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Has it come & gone? There were some that came up in early September. Been to my best woods twice in 2 weeks & nothing. It's been pretty quiet, haven't heard of guys finding them.

I found 1 hen yesterday & this morning I went to my best hen woods & only saw 1 young one. Some guys are killing them but not me, not yet. Good luck!

Try a couple & see. I heard leaving the black mess on the shells effects the flavor. But there's only one way to know. I'm still eating the ones I processed last year & the ones I'm getting now will need a few months to cure. Trees are really loaded this year.

Big walnuts,chicken, hen & a cat.

Looks like berkeley or black staining polypores . Had to be a tree there once. At first I thought hens, to bad.

Right, I know leaf fat comes from around the guts . Regular fat that comes from around muscle has bits of muscle & skin that results in the cracklings when rendered. Wouldn't that make leaf fat a purer fat ?

Great Info!

My local butcher(Buckeye Meats) has both pig fat & beef fat. They don't carry lard or tallow. The next closest ( Tierra Verde) carries lard. I wouldn't buy tallow or lard from walmart ,amazon ect. unless it was pure with nothing else added. I can buy the beef fat & make my own. When I buy the...

I haven't tried tallow. It doesn't seem to be as available as lard. Where do you get it.

I don't eat breakfast until noon-1 o'clock. Is that fasting, LOL. I don't eat past 8 in the evening & that's nuts or fruit. That's 16 hours. Just not hungry until noon.

I feel great! I have more energy than I know what to do with. I'm 67, I quit drinking a couple years ago when I retired. I was still overweight because I replaced the beer with sprite. My doctor said I should take a statin because my cholesterol was going up. I quit the pop & my changed my diet...

I also changed my diet about 6 months ago. Went from 235 to 185. Food industry has lied to us for 100 years. Crisco & vegetable oils, margarines, all crap. I just bought 4 quarts of lard from a local farm today. I was running low. I was making my own lard but found this farm & it's almost the...

Anyone seeing any yet? Thinking the cool weather this week will get them going.

Berries are a little late this year but making some good cobblers now that they're here.

Rains have brought some good stuff up.

Sounds like pure torture.

Wow, that is very early. I don't see them until middle of July.

Yes, you have oysters.

I saw that one. What a fish story.

Been lots of golden oysters popping up. Found this log today.