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08/31/2026

Forgot to post yesterday ❤️🌱

Getting ready for next spring in my garden area. I will plant 🥒cucumbers 🍈squash, whatever I decide to vine over on this trellis, and I’ve got another one to make also.

I’m not going to replace the 🦆🦆🦆🦆ducks until 🌱spring.

I also added some 🐷hog panels to the outside of my “x1” wire so they cannot push through… The Fox 🦊or coyotes or whatever and get in to them.

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08/30/2026

Concrete tunnels are fun too…

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08/29/2026

Do you ever have those 🌅mornings you know you have so much you want to accomplish…

But you’re having trouble 😳deciding what to start on first and the motivation to get started on that first project…

At least the guys are motivated they’re saddling horses to work them and themselves on cattle 🐂while it’s cool 😎

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08/29/2026

Howdy Folks! 🐝🫐

Welcome to the Better Equine Ranch & Farm🌱🌱🐝! I got me a New Hat 🤠what do you think! I ❤️love it!

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Heartland American Elderberry Co

08/28/2026

Butch and the 🐈‍⬛🐈kitties were all alittle 🤪wild tonight!

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08/27/2026

More Elderberry processing Lessons! I’m crazy about elderberries and hope to have a bigger harvest to share in 2027!

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Heartland American Elderberry Co

Harvest Processing lesson learned:
Cleaning before processing takes more time than expected.
If you are, like many of us, working on equipment outside then one thing quickly becomes obvious:
Outdoor equipment gets dirty - even when it hasn’t been used. Before a single berry can touch the equipment, every food-contact surface has to be thoroughly cleaned and sanitized.
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08/27/2026

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08/27/2026

A little Graphic 🤮but good for learning what is working for us;

Boy are we receiving the 🛑bad luck in 3s… hopefully this one is fixable… as the other 2 were not…

One of our black 🐈‍⬛Manx female kittens had a sore “blow out” above her 💩area on her rear end.

Luckily Neighbor Sheila seen it while checking everything and took fast action…. because… it was already full of 😵‍💫maggots 🤮

A-little dawn dish 🫧soap, 💦water, peroxide and 🧴cream fixed Pricilla ✅ right up for the day….

Friday evening we will start putting a dry medicine powder on her..
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I hope this is it for troubles on the ranch.. Whew 😥 Thanks Neighbor Sheila 🐈‍⬛ from Pricilla ❤️

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08/27/2026

I’m thinking about putting some of these Pocahontas in my elderberry orchard next year. I have Ranch & Wild native varieties now…

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Info about American elderberry cultivars: Pocahontas
● Origin: University of Missouri (2019)
● Heavy producer, excellent quality
● Vigorous, tall, strong upright growth
● Exceptionally large, evenly ripening clusters
● Late ripening — a few days later than Bob Gordon
● Popular in more southerly latitudes
● Canes susceptible to wind damage