Season crops for wildlife year round.

What's going on! I'd like to share some some seasonal stuff for wildlife in the short term while helping native habitat mature and get established in the local landscape. I've grown corn, sunflowers and sorghum to aid birds, but looking for more this year to draw in more birds such as crows, jays, blackbirds and other critters. I'm looking into buckwheat, millet, and others to feed visiting birds each time of the year. Anybody of a sunflower hedge before? I'm trying to create one with other types of crops that have seed heads. Shoot me back if you all need me. See ya!

I'd like to mention that Amaranth tends to be a hit with critters as well as what you have proposed. Sorghum comes to mind as well.

At one time we had at least three food plots for the wildlife here.

Cowpeas aka black-eyed peas and purple hull peas and turnips are what I remember.

I also feel that the crop that deer love the most is alfalfa.

To get the best recommendation it might be good to specify what kind of wildlife.

Not sure what wildlife you’re trying to bring in but I used this mix recently. If it’s sprouted it’s just barely so I can’t say with proof that it works but a great local seed company has it premixed for our area. I mixed some clumping grasses in as well. Some bluestem, side oat grama, Klein, and Wilma love grass. I can speak for those grasses as I planted it all around my property. Birds love it as long as you let it go to seed.

Edit: I forgot to add that after planting those grasses I saw the first quail I have seen in well over 25 years. I mowed it down this year early so I could overseed clovers so no quail this year unfortunately.

The area I’m doing those grass plus this forb mix is maybe 3/4acre or so. I also do a fall deer mix on a small section there. I’d say they mostly ignore it other than alfalfa and clovers.  

This is another mix I added into the grass mix by the banks of my ponds. Last year was incredible. Millions of butterflies no telling how many different species 50-100 I’d guess. I have never seen anything like it in my area. These are starting to sprout now but no flowers yet.

I'm talking about birds, raccoons, possums and native rodents to my gardens year after year.