Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Going at it


Our work days start around 7:00.  Yesterday we rolled out and fixated wiring for an electric fence.  Boaz is a farmer who grows grapes bio-dynamically (even more ‘natural’ than organic growing, in his own words) for wine.  Quite exclusive wines in my experience: a bottle will cost you around $40.  Aside from Michelin rated restaurants, the main market consists of people who come by the farm to buy the wine.
Boaz planted some new vines recently.  The deer in the area discovered that; they eat them at night before they get to grow strong.  So he placed an electric fence around the patch.  The fench is 3 feet high at most, but Boaz says the deer are so used to crawling through it that it does not occur to them they can easily jump over it.  So they are in for a ‘shocking’ surprise!  It will not kill or even hurt them, but it will scare them off.
And today we continued on the fence and did some weeding of the new vines.  It is a pity, because what are called ‘weeds’ are actually pretty flowers.  But the flowers don’t earn anything, so they have to go.