Beasts Of Burden

In this episode, I start off talking about my continuing health journey. I recently discovered I have iron in my body from the well water I grew up with back in Michigan. I go over the dove season. I talk about a good friend of mine helping me move a stand to hunt one of my favorite spots. I go over the hunting gear I use. Nothing too special, I use a common sense approach! Less gadjets and more focus on the actual hunting! I hope you enjoy this episode and stay safe and have a fun bow season!

In this episode, I discuss a big decsion I've made regarding Dbltree Habitat Enhancement, my buisness. Stayed tuned to find out!

In this episode, I talk about avoiding future problems by solving the problems now. Such as what I have experienced with past Jesse neglecting some easy avoidable issues with my tractors AC condenser. I pay the price now and wish I could strangle younger me. Same can be said with invasives, soil testing for food plots, other habitat related items. Hope you enjoy this episode!

In this episode, I give a necessary update on the weather in south east Iowa! A heat wave to see August off! I share the balance of working on an organic farm and wrapping up our last brush management jobs.
The rest of the episode, I talk about A Country So Full Of Game a Bur Oak Book published by University of Iowa author James Dinsmore. The book talks about the history of the diverse wildlife Iowa has and used too. It's a sad history of what Iowa used to have, but as the white-tail deer, the turkety, waterfowl have had conservation efforts to establish these wildlife populations again so can other speices. Hope you enjoy!

In this epsidoe, we continue on where we left off from part 1. I read from "Conserving the Southern Longleaf" chapter 7 the foundations of Tall Timbers. I continue to read from Herbert Stoddards publication, "The Bobwhite Quail". As I read from botht these books a sense of gratefulness and gratitude fell upon me for the folks that came before us. Let us be grateful for those that sacrified in conservation for what we have today.

In this episode, I start off with talking about low potassium aka hypokalemia. I am working on increasing my potassium and I did not realize all the huge critical health benefits and body functions that potassium offers. I thought I share that with my listeners. I then go into the life of Herbet Stoddard the main focus of our show. Herbert Stoddard was a man of many professions. Taxidermist, citizen ornithologist trained by professionals, and forest ecologist. Herbet Stoddard with the friendship of Aldo Leopold, William McAtee, Paul Errington, Ed Komarek, and others fought against the mainstream in the defense of fire ecology, wildlife, and future conservation. Herbet L. Stoddard founded Tall Timber Research Station and today carries on the legacy of Herbet Stoddard. I hope you enjoy the episode!
Check out the book, "Conserving the Southern Longleaf" by Albert. G Way
https://www.amazon.com/Conserving-Southern-Longleaf-Ecological-Environmental/dp/0820340170

In this episode, I give a detailed weather update of the flooding we are experncing here in south east Iowa. I talk about food plots, mainly a better stratedgy to have better food plots in the spring to lead to even better food plots in the fall.
I focus the rest of the episoe on the book I am listening too on Audible, "Wilderness and the American Mind" by Roderick Frazier Nash. The book explains the glum view of wilderness from the ancient European mindset, the views of the early settlers and the Church's mindset, and how the view of wilderness transcended wicked and evil into the glorification of God, the Creator. I hope you enjoy the episode thank you for listening!

In this episode, I talk about a new invasive speices introduced for the good hearted intention to help the monarch butterfly, but it actually makes more harm than good! I go into the history of Canadian Thistle in the United States and Iowa. I focus on how main stream agriculture points fingers at conservationist, but in reality where did invasives come from? I wanted to focus on primarily stopping the blame game. We can get our egos hurt and get snippy back, but what good does that do? Let's work together to stop the spread! I finish with having a grand vision for one's property. Goals higher than you; higher than the ego. Literally, setting up your property better than you found it.

In this episode I start out with a terrible Adella impression. I speak about the challenges this summer with invasive work, but over coming challenges with our new addition to the Dbltree Family of Tools the Stihl FS 561 D-EM. I talk about replacing the seals on my Birchmeier Sprayer and where to get the seal kits for.
The rest of the episode I attempt to focus on talking about the subconscious mind. I have learned the hard way what you say has an effect on future outcomes. I have come across a great book called Outwitting the Devil by Napoleon Hill author of "Think and Grow Rich{. In this alleged interview with the Devil, Napoleon unconvers how the Devil uses fear and the habit of drifting to rule over our minds and keep us confined. By thinking for yourself you can embrace freedom. I'll be honest I need to imrpove on keeping my thought process straight for I feel I was on a good rhythm in my dialouge then a random thought appears which probably did have a connection and due to trying to make a joke to make an uncomfortable topic more lighthearted I missed the point. I do apolgoize and it is an art form I need to craft. I feel I am closer, but I need more mental discipline.
At the end I attempt to explain this connection with the subconscious mind and how it's almost child like. It takes in everything and reflects who you really are. What you say leads to cause and effect and that is something I am learning to control so I can create a better outcome. I hope this might give you something to think about and lead you on your own path as I am too.

In this episode, I reflect on a project I drilled in May for a client. I was drilling a standard native prairie mix and I was sharing the importance of getting residue off the soil so it can dry out quickly, better surface contact with herbicides, and most important part seed to soil contact for your native prairie seed. I share about summer projectcs I am burning (see what I did there) to do with growing season burns and taking out the recurring invasive species on the farm. Finally, I share about how to remove cool season grasses in an old field situations or in prairie seedings.