Pests

Cat's Claw creeper stripped from a tree trunk and ready for herbicide.

Cats Claw Control

This summer I have been controlling Cat’s Claw Creeper (Dolichandra unguis-cati) near the top of Wellers Hill which is inside Weller Road Park…

Two hens are taking a dust bath on the ground outside their coop. Here they grind dust into their feathers to deter parasites.

Feral Cat Attack

Last night a feral cat got into our chicken coop and killed our top hen, Theodora (named after the Byzantine Empress Theodora). She’s the precocious one on the right in the sunbathing picture …