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Monroe Gun Knife Show

August 19 August 20

Monroe Gun Knife Show

The Monroe Gun Knife Show data and specifics can be found at the promoters website. Please always check with the promoter before the show for last minute changes.

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Gun Show Dates

Aug 19th – 20th, 2023
Monroe, Michigan

Show Times

Saturday: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am – 3:00pm

Admission

General: $8.00; Active Military and Seniors $1.00 off

Gun Show Information

Always check the promoters website for change in dates, cost or any discounts available. The Monroe Gun & Knife Show will be held in Monroe, MI. This Monroe gun show is held at Monroe County Fairgrounds and hosted by Sport Shows Promotions.

Promoter

Sport Shows Promotions
Phone: (517) 393-7243
Email: sportshows@gmail.com
Website: http://www.migunshows.com

Location

First Merchants Bank Expo Center
3775 S Custer Road
Monroe, MI 48161

Please always check with the promoter before the show for last minute changes

If you are a promoter and would like to list your shows – email us

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Gun ownership is the second amendment to the US Constitution. The fact it is number two identifies just how important it was considered – free speech being number one. If you are a hunter, sport shooter, an outdoors lover, whatever you need to stand up and be counted. Go to enjoy your rights and attend a Michigan gun show. The Cadillac Gun Knife Show like all gun shows require all participants to observe both federal and state gun laws.

We update gun show schedules frequently and add gun shows as new ones are scheduled. We strive to verify all Michigan gun shows and provide information relevant to both potential vendors and participants. When possible, always check the show promoter website for extra information or updates of the gun show we may not yet have on our Michigan gun show websites.

We list gun shows in multiple states. You can check out other gun shows in other states near you. Go to our main page at: https://traderscreek.com/gun-shows/

Details

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August 19
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August 20
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Organizer

Sport Shows Promotions
Phone:
(517) 676-4160
Email:
sportshows@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.migunshows.com
3775 S Custer Road
Monroe, Michigan 48161 United States
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Original Grand Rapids Gun Knife Show

June 10 June 11

Original Grand Rapids Gun Knife Show

More information about the Original Grand Rapids Gun Knife Show can be found at the promoters website or contacting them directly.  Federal, state and local firearm ordinances and laws should be observed

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Gun Show Dates

June 10th – 11th, 2023
Sept 9th – 10th, 2023
Oct 21st – 22nd, 2023
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Show Times

Saturday: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am – 3:00pm

Admission

General: $8.00; Active Military and Seniors $1.00 off

Gun Show Information

Always check the promoters website for change in dates, cost or any discounts available. The The Original Grand Rapids Gun & Knife Show will be held in Grand Rapids, MI. This Grand Rapids gun show is held at 4 Mile Showplace and hosted by Sport Shows Promotions.

Promoter

Sport Shows Promotions
Phone: (517) 393-7243
Email: sportshows@gmail.com
Website: http://www.migunshows.com

Location

4 Mile Showplace
1025 Four Mile Rd NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49544

Please always check with the promoter before the show for last minute changes

If you are a promoter and would like to list your shows – email us

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The Grand Rapids Gun Knife Show like all gun shows require all participants to observe both federal and state gun laws.

We update gun show schedules frequently and add gun shows as new ones are scheduled. We strive to verify all Michigan gun shows and provide information relevant to both potential vendors and participants. When possible, always check the show promoter website for extra information or updates of the gun show we may not yet have on our Michigan gun show websites.

We list gun shows in multiple states. You can check out other gun shows in other states near you. Go to our main page at: https://traderscreek.com/gun-shows/

Details

Start:
June 10
End:
June 11
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Organizer

Sport Shows Promotions
Phone:
(517) 676-4160
Email:
sportshows@gmail.com
Website:
http://www.migunshows.com
1025 Four Mile Rd NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49544 United States
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Cadillac Gun Knife Show

January 14 January 15

Cadillac Gun Knife Show

The Cadillac Gun Knife Show data and specifics can be found at the promoters website. Please always check with the promoter before the show for last minute changes.

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We encourage travelers to call ahead and visit websites to confirm plans. Please note that all federal, state and local firearm ordinances and laws must be obeyed to avoid having more common sense gun laws

Gun Show Dates

Jan 14th – 15th, 2023
Cadillac, Michigan

Show Times

Saturday: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 10:00am – 3:00pm

Admission

General: $8.00; Children 12 & under: Free; Active Military and Seniors $1.00 off

Gun Show Information

Always check the promoters website for change in dates, cost or any discounts available. The Cadillac Gun & Knife Show will be held in Cadillac, MI. This Cadillac gun show is held at Wexford Civic Center and hosted by PJS Promotions LLC

Promoter

PJS Promotions LLC
Contact: Pamela Smith
Phone: (989) 798-8709
Email: mtmm1@yahoo.com

Location

Wexford Civic Center
1320 N Mitchell
Cadillac, MI 49601

Please always check with the promoter before the show for last minute changes

If you are a promoter and would like to list your shows – email us

Back to Michigan gun Shows

Go to NRA

Gun ownership is the second amendment to the US Constitution. The fact it is number two identifies just how important it was considered – free speech being number one. If you are a hunter, sport shooter, an outdoors lover, whatever you need to stand up and be counted. Go to enjoy your rights and attend a Michigan gun show. The Cadillac Gun Knife Show like all gun shows require all participants to observe both federal and state gun laws.

We update gun show schedules frequently and add gun shows as new ones are scheduled. We strive to verify all Michigan gun shows and provide information relevant to both potential vendors and participants. When possible, always check the show promoter website for extra information or updates of the gun show we may not yet have on our Michigan gun show websites.

We list gun shows in multiple states. You can check out other gun shows in other states near you. Go to our main page at: https://traderscreek.com/gun-shows/

Details

Start:
January 14
End:
January 15
Event Category:
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Organizer

PJS Promotions LLC
Phone:
(989) 798-8709
Email:
mtmm1@yahoo.com
1320 N Mitchell
Cadillac, MI 49601 United States
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Hazelnut Plant Identification Guide

Hazelnut Plant Identification Guide

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General

The Hazelnut is a native shrub to North America. You should be able to, except for the US southwest and Gulf coast, find hazelnut plants growing. Once located, remember where they are since nuts are an important food source. Count yourself lucky if you can forage such a free food. Their leaves, twigs, and catkins (male flowers) are important for wildlife. They are browsed by rabbits, deer, and moose and are winter food for turkey and ruffed grouse to name just a few of the dependent animals. The dense shrub provides cover and nesting sites for many wildlife species.

This plant has separate male and female parts on the same branch. A single shrub will produce some nuts, but as a wind-pollinated species 3-5 shrubs are recommended for optimal nut production.

Common names

American hazelnut, American Filbert, American hazel, America hazelnut, beaked hazelnut, California hazelnut

Description

The shrub is deciduous and grows from 3’ – 15’ tall. Once established, it grows by its spreading rhizomes forming thickets.

The main stems are straight with spreading branches. The coloration is light brown with red-hairs. 

Leaves grow alternate and are broad oval with a heart-shaped or rounded base. They are approximately 3 inches – 6 inches long and 4 inches wide. The leaf edges are doubly serrate, hairy beneath, the petiole with stiff, glandular hairs. The leaves turn orange to red or purple in the fall.

Male and female flowers are separate, but both types grow on each plant. Male flowers, in small clusters – maybe 2 to 3 flowers per cluster, form as catkins that are 3 inches to 5 inches long in the fall. They will winter and open the next spring as yellow. Female flowers form and are tiny and inconspicuous with only bright red stigma and styles protruding from the gray-brown buds near the end of the twigs.

Clusters of 2 -6 of the acorn-like nuts about 1 inch long and a bit wider will grow after pollination. The nuts are enclosed in two toothed leafy husks

Location

Plants can grow in sun or partial shade in moist, well-drained soil.

Hazelnut map

They (several species) are widespread in North America, Maine west to Saskatchewan and North Dakota, south to eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Georgia, not found along the Gulf coast region or Southwest USA

When foraging, look in moist to dry woods and thickets, forest margins, roadsides, and fencerows and other disturbed areas. Also search streamside as long as the soil is not boggy.

Harvest

Hazelnut shrubs flower from March thru May before the plant leaf’s out. The nuts (fruits) form and ripen in the July – October time period. Late summer thru fall is the time to harvest. Be careful if you wait to long you will lose out to wildlife. Visa versa – if you get there first, make sure you leave a good amount for wildlife.

Edible

The nuts of hazelnuts are sweet and may be eaten raw, dried and roasted or ground into flour (gluten free).   

Interesting Notes

The nuts of American hazelnut, which have a higher nutritional value than acorns and beechnuts, also are eaten by squirrels, foxes, deer, northern bobwhite, ruffed grouse, turkey, woodpeckers, pheasants, and deer. 

Plants of American hazelnut may begin producing seed after the first year and produce good seed crops every 2-3 years. 

American hazelnut is not affected by any serious pests. 

Hazel flowers are wind-pollinated, so no bees or butterflies are needed for pollination.

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USDA plant guide

Burdock Plant wild edible

Burdock Plant Wild Edible

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Burdock General Comments

Burdock plant wild edible, a member of the aster family, is a native plant to Europe and Northern Asia. It was brought into North America by colonists and is now widespread throughout the United States. Like the dandelion, it is an invasive species that competes with native plants.

Burdock plant stems, leaves and root picture

Burdock is a biennial. In its first year it has no large central stem or flowers. It grows only as a basal of rosette leaves that stay close to the ground.

The burdock plant contains minerals and vitamins. This should be considered an important year-round forage plant since most parts can be eaten and different parts can harvested year-round.

Common Names

Common Burdock, Gobo, bur weed, clotburbeggar’s buttons

Description

burdock plant in mid-summer

Burdock is a tall, about 3’ – 7’ in height, weed with burrs that stick to clothing. The basal rosette of leaves stays close to the ground the first year and the beginning of the second. These basal rosettes can grow over 3 feet wide.

The plant has purple flowers on tips of a prickly ball of bracts (Velcro like) on long stalks that bloom between June and October. Flower heads are ½” – 1 ½” across.

The lower leaves are broad and lightly lobed and can grow almost 2’ long and about half as wide – as a comparison, they are somewhat rhubarb like. They are dark green and egg shaped.   

Location

Burdock, like many such plants, thrive along riverbanks, disturbed habitats, roadsides, edges of forest, vacant lots, and fields. Except for the southern areas, it grows throughout North America.



Edible

Leaf stems can be peeled and cooked by boiling for about 20 minutes.

Young leaves can be boiled or steamed and eaten like spinach.

Roots should be scrubbed to remove the skin. Chop off and discard the top few inches of root, which can be tough. The root should be boiled until tender.

Immature flower stalks may be eaten raw or boiled, their taste resembles that of artichoke.

Harvest

Immature flower stalks may be harvested in late spring before flowers appear.

The root can be rather long (up to 3’). The best parts are fragile. Dig carefully.  

Leaves and stems are best when picked young.

Grow Your Own

Burdock plant territory map of locations in North America

Sow seeds directly outdoors in spring as soon as the soil can be worked and when the danger of frost is over. Cover the seeds with light soil and lightly tamp down. Because it is a biennial, the first year growth only forms a cluster of large leaves. The large leaves grow from a long tap root that can grow over two feet down. In year 2 a branched stalk with smaller leaves will grow out of the plant and, in the late summer, purple-pink flowers will form. In autumn, these flowers are replaced by round brown burrs that persist into the winter.

Notes of Interest

Cultivated in China, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, New Zealand, the United States, Canada and in various countries in Europe as a vegetable.

The inspiration for Velcro came from the burdock bur. The inventor, a Swiss electrical engineer named Georges de Mestral, was walking along one day in the mountains and saw burs sticking on his wool socks and his dog’s fur.

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Partridgeberry

Partridgeberry Facts and Information

Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) also known as twinberry is a low growing perennial woodland plant of the eastern United States. It is in fact an evergreen non-climbing vine, no taller than 6 ½ inches with Partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) also known as twinberrycreeping stems 16 inches long. It blooms from late spring to mid-summer and sets berries that typically turn red when mature. Partridgeberry is highly ornamental and is used in gardens and landscaping. It is easy to find on online nursery shops. It grows typically by its spreading vines setting roots. The seeds will sprout, but only after a period of dormancy, called stratification.

The berries are a food source for many native animals – deer, birds, small mammals, etc. Native Americans made partridgeberry leaf tea as well as using the berries medicinally and for food.

Description

As noted above, Partridgeberry is a low trailing evergreen vining plant. Its flowers are fuzzy white, each having four petals, and as the picture indicates, grow in pairs. What is interesting is that the flower pairs generally create one red berry.

The stems are mostly light green to light brown and either glabrous or hairy; old stems become brown, smooth, and woody.

As the first picture indicates, pairs of opposite leaves occur along the stems and are ½ inch to 2 inches long and similarly across; they are oval in shape and smooth to slightly undulate along their margins. The upper leaf surface is shiny, and usually dark green. The glossy green leaves are small and broad with a conspicuous white midvein.

Habitat

Partridgeberry grows in both dry and moist wooded areas. The upper most picture was taken streamside in a mature deciduous Adirondack forest. Habitats include rocky woodlands, sandy savannas, slopes of wooded sand dunes, sandstone ledges along ravines, mossy boulders in wooded ravines as well as edges of swamps and bogs.

Range

This plant has a territory somewhat similar to mayapple and is found across a wide area of eastern North America. Partridgeberry is found from south Eastern Canada south to Florida and Texas all the way to Central America into to Guatemala.

Edible

Both leaves and berries are edible. Leaves are typically made into a tea.

The berries can be eaten raw, dried and cooked. They are basically bland tasting. The berries can be mixed with other forest berries. They are reported to be high in vitamin C, tannin, anthocyanins and antioxidants