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Old-Fashioned Pest Management: A Skill You'd Better Learn Fast

• Organic Prepper - Jayne Rising

Old-fashioned pest management is yet another topic that is going to prove vital knowledge in the very near future. With supply chain disruptions causing shortages in everything from fertilizer to semiconductors, it's an easy bet that we'll be seeing shortages of various pest management products in the near future as well.

Even those considered organic and a very basic part of our arsenal, such as copper fungicide, might very well be more difficult to come by in the future.

So what do we do? How did our forebears deal with their pests? Are there old-fashioned pest management techniques that can easily be implemented by the prepper?

Let's take a look.

One for the farmer, one for the crow…

Sacrificial gardens date back more than 2500 years. The first farmers planted as much as they could and hoped the pests, (rabbits, insects, deer, etc.) would leave them some. Fences, floating row covers, and the coveted greenhouse came much, much later but are definitely useful additions to our pest control arsenal. 


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