Deer Feasting on Fair Haven Community Garden
Volunteers ask for fencing to protect garden.
The deer in Fair Haven are well-fed. That's because they're feasting from a well-tended community garden. Garden keepers tried to fence the white-tailed critters out of depleting their healthy produce with a 7-foot fence. That didn't work, though. It was jumped with the same ease as a kid lifting a leg over a picket fence for one giant stag that was found muching contentedly square in the middle of it over the summer. "With all our modern gardens, this area is a veritable smorgasbord for them," Mayor Ben Lucarelli said. "It's happening at the community garden and all over town. It's not just vegetables, either. Tulips are like crack to them. Where I live, about a week after the tulips come up, they're right out of the ground again because …
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natale c. siclare
4:18 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013
Take a deep breath and re-read the article!...the fencing is being paid by the plot fees! more ›