Our guest this week is Kerry Beane, a speaker, coach and educator with over 20 years experience in agriculture and horticulture systems. Kerry specialized in integrated pest management practices and helps urban farmers and gardeners grow healthy crops sustainably.
She joins the podcast to chat (and console us) about gardening with gophers. Listen in for ideas and a shift in perspective.
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Resources
Visit Kerry’s website here
Check out her YouTube channel
Kerry shared some great resources for further research:
- BIRC – the Bio-Integral Resource Center – for integrated pest management and particularly on Vertibrates (you can order reprints of publications on the subject)
- If you want to put up barn owl boxes on your property, find advice here and find options and supplies here
- Want to make your backyard a habitat for wildlife? Check out these resources to get started.
- Rincon Vitova – a source for beneficial insects and biological solutions to pest problems.
The industry standard for catching gophers – Macabbe Gopher Trap
And try this trap we’ve used successfully at our community garden – Gopher Hawk
Gopher cages – use gopher wire to protect your plants before you put them in the ground.
Plants gophers apparently don’t want to eat: catnip, borage, kale, and chamomile
Bonus: check out Kerry’s blog post about seed balls
Develop a new relationship gardening with gophers. Take Kerry Beane’s advice: protect your crops, build habitat and working toward coexistence when needed.
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I just discovered your podcast today.
I’m hooked. I’ve worked for an elementary school garden for over 6years, and had versions of my own community garden boxes and small farm ventures in Central California.
So glad I found this today while making a lazy style Johnson su bioreactor compost pile… Malibu is one of my favorite waves and now I’ll be checking out their products….the gooher episode was so cool!!! As I am close to Woodside and gophers are huge here in Santa Cruz!
Thanks for the pod!!!
I’d be excited to share our story if you’re interested….A School farm is coming to fruition after years of pursuit.
Aloha!
-Farmer Jake
So glad you found our podcast. It’s on haitus, but you’ll have more than a decade of episodes to catch up on. Enjoy the listen and good luck with the school garden (and gophers!)