Market Farming

[marc AT aculink.net]

This is EXACTLY the reason we do not kill wildlife on or
around our farm and our neighbors do not either (for the
most part).

The coyotes, racoons, foxes and raptors kill for food and
keep the critters that go for gardens down to a VERY
manageable level so we do not have to go to unreasonable
efforts to protect the veggies.

We did not discover this but were lectured by the folks
around here about it and requested to not screw up the
balance of nature. It has worked well so far.

Seems a not very hungry predator won't put out much effort
to get at our poultry either.

We started out here with barn cats and kittens at around 22
cats total. As long as the cats stayed around the house they
survived. Whenever we saw a cat hunting down by the driveway
entrance (bout a quarter mile away) we knew it was going to
be on the coyote menu that night. Sure enough the cat would
be gone next morning.

Our neighbors are VERY conservative folks so it ain't no
tree hugger nonsense but multi hundred year old wisdom
learned the hard way.

Marc

Marie Kamphefner wrote:

> We too were being eaten up by rabbits.  At first I used the rifle on them.
> 
> The next year, I had dried habanero peppers and I cooked a handful of them