Boundaries and Invaders
It has been a long time since there was a blog article, so to try and increase update frequency a little, delegation has taken place. This article has been written by the head of The Fencing & Boundaries Committee , Ron. All tree planting guides tell you to protect your trees from wildlife. Be it deer or rabbits or squirrels- though nobody mentions farm animals. One option is to exterminate the “pest” but we were not prepared to do that to wild creatures when this is partly a wildlife project. Fully fencing off a site is very expensive , tree guards a little cheaper. Given we don’t have anything to worry about that might “escape” the field, it was decided that we would take our chances and leave the boundary as it was and use tree guards where it was sensible. The deer were only infrequent visitors (I have never actually seen one yet) and the bunnies would mostly be thwarted by guards. Nobody mentioned farm animals though. In general this strategy h...