A look at the trail that leads from the lake and houses on to the main part of the Farm.
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A four-acre food plot added this year. Within 75 yards of the camera is clover. In the past it has been wheat, oats, winter peas and turnips. Turkeys have enjoyed catching bugs in the clover all summer.
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The Farm has nearly a mile of old logging roads that are being seeded to clover to help wildlife.
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Another clover patch at the Farm. It may get replanted to grass and grains to help quail and other small birds.
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The first habitat project at the Farm. Once an acre of brush and trees, now it's a lush field of clover. Harvesting several walnut trees on the spot earned the Farm $1,100.
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Five kinds of oak grow on the Farm. The most common are red and bur oak. The acorns are valued food for a variety of wildlife. Selective cutting of elm, hackberry and other trees helps the oaks grow and produce more.
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Winter peas and wheat in a newly-planted food plot. The pea plants will feed deer until frost. Wheat plants will feed many kinds of wildlife through spring.
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Forage turnips and oats grow in a new food plot. Deer eat the turnip leaves after a good frost. In mid-winter they'll actually dig the roots out of the ground.
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A shooting house was a late-summer project built to provide hunters a warm spot in the winter and wildlife-watchers a place to be comfortable any time of the year. It will eventually be enclosed, with windows.
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Last year this was a six-acre field of brome. It was planted with native prairie plants this spring. Now it's foxtail and ragweed, both of which are good food for wildlife.
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The lake at the Farm was my grandparent's legacy to the family. It's about 12 acres and was built in the early 1960s.
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