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2013 edible gardening
Doug Freyburger wrote:
Farm1 wrote: It'd be nice to live where there were no venomous snakes but I live in an area where we have highly venomous elapids. That is just a fact of life. Keep the eyes peeled and wear long pants and boots and that is about the best I can do if I want to keep enjoying my surrounds. Move far enough north of the snow line and there are no vemonous snakes and few enough of the other sorts. You pick your situation and you pay your price. I assume that by 'north or south' you mean on the snowy side of the snow line in your hemisphere. This has a number of problems. The most obvious is that the choice of what to grow is much reduced the colder your climate is. This group is about edible gardening! The particular problem in Fran's case is there is very little (soon to be none) permanent snow in the Australian alps and very few people live there, much of it is national park. Being a pasturalist in those conditions (as I understand it she makes here living from cattle) is more difficult even if there was land available due to the shorter growing season. So this isn't a practical option. The interesting thing about the profusion of dangerous snakes in Oz is that there are so few fatalities, this is partly because most people who live in rural areas know how to behave with snakes and also the availability of treatment. A third reason is that despite this image of the suntanned race of the vast outback Australians are a very urban group, very few actually live where there are many snakes. Contrast this with Sri Lanka which is the snakebite capital of the world. There they have a lot of people and a lot of snakes and they live in each other's pockets. D |
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