Anonymous mr_whimsy 2w

Oh that’s amazing!! So why do you grow the trees like for sap/syrup or wood?

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Anonymous #1 2w

We are a wholesale Nursery specifically. So often it will be the local city governments within 100 mile radius from the farm. We also deal with private individual individuals and contractors as well. We do have about 50 acres of wood trees that are used for more specific industries, but for the most part, the trees purchased here are meant to look good and be resistant to hustle environment.

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Anonymous mr_whimsy 2w

Harsh environments

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Anonymous #1 2w

We also have conservation land that we personally protect, and we used to allow UofL students to come here and study the trees but a few years back we had an incident where they kept disrespecting the farm so that relationship was terminated

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Anonymous mr_whimsy 2w

Wow!! Do you work with some form of government like the DNR or something? Or how you end up with conservative land?

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Anonymous #1 2w

The conservation is about 160 acres. The use is listed i a separate comment

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Anonymous #1 2w

This is a portion of the Land in the question. From what the state has told us, it is the largest privately held "duck flat" in the state Kentucky on the Ohio river. It is reservation land in the sense. We have written notice from the DNR that allows us the very strong authority to move for felony charges for trespassing on this land. This land has a tribute to the fact that there is not many places to hunt ducks on the Ohio river because so many of them come here during duck season.

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Anonymous mr_whimsy 2w

So are you allowed to manage the land in any way like planting, trimming, etc? Or do you mainly watch over it?

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Anonymous #1 2w

We don’t touch it. We could but we don’t A large reason it is so popular with water fowl is that during the flood season crawdads and small fish are trapped when the river goes back down so the grass only get 2-3 ft tall at most at some parts but is only 1 foot tall for the most part. Also we fear developing the land past the existence of 2 duck blinds would impact the environment

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Anonymous mr_whimsy 2w

To keep the bugs away*

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Anonymous #1 2w

Even organic farms / orchards use pesticides :/

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Anonymous #2 2w

But isn’t that like what organic means? (At least in crop terms)

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Anonymous #1 2w

You can claim being organic so long as you follow searching guidelines, but you can still use pesticides and be organic. Thankfully, though we don’t grow any sort of crop we just grow the plant itself so we don’t need to use pesticides. Unless you’re counting vinegar.

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Anonymous sequoiahomie 2w

We do! Trees are planted as saplings or for some trees we will simply cut off branches and plant those. The only time our trees are in any sort of container is when they’re being prepped to move.

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Anonymous #1 2w

Nope. Organic has some pretty loose terminology to be able to say no pesticides. But whimsy explained pretty well.

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