Natural Pest Management
We grow our food without herbicides or pesticides and are USDA Environmentally friendly. So we practice natural pest control and create an environment to encourage natural predators of the plant eating bugs
Our yard and field are full of dandelions and other native flowers.
We have lots of praying mantises, they are such cool bugs and eat lots of the bad ones
This Gal hitched a ride all during hive inspections and caught herself a snack
This is a praying mantis egg case on the house foundation. Babies will hatch when the weather is right.
We've heard fox calls in our woods and finally saw this beauty. They eat lots of rodents
This is a ladybug larva hanging out on the pea trellis. They eat aphids and bad bugs also.
A newborn baby praying mantis
lots of baby mantis hatching
Releasing 3000 native ladybugs in the hoop house (not the invasive asian lady beetle)
We also have a healthy garter snake, frog and toad population to help keep pests controlled. Although this garter from a few years ago bit off more than she could handle trying to eat the toad.