Description
Jake and Riley Debow of New England Naturals gives us a tour of their home and shop while sharing how their part-time gig takes them from trapline to fur shop.
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Jake is a wildlife biologist. Riley is a natural product chemist. Their place sits in the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire. On opening day of trapping season, Jake checks a beaver set on a farm where a colony has dammed a creek under a bridge and flooded acres of cornfield. Back home, Riley shows the gardens built from peeled aspen logs and watered by a ram pump off the brook with no electricity, where they try to grow, hunt, forage, or trap 60% of their food. In the fur shed, a converted chicken coop with a wood stove, Jake keeps a tail wall for every beaver over 50 pounds, and explains how to age a deer by tooth wear. The beetle hut shows how to clean a skull with dermestid beetles and why a beaver's orange, iron-rich teeth sharpen themselves. The tour runs through the pole barn, a 16-foot beaver boat rigged for body-grip traps, and a wildlife opening planted with clover. It ends at the fur shop in an old liquor store, where they sew beaver mittens, beaver belly hand warmers, and fur cat toys on a fur sewing machine they paid for by selling fiddleheads on the side of the road.
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Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to New England Naturals
2:25 Opening Day on the Beaver Line
4:07 Gardens Watered by a Ram Pump
6:33 Inside the Fur Shed
8:19 Fleshing Beavers and the Tail Wall
9:32 Aging Deer by Their Teeth
11:44 How to Clean Skulls With Dermestid Beetles
15:01 The Pole Barn and the Beaver Boat
19:14 The Swimming Hole and Wildlife Opening
21:26 A Fur Shop in an Old Liquor Store
23:05 A Sewing Machine Paid for in Fiddleheads
24:57 Beaver Mittens, Hand Warmers, and Cat Toys
26:47 Why They Trap