Tag: Building Resilient Forests
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Mushrooms Are Magic
NOTE: Mushroom foraging is not for the faint of heart. This is my journey with my risks and is not meant as an absolute guide for anyone. Please be careful before you put foraged mushrooms in your mouth and be ABSOLUTELY certain you have an affirmative ID. This is not intended to give you that…
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Forest Homesteading and Fireload Management
LIMBS! Not the Victorian kind that was never allowed to be shown. Seriously, until the internet, those Brits had the MOST pornography ever! We have a young forest covering the hillside. It’s mostly Douglas Fir and Alder. Those trees put out a lot of the aforementioned limbs. It’s pretty typical for our part of the…
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Out on a Limb: Forest Maintenance
Today we spent the day limbing up Doug Firs. It sounds like easy work but with 40+ acres and two people to do it all, it’s a daunting task. Why are we doing this? Cuz, forest fires are a very real threat to anyone’s safety in the PNW and while our little slice of it…
Olympic Homestead 