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I am just starting up and am in a more rural area so my thieves and vandals are going to be the four legged kind. Plan on putting up electric mesh fence on the perimeter with a boarder of flowers in front of it to sorta hide it a bit. Don't need to worry about people/kids since this is not in a residential area, tucked away off the beaten path.
Theft is completely dependent on the neighborhood, social capital, and crops planted. I've definitely experienced significant theft on an urban farm where I was growing. I will second Curtis' comment on social capital. The organization I worked with did not do a good job of building relationships with neighbors to create a community policing situation. One season we lost 50 feet of collards! Relationships and marketing go a long way.
Hope all is well Curtis. I am also starting out here in Dallas Texas, I'm sitting on 1/3 of an acre and starting out with sheet mulch on a small scale basically a 4 by 8 and would like to know if you repeatedly have to kills your weeds or how is that you do it.'
Thanks Curtis, another good video. I'm away to start urban farming in Scotland everything is set in place and we are sowing, using a mixture of your outdoor techniques, poly tunnels and a shipping container with grow lights for year round fresh organic produce to sell locally. just wanted to say a huge thank you, for all the videos you have put up. the information about how things can be done in a better, more sustainable way have been hugely beneficial, I have both your and Jean martins books and love them. my plan is to use them as my bible and continue to push new ideas to constantly improve what we do and how we do it.
Hey Curtis, I couldn't find anywhere else to ask my question. It doesn't have to do with this video so I apologize if I'm in the wrong place! I'm wondering if you might go into more depth about the differences and nuisances between growing head lettuce and baby leaf lettuce. Specifically about why you might use specific varieties for baby leaf lettuce vs head lettuces as well as any tips you think are useful. Thanks so much, I have your book and I'm putting a lot of your methods in place for this next season! I really appreciate all you're putting out for everyone to learn!
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Well you do live in Canada. Probably the kindest place in the world… At least compared to some of the places I've lived.
I've had issues with damages, not so much vandalism but more of a lack of care by others. The farm I worked at before I started my own was the worst. My boss, the farm business owner, and her dad, the farm owner and also a farmer, would always get into arguments about land use. One day we were planning on gleaning a 5 acre field of winter squash and gourds, but when we got there everything was mowed to the ground and all of the product was shredded. Here my boss's father had told her the day he wanted to plant wheat, so she had to get the squash out by then. We didn't have the squash out and he felt he needed to teach us a lesson. On my parents farm, where I started my business land use was always an issue. I used a field close to their house and if I didn't keep the outer edge of the field mowed my dad and brother would mow whatever they felt necessary. Usually resulting in crop damage, grass clippings in the salad green beds, etc. My brother did some four wheeling over a freshly prepared field that was to be planted into garlic, thankfully I had not planted it yet. They put the farm up for sale this year and told me I couldn't use the land next year so we moved 7 hours away and have our financing set to buy our own farm. Just have to wait for the right one! Not all vandals are people you don't know, is the moral of this story
Back in the '90s, I had a small 4×4 foot garden by the front door of my apartment. I noticed when the tomatoes got ripe they would "disappear". I solved that problem by coating some with Oil of Ipecac.ย ย ๐
We have lots of theft and vandalism at our urban farm in St. Louis. Last fall, someone came and picked all of my sun-ripened hot peppers, and damaged a couple dozen plants in the process. It killed the plants. Putting up a fence this year, praise r'hllor.
I find that apache foot traps work well for vandals..you could also Google the punji stick…
In the State of California there is a law that allows a person to come into a Farmers Feild and eat what He wants in the field but he can not take any crops off the Farmers Property
this law goes back to the Great Depression of the 1930s like in the novel "The Grapes of Wrath "
now a days any theft of over $50.00 worth of crops can be a felony with State Prison time that could be just a case size box of avacados
but you can go the field to eat one or two
Gota watch them elderly ๐ And they go round miss judging us cuddly tattooed gardeners . Haha ๐
we have just had an issue with Vandalism in out Pea Patch community garden sad that it happens and it seems to be something that we were told to expect so now we have to fence it in. theft i can understand, but wanton distraction??
But I would rather grow food than just sit around doing nothing
–Rick
Sharing 2 heads cabbage with elderly friend, resulted in total crop theft. Payback of 3 cases of her best kraut was better than turning her in to authorities. She now grows her own cabbage.
Sharing 2 heads cabbage with elderly friend, resulted in total crop theft. Payback of 3 cases of her best kraut was better than turning her in to authorities. She now grows her own cabbage.
it really shows that taking the time to talk to each interested person who comes by your plots helps create rapport but also prevents vandalism and theft.
Great question and advice! I was wondering this myself ๐
this is the difference between you being in Canada and many of your viewers being in the USA. When I first started watching this farmer, the first thing I thought of is that you would need to hire a night security guard at all of your plots.
I have it happen in my urban garden and it makes me sad. The throw my tomatoes, Killed my kale plant because the didn't know how to cut it and I do have it fenced. The world is sad because I do share but they want it all
Shoot 1st ask questions later good compost