Habitats & Food Plots

Brassicas - Favorite Late Summer Planting

Every type of plant for food plots has a "best" season to plant it. In the case of brassicas, that season is now. From August through September is the time to get these plants in the ground. Brassicas include plants such as kale, turnips, rape, radishes and others.

Saving Fawns from Coyote Predation

Study after study has demonstrated that bears, coyotes, and even bobcats prey heavily on fawns. Coyotes seem to be getting the most attention by hunters and for good reason. Coyote populations are burgeoning in most areas. Where they were once critters of the cactus and tumbleweed they now are showing up in cornfields and acorn flats. They've moved into neighborhoods and would just as soon make a meal of your pet tabby as chase a jackrabbit through a patch of cactus.

Go Native With Wildlife Habitat

Wildlife food plots provide tons of high quality nutrition to whitetails and are a cornerstone of most well managed deer properties. But, before you get all wrapped up in an expensive food plot program, you would be wise to do some work with your property's native vegetation.

 

How to Grow the Best Clover Food Plots

Clover can be a great addition to any wildlife manager's tool bag in providing quality forage and hunting areas. Watch right here to find out everything we do to keep clover in our food plots for years to come! If you think mowing is the key -- you'll think differently after watching this video.

How to Create Woodland Openings for Wildlife

Got a hundred acres and no deer? Haven't heard a grouse drum since you were a kid? Wish you could find a few bunnies to start the kids on or show them a love-sick woodcock circling a clearing? If your answer to any of the above is yes, think wildlife openings.

 

Keeping Shooting Skills Sharp and a QDMA Visit

Watch this episode as Heath and Lindsey Martin visit us here at The Proving Grounds where they work to keep their shooting skills sharp by Groundhog hunting! Lindsey proves she's got what it takes come deer season by taking out not one, but two bean munchers! While they are having fun hunting, the Quality Deer Management Association visits us as part of the Deer Steward II coursework.