Deer and bear were damaging the fruit trees every year!! There was just no way to “share” the orchard with them and have any reasonable success at orchard health. A 7′ high fence now encircles the orchard, vineyard, & chicken coop. It now successfully excludes deer from the orchard. We are adding a 3 wire electric fence to the 7′ deer fence. It is nearly complete. I am hoping it will successfully exclude bear from the orchard. It is a race against time to get it up and working. The bears start coming around when the figs begin to turn blue. I have a few weeks left.
