{"id":300,"date":"2011-06-13T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/?p=300"},"modified":"2011-06-13T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:48:57","slug":"when-elk-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.PeaceCrops.net\/CSA\/when-elk-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"When elk attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"

That sounds pretty dramatic, but I guess it isn’t all that bad. Remember how I put up a special deer fence<\/a> around the orchard? Well, I went out to check on the bees yesterday, and found a giant hole torn in it, top to bottom, about ten feet wide. Ugh. I was looking at my trees to see if there was any damage, when Jos\u00e9 came by in his pickup.<\/p>\n

“What happened here?” I asked him. The tear was so big, I assumed that the dumptruck bringing manure for his berries had snagged it somehow.<\/p>\n

“Deer, hombre!” he said. ” I told you that fence was no good.”<\/p>\n

Hmm. Annoying. I guess this is the point of experimenting, though. Now I know that the fence alone, without the 1.0 joule electrical wire to go with it, isn’t going to keep hoofed raiders out of my dainty fruits. I guess I have to buckle down and get a fence charger. The good news, though, is that none of my trees got munched. I guess the guilty deer\/elk were just wrestling around in their early spring fervor, and have plenty of other edibles all over the place to keep their bellies full.<\/p>\n\n\n