Aug 2, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
Weeds have a way of showing up where they aren't wanted. If they're left alone, they slowly take over and choke out the things meant to grow. In this episode of First Light, Chuck shares how the same…
They're on my mind.
And yesterday we went down, we had two sunflower fields we planted at different times, hoping that they would... produce sunflowers apart from each other so that we might be able to have several hunts.
But this other field is a little bit farther down the road from where our house is, and it's a little harder to get to.
It's a beautiful field, and it would have been great.
And so we've had to give up on that field of sunflowers down there.
It's a beautiful field, but right now it's filled with weeds and it won't be any good to us.
I'm not a farmer, but we do farming because it's associated with what we do here on our farm in terms of hunting.
Our Cropland is farmed by a real farmer who knows how to fight weeds, and I'm going to tell you that's a big problem when you try to grow plants.
I remember trying to grow sweet corn.
Almost my whole adult life, I've been trying to grow the best sweet corn that anybody could ever hope to eat, and I've never succeeded.
This year, we got some sweet corn from our good friend in Somerville.
And he is great at it.
And he knows that in order for sweet corn to be just right when you eat it, you need to pick it on the right day.
And one day we had a little patch of sweet corn.
One of the years when I kept trying to plant sweet corn, now I just eat Corbett's corn.
But I was trying, and I had a patch of maybe a quarter of an acre.
It was probably less than that, maybe even a tenth of an acre, but it felt like 500 acres when I was trying to fight the weeds.
One day I was out there.
I didn't know how to spray.
I didn't have the right kind of spraying equipment.
I didn't know the... combinations of what chemicals could be sprayed.
They're on my mind.
And yesterday we went down, we had two sunflower fields we planted at different times, hoping that they would... produce sunflowers apart from each other so that we might be able to have several hunts.
But this other field is a little bit farther down the road from where our house is, and it's a little harder to get to.
It's a beautiful field, and it would have been great.
And so we've had to give up on that field of sunflowers down there.
It's a beautiful field, but right now it's filled with weeds and it won't be any good to us.
I'm not a farmer, but we do farming because it's associated with what we do here on our farm in terms of hunting.
Our Cropland is farmed by a real farmer who knows how to fight weeds, and I'm going to tell you that's a big problem when you try to grow plants.
I remember trying to grow sweet corn.
Almost my whole adult life, I've been trying to grow the best sweet corn that anybody could ever hope to eat, and I've never succeeded.
This year, we got some sweet corn from our good friend in Somerville.
And he is great at it.
And he knows that in order for sweet corn to be just right when you eat it, you need to pick it on the right day.
And one day we had a little patch of sweet corn.
One of the years when I kept trying to plant sweet corn, now I just eat Corbett's corn.
But I was trying, and I had a patch of maybe a quarter of an acre.
It was probably less than that, maybe even a tenth of an acre, but it felt like 500 acres when I was trying to fight the weeds.
One day I was out there.
I didn't know how to spray.
I didn't have the right kind of spraying equipment.
I didn't know the... combinations of what chemicals could be sprayed.
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