Falling Leaves

    Fall is such a beautiful time of year. The air is crisp and the leaves the are turning. It is the perfect time to curl up with a warm cup of apple cider. However, what exactly is it that turns the leaves' color?

    Trees use photosynthesis to create its food. With sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, plants can create glucose and oxygen. Chlorophyll is a chemical that helps in the process of photosynthesis and is also what makes leaves green. In the fall, trees begin shutting down in preparation for winter. When this happens, all of the chlorophyll disappears. When the chlorophyll is gone, the yellow and orange colors become visible. These colors have been in the leaves all summer long, but have been covered up by the green. Some trees have glucose trapped in their leaves and when it cools off, the glucose turns a red color. This causes the leaves to appear red or sometimes even a shade of purple. As winter gets closer, the leaves will fall off of the trees. The trees will go into a sort of hibernation in which they are no longer creating food. They will survive till spring on the glucose they have stored up.

Hunting Season

    Hunting has been a way of life for people for centuries. It was 18,000 years ago that bows were invented and used to kill game. Dogs were domesticated about 15,000 years ago to aid in hunting. When agriculture and raising animals became part of life, hunting still continued. Farmers continued hunting to eliminate animals that were preying on their domestic animals. Although, hunting became more of a sport than a neccesity. It was a luxury for upper class Europeans and they were the ones that made hunting into a sport or game. This is where the usage of the word "game" meaning hunted animals came about. In modern times hunting is a sport that is available for anyone. However, due to over hunting in many places, regulations have been set. There are now certain times of the year in which hunting is permitted. Here in America, a lot of hunting occurs in the fall. Hunting season has already began in many places across the US. When the game is killed, there are of course things that need to be done before it is ready for consumption. Some of these things include skinning and gutting the animal. To do this a proper skinner knife is needed. Silver Stag offers a wide variety of skinner knives. Visit our website dovecreektradingcompany.com purchase a skinner knife or any other knives you might need for hunting this year.

Silver Stag knife, Big Game Gutter,SV8020, Crown Series

Simpson's Family Farm

    Simpson's Family Farm is famous around the Ozarks for Chandler strawberries. They have been operating a pick your own strawberry business for around 30 years. Simpson's helps a lot in the educational field. The farm has given many tours to Missouri State University's Fruit Experiment Station students. They were one of the first farms in Missouri to grow strawberries on plastic. More recently they have been working on growing plants in a green house. Every year they grow strawberry plugs for other growers and individuals as well as themselves.  This year they grew 120,000 plugs. 40,000 of which they planted on the farm. It takes two full days of planting to get them all in the ground.

If you are interested in purchasing Chandler strawberry plugs visit our website.

Time is running out to get yours.