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Here, in south eastern PA, pa pa have tons and tons of wild raspberry bushes, blackberry and wine berry bushes. And tons of them pesticide free in our local state park. They start ripening between May and July depending on the weather. I’ve taken my kids out the last 3 years and end up with...

My husband and I happened upon an entire shelf in our basement filled with gallon jugs of wine, hot sauce, vinegar, etc. They have to be from the previous owners, though my husband lived in this house for almost 10 years before I happened upon them. The wine was gross... we were too afraid to...

They’re just eaten and gone. I’m assuming voles, squirrels, chipmunks, anything else hiding around here

All sounds very good. Any advice on growing strawberries? We’ve had 4 years without getting to eat any berries. They all get eaten by who knows what. We’ve covered in netting so I’m assuming not wild birds...

UPDATE!!!! VOLE CAUGHT IN TRAP!!!!! 1 down, a few hundred to go. How many can there possibly be...🤔

Little bastards...

I now see the need more than ever for cats and dogs on our suburban homestead”. They really do work! Unfortunately my son has asthma and my husband and I are allergic and so it is not meant to be...

Yay 😁 and ugh! What are you planting this spring in your beds?

Ooooo... what part of Ireland? My family was in Dublin and the Isle of Man last year.

Hello all, I e already asked a few questions but this prompt keeps popping up so I figured I’d get it over with now. Family of 6, with 8 8-week old hens (hopefully) living in South Eastern Pennsylvania. Much more suburban than I’d like honestly. Too noisy and busy for me anymore. We have a...

Someone else suggested big league chew... how does that work exactly?

Wow! That’s a lot of info. Thanks a lot! Here’s me thinking vegetable gardening would be an easy feat! Been nothing like that since we started 5 years ago. If anything I think it has invited more wild animals into our yard including deer and a woodchuck living under our shed!! 🙄

Chicken wire or so I need to get my arms all scraped up using hardwirecloth? And by underneath do you mean dug under the earth? Like 8-12 inches below what is growing? Any advice on mesh on top that will be secure but also open easilywhen I need to weed or harvest?

Hello everyone, BYC member, newbie here. We put up a hoop house this fall to attempt to grow some cold weather veggies through the winter. Everything was going fine until we noticed holes dug up all over the place, raised cedar beds chewed through, and almost everything eaten... of course...