Dear Allen and Virginia . I didn't mean that you shouldn't seek a solution for the problem, and just let them damage your crops. Awhile back we went on a trip and found our winter corn crop totally destroyed by racoons. We now have a big yellow lab that feels duty bound to keep critters at bay. We get deer out in the pasture with the horses but none in the gardens yet. We have a neighbor with 300 free range laying hens , that bought and had trained a dog to guard their flock from fox . Perhaps the right dog would do the trick.We all need to eat "real food (csa members included) :) sharon. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Balliett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 7:14 AM Subject: Re: Field Broadcaster
> I agree with Virginia. > > When you're growing for a CSA, you've made a commitment to families > with children to provide them with as much food as your skill and the > season allow. > Deer damage much more than what they eat. One of the worst things > they will do is trample remay that is excluding flea beetles (oops, > there I go again!!) from cole crops. Their hooves tear the remay, > damage that may not be discovered until harvest time. (Which remind > me: as well as zuchinni that seemed to bear for months, I seem to > remember remay that didn't tear as easily as any remay I buy nowadays > does.) > > We get lots of stuff just out and out trampled also. > > The deer only bother our stuff, however, when it's more desireable > than what they can fine in the woods. This season, apparently, there > wasnt a lot of edamame out in the woods. > > >Dear Sharon, > > > >You are most generous and I imagine unruffled even when the corn > >plants you have sweated over are all broken, your trees are > >continually browsed or the fruits that you've waited for are strewn > >all over the place before they even mature. While they may eat > >some, the damage they cause is to an extent that some people have > >given up growing a garden altogether. Too bad, because gardening is > >immensely therapeutic and healing. For animals, there are wild > >plants in abundance which may be much more healing for them. > > > >Virginia > > >
