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  • From: Willie McKemie <mf AT austinfarm.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Deer Fencing
  • Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:02:49 -0500

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 04:00:38PM -0400, Robert Farr - The Chile Man wrote:

You'll find some photos of my double electric deer fence here:
http://austinfarm.org/homegrown/images/images3/index.html
also, here:
http://austinfarm.org/homegrown/images/images5/index.html

The fence was converted to double in 2003 and has worked well for me
since then. Cost to convert a barbed wire fence was a bit less than
$1/foot, as I recall. That includes labor; I had a contractor put it
up.

There is significance to the photos of the pea crop. Without the fence
there would be NO pea crop. In 2002, I had a very good looking pea
crop and did not pick a single pea; deer ate then all. Since 2003,
I've had annual pea crops with little to no deer depredation.

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