Land Use -

Gardening

Woody is the chief gardener with Linda doing a fair amount of back seat gardening. Time to order seeds!
Our first winter garden worked out fairly well (in that we learned a lot!) Eating fresh spinach in January is awesome.

Timber

Harvesting thirty years of (over)growth is complete. It is quite a process! Our forester has been a lot of help for us newbies.
As of fall 2011 the smaller of the two harvested fields has been burned and prepared for planting, and in 2012 Longleaf pines are being planted. It's a variety adapted to this region, the Montaine pine. These are a native tree and we hope in many many years when they are mature they will yield the fantastic wide pine logs that were all cut down by the 1900's.

Hunting

The woods are leased to hunters who have agreed to improve the land for the benefit of all the wildlife. Deer season is from September to December. Turkey season is in the spring. Isn't that odd, since Thanksgiving isn't til November?

Farming

The fields are rented to a local man who is planting canola - the yellow flowers on the horizon has been a treat for months.

Rentals. Odds and Ends. Really Odd.

We rented out part of the land for movie making in the spring - Halloween II was not anyone's cup of tea, but it did help pay the taxes, the barn got reinforced and we gained a couple of roads. Here's some photos from our vantage point.

And during:

Everything was shot at night.

Eventually got grass to grow again where the big semis were.

The road closed for the big explosion.