Daddy's gadgets
We just got back from a quick trip down to
South Carolina to visit Daddy and explore all of his gadgets!
Here he is showing off his solar-powered deer repellent light.
(He built the stand himself.) Despite my gift-resistance, I
thanked him profusely when he offered to give me a set for Christmas to
try in my own garden. According to Daddy, as long as you move the
lights every few days, the blinking lights scare away deer, who think
the lights are predator eyes. I'm willing to try anything to keep
our deer away!
Then there's the automatic
chicken feeder he built for his Golden Comets and Rhode Island
Reds. This one I'm less likely to emulate (though I'm including
it since I thought others might be interested.) The automatic
feeder is obviously best in a stationary coop and I figure it would be
too heavy for our tractors. Daddy told me that his pullets
got in the habit of picking all of the corn out of their mash and
leaving the rest of it behind! Darn teenagers and their junkfood.
Finally, I'll leave you
with an eight second video of Daddy and his dog --- low budget
entertainment at its best. More soon on a couple of other
highlights of the trip.
| We finally solved the deer in
the garden problem, and the solution was so elegant we gave it a new
website. Check out our deer
deterrent website for free plans! |
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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