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  • From: "Barbara Fischer" <cen12205@centurytel.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] snakes
  • Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:19:07 -0500

To each his own. I have been living in the "wilderness" for 20 years now and
am at peace with my solutions.

Barbara
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harvey Ussery" <huboxwood@earthlink.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] snakes


> > I don't like snakes ....kill everyone I see, but I do not have rats
either. In my opinion, snakes are worse than rats.!
> >
> > Barbara
>
> > . . . I have only seen one or two black snakes which I
> > dispatached quickly. They get in the chicken house and will eat baby
chicks
> > and eggs too.
> >
> > Barbara
>
> The further along I go in this experiment in homesteading (aka "my
> life"), the more convinced I am that any strategy to deal with homestead
> problems based on killing *anything* is misguided. More and more, I see
> the key to success as the encouragement of maximum *diversity* of all
> possible forms of life where I live, not defining certain segments as
> The Enemy and driving myself crazy trying to drive them to extinction.
>
> It seems plain silly to kill snakes such as black snakes, which overall
> have more benefit to contribute than threat. And yes, I have lost chicks
> (ducklings, actually) to black snakes. However, I took the occasion as a
> challenge to figure out management changes that would resolve the
> problem, not as a provocation to war.
>
> ~Harvey
>
> --
> Harvey in northern Va
> www.themodernhomestead.us
>
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> used." ~Wendell Berry
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