permaculture

["Felicity Wright" <flickwright@ozemail.com.au>]

Larry, thanks for that email. We don't have a gopher problem in Australia
but reading your email reminds me of why it's worth being on this email list
... really enjoyed the belly laughs.

best wishes
flick wright

PS: Is the gopher 'skull mobile' patented or would you be prepared to share
the design plans?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Santoyo & Associates" <santoyo@earthflow.com>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Gopher control


> John,
>
> We live on the central coast of California. Gophers are our number
> one issue in our market garden.
>
> There are several remedies and ideas that claim to work, but when
> it's said and done nothing short of "exclusionary access" (cages,
> hardware cloth, chicken wire) seems to work... I have consulted with
> a voodoo priestess, a feng shui geomancer and an unemployed shaman, I
> have even skinned a gopher (photo available upon request) and spread
> its ash when Venus was in Scorpio (ala bio dynamics), I have a gopher
> skull mobile that I move around the garden and have put their little
> heads on little sticks. I also understand that there is some ancient
> Mayan text, that still needs to be translated, that deals with
> gophers in the garden...
>> Larry Santoyo
> earthflow.com
>