Full Transcript for Q&A Show 10/10/26

00:02:57.460 --> 00:03:06.469 previous episode, when we butcher pigs, we hold back, we 37 00:03:06.509 --> 00:03:11.949 harvest all the fat and we render... a good majority 38 00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:15.479 of it into lard, but we always keep a couple 39 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:20.759 of bags of just chunked up pig fat in the 40 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:24.460 freezer so that when deer season rolls around and we're 41 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:27.800 making ground venison, we have some fat to add to it. 42 00:03:28.250 --> 00:03:38.009 So percentage-wise, I'm probably adding between... I'd say it's somewhere 43 00:03:38.069 --> 00:03:44.580 between a... 80-20 and a 60-40 somewhere in between there 44 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:46.419 you can go a little heavier you can go a 45 00:03:46.460 --> 00:03:51.280 little lighter up to your taste it's it's more of 46 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.900 an art to knowing how much to put in I 47 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:58.199 don't measure any I don't measure how many pounds of 48 00:03:58.219 --> 00:04:00.319 meat I got and go measure out how many pounds 49 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:03.370 of fat I got I just start breaking chunks of 50 00:04:03.379 --> 00:04:05.289 fat off and cutting them up so they'll go through 51 00:04:05.310 --> 00:04:09.500 the grinder and then well the meat's going through run 52 00:04:09.509 --> 00:04:12.020 a few handfuls of meat down the grinder, and then 53 00:04:12.659 --> 00:04:14.719 run a handful of fat down the grinder. And if 54 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:18.899 I'm looking at the pile and it's not looking, looks 55 00:04:18.939 --> 00:04:20.680 like it needs a little more fat, I might just 56 00:04:21.319 --> 00:04:25.019 run some more fat through it. And so while I'm 57 00:04:25.060 --> 00:04:28.759 doing that, I'm mixing it. So like we did a 58 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.180 batch yesterday. We did about, ended up with about a 59 00:04:32.220 --> 00:04:36.040 five-gallon pail full of ground meat when we were done. 60 00:04:37.189 --> 00:04:41.250 So my grinder's running into a smaller container. Then I 61 00:04:41.290 --> 00:04:45.649 take that, dump it into big stock pots, mix it 62 00:04:45.689 --> 00:04:51.220 by hand. So when you're going through, you're grinding some meat, 63 00:04:51.259 --> 00:04:53.899 grinding some fat, grinding some meat, grinding some fat, grinding 64 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.279 some meat, grinding some fat. Then you just blend that 65 00:04:56.319 --> 00:04:58.339 together with your hands and then throw it in there. 66 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.120 So that's how it gets mixed up. Now you're going to, 67 00:05:02.740 --> 00:05:09.779 this is running it through the course, through the course of, um, blade. 68 00:05:09.860 --> 00:05:13.639 So next you're gonna, the next one you're gonna do, 69 00:05:14.220 --> 00:05:18.000 you're gonna run it through, uh, a little smaller holes 70 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:21.339 on the grind plate. And I think I said blade 71 00:05:21.379 --> 00:05:22.259 before I meant plate. 72 00:05:22.939 --> 00:05:27.779 Um, so then when you run it through the smaller 73 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:32.329 hold plate, sometimes I run it through once, sometimes I 74 00:05:32.389 --> 00:05:33.129 run it through twice. 75 00:05:33.509 --> 00:05:37.810 Yesterday, um, my daughter was there She grabbed a handful 76 00:05:37.889 --> 00:05:40.930 of it and fried one up quick on the cast 77 00:05:41.029 --> 00:05:44.029 iron skillet. Took a bite and said, yeah, I think 78 00:05:44.069 --> 00:05:46.610 I want you to run it through a second time. 79 00:05:49.490 --> 00:05:52.269 So you're actually grinding it three different times and you're 80 00:05:52.300 --> 00:05:54.220 mixing it all the time. So you end up with 81 00:05:54.259 --> 00:05:58.220 a nice mixture if you do it that way. The 82 00:05:58.259 --> 00:06:04.240 fat is blended in pretty good. Any tips or tricks? 83 00:06:05.850 --> 00:06:10.250 One thing... Take your plates and your blade and throw 84 00:06:10.269 --> 00:06:16.160 them in the freezer before you get started. That helps 85 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:19.160 so that stuff after things are running for a while 86 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:22.639 and it gets kind of gooey. The warmer it gets, 87 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:26.000 the harder the process goes. I like to start out 88 00:06:26.019 --> 00:06:33.730 with a chilled plate. Another thing, if you can, take 89 00:06:33.750 --> 00:06:35.389 your bucket of grind meat and throw it in the 90 00:06:35.410 --> 00:06:38.279 chest freezer. for a little while before you grind it. 91 00:06:38.569 --> 00:06:40.069 You don't want to freeze it. You don't want it 92 00:06:40.089 --> 00:06:42.550 to be frozen hard, but you just want it to 93 00:06:42.589 --> 00:06:45.620 be nice and chilled, have a few ice crystals in it. 94 00:06:46.379 --> 00:06:51.560 That makes it go a lot faster too. As far 95 00:06:51.860 --> 00:06:55.980 as he wanted to know if I had any recommendations 96 00:06:56.060 --> 00:07:00.019 for grinders, I haven't bought a new grinder in a 97 00:07:00.060 --> 00:07:03.899 long time, so I can't really go out and say 98 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.810 this brand or that brand. What I will say about 99 00:07:06.870 --> 00:07:14.680 buying meat grinders is this. Get the biggest motor, biggest 100 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:21.759 capacity that you can afford. You will thank me later. 101 00:07:23.930 --> 00:07:26.290 Figure out what your maximum budget is and buy the 102 00:07:26.410 --> 00:07:28.829 biggest one that you can for that amount of money. 103 00:07:30.490 --> 00:07:32.470 And if it's just a little bit more to get 104 00:07:32.509 --> 00:07:35.870 the next size up, get the next size up. Um, 105 00:07:36.490 --> 00:07:39.470 I've struggled in the past using meat grinders that were, 106 00:07:39.490 --> 00:07:44.129 that were underpowered and low capacity. And it just takes 107 00:07:44.370 --> 00:07:47.870 so long. I, the

machine I've got now, I almost 108 00:07:47.910 --> 00:07:50.310 feel guilty every time I use it because it's taken 109 00:07:50.350 --> 00:07:52.250 all the work out of it. It is, I don't 110 00:07:52.269 --> 00:07:54.230 even know how many horsepower this thing is. It's a 111 00:07:54.290 --> 00:07:58.269 big industrial one. It's older than I am. Um, I 112 00:07:58.350 --> 00:08:00.790 bought it in an auction. I saw it listed on 113 00:08:00.829 --> 00:08:04.889 an auction a couple of years ago. There was an auction. 114 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:08.870 And they had all sorts of stuff. But this thing 115 00:08:08.899 --> 00:08:14.389 had originally come out of the old Madrid store, which 116 00:08:14.430 --> 00:08:19.149 was a grocery store way back before my time. And 117 00:08:19.490 --> 00:08:24.509 it came out of the meat department there. And it's huge. 118 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:29.879 It's ancient. And that thing will grind stuff that you 119 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:33.799 would never dream of throwing into a smaller size grinder. 120 00:08:34.299 --> 00:08:38.399 And it does it so fast. it's just ridiculous. So 121 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:43.019 the bigger the motor, you can go the better. The 122 00:08:43.090 --> 00:08:47.789 bigger capacity as far as auger size in the throat, 123 00:08:48.389 --> 00:08:50.809 then you can use bigger chunks of meat and not 124 00:08:50.870 --> 00:08:53.590 have to spend so much time cutting it into small pieces. 125 00:08:54.110 --> 00:08:57.690 You buy a little tiny meat grinder and you're going 126 00:08:57.710 --> 00:08:59.320 to have to cut your pieces smaller. You're going to 127 00:08:59.340 --> 00:09:01.299 have to be a lot more careful about not getting 128 00:09:01.340 --> 00:09:04.830 a piece of grizzle in there that's going to it's 129 00:09:04.850 --> 00:09:07.769 going to slow things down and maybe even make it stop. 130 00:09:07.830 --> 00:09:11.269 And you have to tear it apart and pull the, 131 00:09:11.889 --> 00:09:13.629 pull the stuff out of there and put it all 132 00:09:13.669 --> 00:09:16.029 back together. And it's just a pain and it makes 133 00:09:16.220 --> 00:09:20.620 grinding meat, not a fun process, but go the biggest, 134 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:25.320 the biggest that you possibly can. Chill your meat, chill your, well, 135 00:09:25.340 --> 00:09:29.500 your fat's going to be frozen anyway. And, and chill 136 00:09:29.539 --> 00:09:35.159 your components in the freezer. And I guess that's, all 137 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:42.470 the advice I could give on it. Um, yeah. Okay. 138 00:09:42.610 --> 00:09:48.649 So the next question comes from Jill and she says, Scott, 139 00:09:49.049 --> 00:09:54.169 my husband and I and our children have a six 140 00:09:54.289 --> 00:09:59.330 acre homestead in the Northeast. We would like to begin 141 00:09:59.409 --> 00:10:03.539 producing meat. Up till now, we've just been producing vegetables 142 00:10:03.620 --> 00:10:09.419 and planting fruit trees. What species do you recommend for 143 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:16.740 raising meat on a small acreage homestead? So to me, 144 00:10:16.940 --> 00:10:20.500 three species... jump out right away that I think of 145 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:32.059 immediately and that would be pigs and broiler chickens and 146 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:37.100 rabbits so let's start with pigs pigs I like on 147 00:10:37.139 --> 00:10:39.799 a small acreage homestead because you don't need a ton 148 00:10:39.850 --> 00:10:42.470 of space for pigs obviously the more space you give 149 00:10:42.490 --> 00:10:46.779 them the better um But pigs can be held in 150 00:10:46.950 --> 00:10:51.730 with a couple strands of electric wire. They don't require 151 00:10:51.789 --> 00:10:56.929 much for shelter. And one of the great things about 152 00:10:56.970 --> 00:11:01.330 pigs is that it gives you a place for garden scraps, 153 00:11:02.070 --> 00:11:12.409 kitchen scraps, canning scraps. You can recycle a lot of 154 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:17.409 the nutrients on your homestead by feeding them to the 155 00:11:17.450 --> 00:11:24.480 pigs and turning it into bacon and sausage and ham. Pigs, 156 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:30.480 usually what we do is we get our piglets in 157 00:11:30.700 --> 00:11:34.080 early June, and if you start them out in early June, 158 00:11:34.100 --> 00:11:39.740 then they'll be ready to butcher sometime between Thanksgiving and 159 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:46.059 the end of November. We like to have everything wrapped 160 00:11:46.120 --> 00:11:50.100 up butchering by the end of November. The weather's cool enough. 161 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:55.730 But pigs are just a really great meat animal. You 162 00:11:55.750 --> 00:11:58.490 get a decent amount of meat off of them. I 163 00:11:58.690 --> 00:12:03.909 don't usually recommend people jumping right in and trying to 164 00:12:03.950 --> 00:12:08.159 have their own sows and raise their own piglets that way. 165 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.480 At least in our area, there's enough piglets on the 166 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:20.230 market that rather than have the expensive. Keeping the sows, 167 00:12:20.669 --> 00:12:24.190 it just seems to make more sense just to buy 168 00:12:24.230 --> 00:12:27.840 the piglets in June, especially if you haven't done it before. 169 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:31.080 Find out whether or not you like raising pigs before 170 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:36.600 you get into it any deeper than that. But, you know, 171 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:39.559 you can put up a gravity feeder. fill it with 172 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:43.429 pig feed, and then supplement with scraps. You say you've 173 00:12:43.450 --> 00:12:48.529 got fruit trees and stuff, any dropped apples, scrap apples 174 00:12:48.610 --> 00:12:56.240 that you're not going to end up using, acorns, there's 175 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:59.600 just a tremendous amount of stuff that you can supplement 176 00:12:59.980 -->

00:13:03.419 pigs with. And it gives you a place to get 177 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:08.009 rid of some of your waste materials around the homestead. 178 00:13:08.590 --> 00:13:13.509 The next one would be meat chickens. I'm a big 179 00:13:13.570 --> 00:13:16.230 fan of Cornish cross. I know everybody's got their own 180 00:13:16.269 --> 00:13:20.330 opinions on what, but a Cornish cross is pretty hard 181 00:13:20.370 --> 00:13:22.960 to beat. You can have them finished in eight weeks, 182 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:28.419 quick turnaround. You can have them in tractors. You can 183 00:13:28.460 --> 00:13:31.659 have them in a pen. You can have them out 184 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:36.179 running around with electric netting and a little shelter. There's 185 00:13:36.220 --> 00:13:40.409 a lot of different ways that you can work that 186 00:13:40.549 --> 00:13:45.889 into your existing homestead. You can use them to fertilize 187 00:13:46.490 --> 00:13:51.350 pasture ground. You can use them for a lot of 188 00:13:51.370 --> 00:13:54.590 different ways that you can raise them. But you get 189 00:13:54.629 --> 00:13:58.559 finished product in eight weeks. They're easy to butcher. It 190 00:13:58.620 --> 00:14:08.220 doesn't require a ton of equipment. The third one which 191 00:14:08.340 --> 00:14:13.240 is rabbits. Rabbits are often overlooked by a lot of 192 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:17.279 people for being a good meat source on a small 193 00:14:17.340 --> 00:14:21.960 acreage homestead. We've raised rabbits over the years. We currently 194 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.019 don't have any right now, but I did hear some 195 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:29.190 of the boys the other day talking about getting back 196 00:14:29.269 --> 00:14:33.509 into raising some meat rabbits. So meat rabbits are great 197 00:14:33.610 --> 00:14:36.889 on small acreage homesteads because, you know, they don't take 198 00:14:36.950 --> 00:14:40.429 up a lot of space. Two does and a buck, 199 00:14:40.450 --> 00:14:45.330 if managed properly, and get them bred back and keep 200 00:14:45.350 --> 00:14:51.409 them producing, and you can produce a phenomenal amount of 201 00:14:51.429 --> 00:14:59.600 meat every year from those small little animals. Yeah, just, 202 00:15:00.100 --> 00:15:03.759 I would, Give serious consideration to meat rabbits. And meat 203 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:08.679 rabbits give you, well, they give you a lot of 204 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:13.840 manure as well. And rabbit manure doesn't even have to 205 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:17.860 be composted to be good fertilizer for your garden. It 206 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:25.659 can be added straight. It's a phenomenal fertility tool that 207 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:29.240 you can have in your toolbox. You get the meat. 208 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:35.470 and real high quality fertilizer for the garden. So yeah, 209 00:15:35.500 --> 00:15:41.330 those are three things that I would consider in your case. Pigs, 210 00:15:42.250

--> 00:15:48.690 meat chickens, and meat rabbits. Okay, the next one comes 211 00:15:48.809 --> 00:15:53.149 from Ethan. It says, Scott loved the show, was just 212 00:15:53.210 --> 00:15:57.470 curious what you guys up there Use for deer rifles. 213 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:00.230 Do you have a favorite caliber? Do you have a 214 00:16:00.909 --> 00:16:08.789 favorite model? So, yeah, you'd get a different answer from 215 00:16:08.850 --> 00:16:14.059 every member of the family on this one. We... I 216 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:19.279 guess I'll chop it up into two different categories. For 217 00:16:20.100 --> 00:16:22.240 a good woods gun, if we're hunting in the woods 218 00:16:22.299 --> 00:16:28.230 around here, you're not taking... very long shots and in 219 00:16:28.269 --> 00:16:32.909 the woods I prefer open sights we usually carry lever 220 00:16:32.980 --> 00:16:34.309 guns in the woods here. 221 00:16:35.840 --> 00:16:36.500 We have. 222 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:43.659 Oh let's see got a Winchester 94 and 30-30 Marlin 223 00:16:43.659 --> 00:16:53.110 336 and 30-30 those are both nice rifles the other 224 00:16:53.139 --> 00:16:55.649 two lever guns that we like to use in the 225 00:16:55.710 --> 00:17:02.330 woods are, um, some Savage Model 99s, which I should 226 00:17:02.350 --> 00:17:05.750 do a whole episode on the Savage 99, that's a 227 00:17:05.809 --> 00:17:11.940 really interesting, interesting rifle, um, but we've got two Model 99s, 228 00:17:11.930 --> 00:17:15.079 one is from 1920-something, and the other one is a 229 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:24.210 mid-1950s model, um, The older one is in. 30- 30 and 230 00:17:24.269 --> 00:17:33.109 the newer one is in. 300 Savage. But. 30- 30,. 300 231 00:17:33.109 --> 00:17:38.970 Savage and a lever gun are really nice woods guns 232 00:17:40.269 --> 00:17:42.369 for hunting in the woods. Now, if we're taking longer 233 00:17:42.410 --> 00:17:46.410 shots in hay fields and tree fields and stuff like that, 234 00:17:46.990 --> 00:17:55.799 then my go-to rifle is... it's a Harrington and Richardson 235 00:17:56.839 --> 00:18:04.259 Ultra Hunter single shot break action in. 308 and it's 236 00:18:04.339 --> 00:18:10.339 not a fancy gun but it is extremely accurate I 237 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:15.109 love the old handy rifle style which that's what it 238 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:17.869 is it's like the old New England firearms H & 239 00:18:17.490 --> 00:18:21.630 R handy rifle they came in a million different calibers 240 00:18:21.730 --> 00:18:25.470 but they're short, they're light, they're well balanced. They're easy 241 00:18:25.509 --> 00:18:29.109 to carry, um, easy to mount a scope on them. 242 00:18:30.250 --> 00:18:33.390 And you know, the amount of times that you take 243 00:18:33.430 --> 00:18:35.640 a second shot on a deer, if you're going to 244 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:38.259 shoot a second time, you probably ain't going to hit 245 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:43.019 it anyway. So I really

liked that single shot 308. 246 00:18:43.019 --> 00:18:45.460 I've killed a lot of deer with that gun and it's, 247 00:18:46.180 --> 00:18:49.099 it's my personal favorite. That's the one that I use 248 00:18:49.779 --> 00:18:55.220 most often. Um, And the other boys, they've got some, 249 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:59.309 I think there's a Remington 730-06, Ruger M77, and 270. 250 00:18:59.289 --> 00:19:00.740 270 is a really good deer cartridge. 30-06s, 308, those 251 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:20.819 are our main go-to deer calibers up here. And, yeah, 252 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:25.970 they're probably the most popular among everybody in the region. 253 00:19:27.250 --> 00:19:30.720 Bolt actions, we're looking at 0.6s,. 308s,. 270s, and lever guns. 254 00:19:30.730 --> 00:19:33.109 30- 30 and. 300 Savage are probably the two most popular 255 00:19:33.130 --> 00:19:47.960 calibers and lever guns up here. Okay, the next question 256 00:19:48.099 --> 00:19:53.250 comes from Jolene. She says, Scott, really enjoy your podcast. 257 00:19:53.309 --> 00:19:55.930 Just recently found it and listening to a lot of 258 00:19:55.950 --> 00:20:01.079 the back episodes. I have a fruit tree question. Five 259 00:20:01.119 --> 00:20:05.680 years ago, my husband planted three honeycrisp apple trees and 260 00:20:05.740 --> 00:20:09.890 they have never produced fruit. Is there something that we 261 00:20:09.930 --> 00:20:14.710 can do to make them produce fruit? Are we doing 262 00:20:14.809 --> 00:20:18.990 something wrong? I don't know. They look wonderful, but we 263 00:20:19.019 --> 00:20:23.740 don't get any fruit from them. So I'm going to 264 00:20:23.859 --> 00:20:26.859 guess what the problem is here. I'm going to guess 265 00:20:26.900 --> 00:20:29.880 that you don't have any other apple trees on your homestead. 266 00:20:31.059 --> 00:20:35.819 And actually, I get this question a lot here at 267 00:20:35.859 --> 00:20:41.089 the nursery. That is not the first time that I've 268 00:20:41.430 --> 00:20:47.079 heard this question. So you have to understand how apples reproduce. 269 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:56.160 Apples have to have pollen from a different variety to 270 00:20:56.200 --> 00:21:00.799 make fruit. So two Honeycrisp apples are not going to 271 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:03.980 pollinate each other. Three Honeycrisp apples are not going to 272 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:09.150 pollinate each other either. You have to have another variety 273 00:21:09.970 --> 00:21:17.250 that blooms at the same time. So, this is why 274 00:21:17.349 --> 00:21:20.779 when I'm selling fruit trees here, I always have people 275 00:21:21.299 --> 00:21:23.420 show up here and, well, this is the kind of 276 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:25.380 apple I want. I want to plant four of them. 277 00:21:26.019 --> 00:21:28.759 And I always, I could sell them them four trees, 278 00:21:29.980 --> 00:21:35.759 but I always ask them, okay, do you have any 279 00:21:35.819 --> 00:21:39.359 other apple trees and if so what type of apple 280 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:42.319 trees do you have because a lot of people don't 281 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:49.309 understand this basic bit of biology so you gotta have 282 00:21:49.849 --> 00:21:53.470 different varieties and they have to bloom at the same 283 00:21:53.569 --> 00:21:58.470 time so I keep a list here of the bloom 284 00:21:58.509 --> 00:22:01.390 times for all the different varieties of apple that we 285 00:22:01.450 --> 00:22:06.990 have and I help people put together the right mix 286 00:22:07.269 --> 00:22:12.089 of varieties so that they'll, one, get fruit, and two, 287 00:22:12.430 --> 00:22:14.569 get the type of apples that they want to get. 288 00:22:16.130 --> 00:22:20.329 But I'm guessing, without a lot of other information, and 289 00:22:20.369 --> 00:22:24.190 if I'm wrong, if you've got other varieties, then email 290 00:22:24.210 --> 00:22:27.390 me back and tell me. But I'm guessing that that's 291 00:22:27.410 --> 00:22:31.769 your problem. You have to find another variety of apple 292 00:22:32.730 --> 00:22:39.549 that blooms at the same time. And you will get fruit. 293 00:22:41.329 --> 00:22:48.769 I believe the Macintosh blooms at the same time as Honeycrisp. 294 00:22:49.569 --> 00:22:51.430 This stuff isn't fresh in my head at the moment 295 00:22:51.450 --> 00:22:53.799 because I've moved out of selling fruit trees this time 296 00:22:53.819 --> 00:22:55.500 of the year and I'm on to doing other stuff. 297 00:22:56.160 --> 00:23:02.000 But if it's a mid-season bloom, find another apple that's 298 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:06.630 a mid-season bloom. But I know we like to pair 299 00:23:07.210 --> 00:23:10.769 the Macintosh and the Honeycrisp. They will pollinate each other. 300 00:23:11.809 --> 00:23:15.430 But that's the key to getting fruit from apple trees. 301 00:23:16.150 --> 00:23:21.440 And you get into pears and stuff like that. That's 302 00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:24.920 a little different. That's more complicated because only certain varieties 303 00:23:25.019 --> 00:23:28.539 will pollinate each other. It's not so much on the 304 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:34.609 bloom time as it is actual individual varieties that will 305 00:23:35.490 --> 00:23:40.380 pollinate the other varieties. And then just in case somebody's wondering, 306 00:23:40.539 --> 00:23:53.150 you know, there's cherries, they're self-fruitful. Your plums, self-fruitful. Peaches, self-fruitful. 307 00:23:53.490 --> 00:23:57.329 You don't have to have pollinators for those, but you 308 00:23:57.369 --> 00:24:01.190 do have to have, you do have to have pollinators 309 00:24:01.319 --> 00:24:05.130 for apples, and it can't be can't be the same 310 00:24:05.210 --> 00:24:10.559 variety so hope that helps you out Jolene you probably 311 00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:14.259 want to go either this fall or next spring to 312 00:24:14.460 --> 00:24:19.539 uh wherever you buy your apple trees hopefully from a 313 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:24.490 independent grower retailer and go and explain your situation to 314 00:24:24.529 --> 00:24:27.470 them and they can help you find uh find the 315 00:24:27.549 --> 00:24:33.059 right variety All right, so that's going to wrap it 316 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:37.259 up for this episode. I got a few more questions, 317 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:40.099 but I've got to get moving on. Got a couple 318 00:24:40.140 --> 00:24:44.039 other projects that I've got to get done today. Yeah, 319 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:46.160 so I've got a lot of stuff going on behind 320 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:50.119 the scenes. Some of it I can't really talk about 321 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:57.309 just yet. It's in partnership with some other folks. All 322 00:24:57.390 --> 00:25:03.099 I can say is we'll be launching it in February 323 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:05.779 and I'm sure it's something that a lot of you 324 00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:08.140 guys will be interested in so make sure you're on 325 00:25:08.180 --> 00:25:13.700 the on the email list you go to ourlifeuphere.com and 326 00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:18.430 just sign up for the email newsletter and that'll be 327 00:25:18.450 --> 00:25:23.490 a way that you'll be able to get information on 328 00:25:23.549 --> 00:25:25.569 this when it comes out I mean I'll talk about 329 00:25:25.589 --> 00:25:27.609 it on the show when I can too but I 330 00:25:27.630 --> 00:25:30.269 will send out an email when we get everything nailed 331 00:25:30.309 --> 00:25:34.299 down as to how exactly it's going to all work 332 00:25:34.420 --> 00:25:37.700 out but pretty excited about it but it's also a 333 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:40.880 lot of work a lot of work on the back 334 00:25:40.940 --> 00:25:48.390 end putting together educational things so yeah if you're not 335 00:25:48.730 --> 00:25:53.549 on the email list please go sign up for that 336 00:25:54.089 --> 00:25:58.410 and I will catch you next week