permaculture

["Bart Anderson" <bart@cwo.com>]

Toby wrote:
If there's anyone out there who has had good, long-term luck with any of the
gentler methods, particularly in the West where the mule deer are even more
aggressive than the eastern ones, I would love to hear of it.

I'm not a hunter and we don't have deer in the middle of Silicon Valley, but
I wonder... is it legit to shoot the deer who come onto your property? I
know that mule deer tend to over-populate in California.  Probably the food
value of the deer would be greater than the vegetables one is growning.

Our problem is snails and (in some areas) gophers.  I think Brock Dolman
suggested eating gophers, and I know our snails are edible -- in fact
gourmet items.

Eating pests would seem to be a direct way to solve the problem.