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Farm Art Friday: duck pit

November 28, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

Farm Art Friday: Duck Pit

Hidden beneath flat rice fields, duck pits are difficult to spot from the road. I climbed down into this one buried on our farm in Mississippi County. From inside, the view is quite different, the small space like a secret.

Happy Friday and good luck to all those participating in the world championship duck calling contest today in Stuttgart!

And to you Black Friday shoppers…have mercy. I’ll be watching football and maybe hanging Christmas lights.

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

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World Championship Duck Calling Contest 2013

Filed Under: Arkansas, Farm Tagged With: duck hunting, farm art, Mississippi County

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Comments

  1. Barbara Tate says

    November 28, 2014 at 7:53 am

    I had a “duck pit” and didn’t know it. Lol. For years!!

  2. Colene and Tom says

    November 28, 2014 at 10:43 am

    Was the criteria for the winner being long winded? LOL

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      November 29, 2014 at 7:18 am

      I think so Colene!!

  3. Debbie says

    November 28, 2014 at 11:20 am

    Your duck pit is more artfully decorated than ours:) Well, I guess you could count the layer of mud with embedded empty shells!


Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

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