The Zeiger Family Homestead Blog

The other day as we hiked home from town, we discovered moose tracks on the trail—lots of them. From the looks of things, we had a crowd of moose crisscrossing the trail most of its length. We’d had a full day in town, and were all tired, but we quickened our pace home, for fear the moose had found our garden.

Strips of used drier sheets will hopefully keep the moose away from our cherries (Photo: Mark Zeiger).

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Michelle’s recent encounter with a short tailed weasel on the beach has recalled other encounters on and near our homestead.

Early birds reading yesterday’s post may have understood Michelle’s visitor to be a least weasel. Our assumption proved to be mistaken when we consulted our nature guides. (more…)