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  • From: donahuer@ols.net (Randy )
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Location
  • Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:47:36 -0400 (EDT)


I am a resident of Winston-Salem.
There might be a way to keep sheep from girdling fruit trees, and
to use them instead of cattle. One might be able to use a dilution of the
insect repellent capsaican, the purified heat of hot peppers. I have heard
that ruminants don't like hot foods(although they enjoy herbs-- fenugreek
and chicory). One could apply this in a maximum dilution to the trunks and
possibly foliage of fruit trees once initially and once for each
introduction of new animals/ newborns to the project. This initial contact
should condition them, after each new paddock contains yet more eye-watering
bark, to ignore anything tree-like and go with the safe stuff on the ground.
A transgression could hopefully be corrected with another application.

-Donahuer@ols.net




  • Location, Randy , 10/11/2000

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