Can you post a pic or link for the plucker when you can please?
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I remember my dads stories of when he had to decapitate the chickens and he had to chase em
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Yeah, kill cones let you avoid that (for the most part, occasionally one will hop out, but rare). And you donât wanna cut the head all the way off at first. Just slit the throat. Cutting the head all the way off makes them freak out way worse. I slit, let them bleed out and fully die for a few minutes. Then take the head all the way off
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Sauté those flowers in some butter salt and pepper and have them in a quesadilla with a good roasted salsa.
Even better if you make goat cheese. My grandma used to make those for the grandchildren back in The day.
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Sounds fire.
Goat cheese and butter is our next step. Just need to buy a separator. Probably be ready next spring when we have 3 more goats in milk. We currently have 2 in milk, and while we have some extra, itâs not quite enough Imo for a steady supply of butter and cheeses
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That thing give you handies too?
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Yeah, but unless you have some serious girth itâs like throwing a hotdog down a hallwayâŠ
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You ever seen that thing in action? It would yank it off alrightâŠ.
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Talk about a partyâŠ
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Something interesting
Donât throw your sweet corn away if you find this delicacy
Huitlacoche pronounced âweet-lah-KO-chay.â or corn smut is a fungus which grows on organic corn especially after an overly wet season .
It will consume the corn kernels and push itself out through the corn shucks, easily visible in a cornfield.
For foodies a real plus is that the fungus actually forces a metabolic process inside the corncob to create new and healthier nutrients! For instance, corn has hardly any lysine (which builds muscle, strengthens bones, fights infections and keeps skin looking young) yet huitlacoche is packed full of this important amino acid that the body requires but cannot manufacture. It also contains more cholesterol reducing beta-glucens than oatmeal, and more protein than most of the mushroom family.
Harvesting in the white/ gretyish zone is most desirable as black means the fungus has fully ripened abs sporulated
You can encourage its growth like we do with selective overwatering , using only organic seed with no fungicide . If the sweet corn seeds you planted were covered in a reddish powder , then you used fungicide treated seed.
Kilo for kilo sells for more than the seed it infects , usually ten times more
This is one of those rare occurrences where a pest is actually more beneficial than the host plant. 
Now who wants a Huitlacoche taco with some grilled corn ,and onions ?
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I have read about small farms trying to grow corn smut by making a spore water and then spraying that on the corn. It is labor intensive, but a valuable crop to sell to gourmet chefs.
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Again, itâs just another example how the waste stream is better than the mainstream
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Those things are blowing up
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Thanks bro, Iâm stoked how they are doing. They were healthy last year but I fucked up and slacked on my trellising. Kept up this year and itâs helped them a lot. Sounds wild, but last year we made some pasta sauce with the extras and it was fire. Totally different profile, but delicious. Very sweet and tangy. Going to do the same this year.
The Wife waters them all week and on the weekends I top dress them and drench them with all the goodies. Been top dressing with BAS craft blend mainly, a little bit of alfalfa meal and a couple other things. Drenches have been with agsil, cal, active 5-10-10, yucca and agt-50. Also added a high n fish fertilizer earlier in the season, but not anymore.
Iâm excited to prep the beds this fall for next spring. Seems like the soil is getting better and better
Big thing next year is adding a drip system. Hand water this shit sucks.
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Iâm using B&G organics for my tea feeding right now. Iâm a dummy for not getting @AgTonik in the mix, I have no idea why I didnât think of it. My peas are acting as a trellis system for my tomatoes. Itâs pretty awesome and funny. My peppers are finally showing up with this little warm front we have. My romas and my lemon boy tomatoes are taking off. The super fantastic is doing well and the green zebra is just starting to put out fruits. I need to get a netting around it so the varmint donât get to my stash
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Thanks for the shout out, bud. I love your modified âThree Sistersâ garden.
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