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Beauty Under The Underbrush — Nature’s Guy Discovery

ByDavid Kuhns March 26, 2018March 26, 2018

I cut away some junk underbrush (privet bushes) and found this beauty. I’m lichen it a lot!
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Lichen on a privet bush trunk - Chickamauga, GA March 2018

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Cheap Chicken Coop, Free Fowl, First Farm-Fresh Food: Lessons Learned Setting Up Chicken Coop
ByDavid Kuhns April 4, 2019April 10, 2019

Chickens Incoming! We did it! A few months ago I found (Facebook Marketplace) an old, sturdy, used, well-built hen house and run for $50 (and the guy delivered it!). Then we asked around, and got 4 laying silkies (hens) from friends of ours who needed to trim their flock (I like free!). We went over…

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Wildflower Planting Coast-to-Coast
ByDavid Kuhns March 19, 2018March 23, 2018

Gene Jr. lives in the Pacific Northwest, near Seattle, WA. Fly diagonally across the USA to where Dave lives in Northwest Georgia. Yet, thousands of miles apart, Nature’s Guys were planting wildflowers on the same day! I called Gene to get some more information. Here’s a summary of our wildflower discussion: Dave: What type of…

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Wildflower Seed Harvesting Tips
ByDavid Kuhns December 30, 2021December 31, 2021

At Spirit Tree Farms, we’re learning a lot about wildflower seed harvesting as we go along. Why do we do wildflower seed harvesting? Simple: To grow more wildflowers, to aid Mother Nature, and to attract more butterflies and other pollinators. Wildflower Seed Harvesting Lessons This year (Dec., 2021), as I was harvesting goldenrod and crownbeard…

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Working In and With Nature: Toil or Meditation?
ByDavid Kuhns January 2, 2023January 2, 2023

In one of the nature-oriented Facebook groups I’m in, a land-management newbie was talking about how they were frightened to do a controlled burn of their property (for weed reduction). They were afraid the fire would get away from them, and were thinking, rethinking, and (I think) over-thinking the difficulty of doing the burn. As…

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Pulling Out Invasive Privet After A Rain
ByDavid Kuhns June 29, 2021August 31, 2021

Invasive privet (aka Chinese privet) is a non-native species throughout the Southeast USA. Privet crowds out native wildflowers, bushes and trees, and is difficult to remove. For example, when I moved to my property in Catoosa County, Northwest Georgia, nearly the entire edge of my woods was a solid mass of privet. Since removing it,…

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Earth + Us Part 2: Weeding Uncovers Treasures Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns January 5, 2021January 6, 2021

Weeding out the bad/ that shouldn’t be there makes room for the good that should. Backstory: My wife wrote Earth + Us about pulling privet. This is an update. I was motivated to pull out a massive clump of several very old and large privet on my NW Georgia property (privet is an invasive, non-native…

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