In trying to grow anything at the farm, deer and other critters prove to be one of the biggest problems we have. In years past, the deer have been known to devastate whole fields of sweet corn, destroy nearly three fourths of our bean crop and make it darn hard to pick the few beans they are so kind in leaving to us and take bites out of our pumpkins and watermelons making them useless. The raccoons have done their fair share of damage as well, especially to the early corn. It has proven to be very frustrating and discouraging to us.

However, last year, we decided to put up some electric fencing around certain crops at the farm; the watermelon, the strawberries and some of the corn (if I remember right). Much to our surprise, it worked very well. So this year we decide to fence in most of the farm, except for the main orchard. The guys have been out digging post holes and cutting down trees to use as posts. This week with the exceptionally beautiful weather, much progress has been made in putting up the posts for the fence. The above pictures show some of the work that has been done.

From what I understand the entire east and west boundaries of the farm have had the posts set in the ground. Now we need to work on the north and south edges. Some parts of the west side of the fence you can see when you drive by.