Lucky for me this little dude seemed to be interested in the hay today.
A principle we are trying to follow is to grow 3x what we 'need' so that when local inhabitants enjoy what we planted we don't become bitter or disappointed. We are also learning what they favor and realizing that maybe I don't get to have that many annual flowers after all ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ Next year I'll sink less effort into them.
We are also not having luck with corn this year so we will try and start them indoors and hope the seedlings are less tempting than the kernels.
Vegan gardening means adapting!
That is excellently put and very much along the lines of what I was thinking. Like if I used the manure from animals I take care of I think I would feel conflicted but perhaps give some of that back to the natural land near me and make sure I have other plants sources of fertilizer. It seems like a big learning process that you can't really know the answers to unless you start trying situations like that, but still good to think about