You read my comment! Thank you Pa Mack🤗 I have to admit I didn’t know what onomatopoeia was! One Google search later, I think schnick must indeed be an onomatopoeia. Although, I’m not sure it’s an official word because the spelling police on my keyboard tried to change it… several times.🤗❤️🐝
A hundred years or so back they called the farmers around my neck of the woods, stump farmers. Most burned off the land at least a few years in a row. My land is 80% back to forest.
Savanna is another word for it if their are trees & Prarie for without trees. Grasslands & Plains are usually used for flat geography. Most people use them interchangeably, though.
I'm told that each year they pulled more stumps and picked more rocks. I have rock piles everywhere. They never become self sufficient. The kids all moved to the city and in the end the land and woods won the fight. Most are hobby farmers or hunting/recreational. This far north there isn't much that grows in such infertile thin soil, with only 100 days of growing season. We seldom even get a second cutting of hay. Great fishing and hunting though
I've been here 3 years... broad leaf weeds doesn't cover it. Poke weed, black berries, rag weed, golden rod and vines of thorns that look like what they put on Jesus head, are everywhere! The tulip poplars are really difficult to keep from coming back also.
I don't know what kind of livestock you may have, but ruminant animals love them. and Tulip Poplar is wonderful for harvesting Tree Hay. An ancient practice that goes back to Roman times. If life gives you lemons...
Depends where you live. Here in the dry southwest, grass grows fast in different seasons. Getting the carbon content high is imperative in the first year or two, otherwise the grass will sprout, but not stay around. The Biblical analogy about seed on good soil comes to mind.
