba), known as the jackiana. It is fastigate in growth like that hybrid is supposed to be, and all...

Here’s the possible and probable deamii graft I put on that bicolor. Graft union Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Gives the ability to put multiple trees on the same rootstock to get a neat hybrid from possible cross pollination between the grafts. I have the bicolor rootstock in my yard with 7 limbs of different Concordia and Deam’s oak grafts. I use the whip/tongue graft predominantly to put one oak on...

While some are just emerging. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Growth at various stages for the Concordia oaks planted at the same time off the same grafts. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Incredible bird. Looks like a buzzard.

Graft is making some cherries Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What I believe to be a Deamii cross is grafted to the bicolor rootstock below the concordia grafts...right next to the vigorous alba....in my back yard. Surely will be a few fun crosses emerge from this placement.

Concordia acorns (marked in yellow) are starting to pop that were collected last fall. These are from a yard tree next to an alba so it could produce an interesting cross. The concordia in the yard is 4-5 different grafts of Concordia's from my farm attached to swamp white oak rootstock...

The amount of catkins this year is incredible. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Locust tree isn't good for much else....when in Rome?

Grew some wild plums at the house from the MDC nursery that aren’t sweet. Decided to try some sweet cherry varieties to the rootstock and see how they do. So far so good. The grafts try to outrun the sustenance the rootstock is providing, so I trim them some to keep them in balance. Tags are...

The wild plums (in patches) will make a great loafing area for quail/rabbits. Look to have a few of those in areas every 60 acres or so where they can soak up the winter sun also. Quail spent a lot of time under plum patches after feeding in a telemetry study I did at the Atlanta...