{"id":58673,"date":"2021-07-20T06:46:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T11:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58673"},"modified":"2021-07-20T06:46:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T11:46:49","slug":"living-the-homesteading-dream-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58673","title":{"rendered":"Living the Homesteading Dream \u2013 Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ducks.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ducks.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ducks-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ducks-558x372.jpeg 558w, https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ducks-272x182.jpeg 272w\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><figcaption class=\"single-caption-text\">\u00a0Image by Jonathon Engles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header-outer\">\n<div class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permaculturenews.org\/2021\/07\/15\/living-the-homesteading-dream-part-7\/\">Living the Homesteading Dream \u2013 Part 7<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"entry-sub-title\"><strong>Weeds and Bugs and Raccoons, Oh My!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>I\u2019m in the middle of the garden, dusk just tipping into darkness, wearing nothing but my underpants when I realise that chasing a raccoon whilst clapping and shouting\u2014we\u2019d just finished reading that they don\u2019t like loud noises\u2014might attract attentive neighbours with something they\u2019d not likely seen yet.<\/p>\n<p>And, believe me, they\u2019ve been watching this little permaculture homestead come together for a couple of years now, so they have seen some stuff, if only via glimpsing across these boundary lines every so often out of perplexed curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>The raccoon lopes away, turning to look back, suggesting this half-naked man\u2019s\u2014that\u2019s me\u2014effort is but a dream. I should have just stayed in bed because it seems to know that I\u2019ll be back there soon enough, leaving the garden an unattended smorgasbord once again.<\/p>\n<p>It started with our wood mulch pathways. Every morning we\u2019d wake up to find them disheveled, the cardboard below them torn up in areas. Rocks from the garden borders would be tossed askew. Mulch in the garden beds would be tugged this way and that. Apparently, there were just too many earthworms for the resident raccoon to resist, so putting it all back together became a morning ritual for us.<\/p>\n<p>The stakes got higher, though. When the strawberry mounds were promising huge harvests\u2014we\u2019d already pulled a couple of bowlfuls without making a dent in the future bounty\u2014the raccoon started\u00a0<i>scrumping<\/i>\u00a0(Emma\u2019s English term for stealing the farmer\u2019s fruit in a sort of rascally way). The strawberries were all disappearing, with the raccoon having set the little green lids daintily on the ground after having snacked on them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Image by Jonathon Engles. Living the Homesteading Dream \u2013 Part 7 Weeds and Bugs and Raccoons, Oh My! I\u2019m in the middle of the garden, dusk just tipping into darkness, wearing nothing but my underpants when I realise that chasing a raccoon whilst clapping and shouting\u2014we\u2019d just finished reading that they don\u2019t like loud noises\u2014might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13196,11500,8748],"class_list":["post-58673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-homesteading","tag-jonathon-engels","tag-permaculture-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58674,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58673\/revisions\/58674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}