After the pigs and nene, we thought we were done with big critters. What a relief. We had two sides of the garden fenced in, and about 100 feet of another side installed. This seemed to baffle or intimidate the pigs, because we no longer saw more damage. But then I arrived one morning to find a lot more crops eaten and deep holes throughout a big section of the garden where the veggies had been eaten. The bottoms of those holes revealed the split hoof tracks of cattle. Gosh darn, another big garden predador!
You talk about being down at heart! Egads, what else…..now it’s cows. Other than informing the cattle owner that their cows had escaped their pasture and were eating the garden, all we could do was work on getting more of the fencing up in place. This was so frustrating…but little did I know that more was to come.
The next morning I arrived to see equine hoof tracks!!! Oh no! More problems. Scanning the garden hopefully, I was saddened to see yet more veggies destroyed. Feeling low and helpless, all I could do was work on locating more fence supplies. Happily Aikane Coffee donated 25 t-posts, enough the run most of another roll of fence. And donations were still dribbling in so that we could purchase more fencing. (To let you in on a secret, two donors stepped forward with enough for us to buy the rest of the fencing. I nearly cried with joy, appreciation, and relief especially after watching our community’s garden get destroyed over and over again.)
We did learn that the horse and cows had escaped via a break in their fencing which then got repaired. The animals were all rounded up and returned to their proper side of the fence.
I tell you, the month of December had been hard on the garden. But wait. There’s more to come!
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