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Ingredients
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- Grub
- Beetles
- Grasshoppers
- Crickets
- Spiders
- Ants
- Some fruit
- Habitat Helps
- Nesting Boxes along fence lines or in open fields
- Nesting Materials (Gather a pile and set it out for them to pick through)
- Mealworm Feeders
- Planting fruiting shrubs & berries
- Open Pasture & garden space for feeding
Preparation
Step 1
And I’m not talking chickens. While chickens have their place in the Integrated Homestead Pest Management System & Food Supply, backyard birds are much lower maintenance and a less expensive part of the plan.
Leave dead trees in place or use wooden fence posts for nesting sites
Me too Laura! Getting a nice head of cabbage next month is really short sighted! We need gardeners who are thinking sustainably & generationally to really make a difference!
It will be nice to enjoy all the birds while you’re gardening too, won’t it? One of our gardens is along a tree line and I just love listening to them while weeding… makes the time pass so pleasantly. Then the other garden is near our pastures and there is a meadowlark that sits on the electrical wires that run nearby singing its heart out. While he’s not beneficial to the garden, I do enjoy it tremendously