[Market-farming] Fly Prevention

Liz liz at horseshoegardens.com
Sun May 3 11:26:58 EDT 2009


This is a very popular method for horse stables too.  Can't really vouch for
it working as we NEVER EVER arrived on the job to shoe without a clowd of
flies to greet us (except in January).  But then it was not often we worked
in the barn either but the owners swore by them.  

Liz
Horseshoe Gardens   

-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Pat Meadows
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 10:57 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Fly Prevention

On Fri, 1 May 2009 12:28:14 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>There's an eco-friendly restaurant nearby that swears by hanging a zip-type
baggie half full of water over every entrance into the building.  He said it
has cut his fly problems by 90%.
>

This is *very* interesting.  We saw this on television - a Rick Steves PBS
program.  He does European travel programs (and writes guidebooks). 

He was in a city in Spain (I can't remember which city) walking through a
quaint old neighborhood with a local friend.  

They saw hanging plastic bags of water in a courtyard; the local told him it
was to keep away flies and that many people there do this.  He asked the
lady who lived in that house if it worked:  she said it did work for her.

I cannot think of any reason WHY it should work, but if several people say
that it works, I think it would certainly be worth a try.

Cheers,
Pat
-- North-Central Pennsylvania, USA
www.meadows.pair.com/articleindex.html

The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's
greed.  

Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi.


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