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RE: The 'okay' invasive asparagus
The growing season has barely started where I live, but we have had a lot of requests already for our library's foraging and wild edibles books this past week. There was even a request for info on wild asparagus. It is rather easier to find if you grow your own though, as you have. It doesn't wander far, even if it does like to push its boundaries.
For deer and other pesky species, your fencing needs to be stout. Try woven wire field fencing around the perimeter, and then barbed or electric wire above that extending to a height of at least 8 feet. If the gate isn't left open, it'll keep the deer out. Beetles, gophers, and cutworms are another matter.
Yeah, we intend to do woven fencing and rose bushes as our long term deer both attractant and deterant(sp). The rose buds will be food for them, but like gnr states: every rose has it's thorn. So we are hoping the combo of fence and thorns will be enough to keep them out. Of course when they think they need to, or with the right encouragement they'll still come in.
Are you further north, or that far south that your season is not started yet?
A stone's throw from Canada. Also, in a mountainous microclimate.
My mother in law, and her boyfriend (both from Sweden) want to live there so very badly! I have never been. Being that reindeer are so common, and a part of culture in Scandinavia, she would like to do a caribou hunt some time. I haven't looked into the details at all, but I suspect it would make greater sense to do it in our own country.
Alaska would be better for caribou. There are various benefits to living in the inland northwest or mountain west through.
We wondered though what the rules are for foreigners hunting on your land, and also bringing the meat home with us... We hunt for the food as our primary excuse - If the animals I killed didn't feed me, I wouldn't be hunting.
Legality only matters if you can't avoid the government goons. Morality and legality rarely coincide.
Here here!