You can be as proud as Apprentice Sam, shown here with his first gopher kill, if you take Love Apple Farm's upcoming gopher trapping class. We're bringing in gopher hunter extraordinaire, Thomas Wittman, to teach this much-needed workshop.
Thomas started his gopher career as an organic farmer in 1982. He trapped gophers daily for over twenty years and founded a non-toxic, wildlife damage control company, Gophers Limited. He has been a consultant and lecturer on rodent problems since 1991.
Thomas is coming to Love Apple Farm to give an intensive 3-hour workshop on eliminating not only gophers from your garden, but moles, voles, and ground squirrels as well. His business has had great success training farmers and gardeners on how to control these destructive pests without the use of poisons.
The seminar will consist of an early morning trap setting session, a Power Point lecture on basic problem-animal biology focusing on behaviors and mannerisms that lead to effective trapping or control. The lecture will also include attracting predators, using sprays and drenches, different fencing and barrier options, various organically-approved pyrotechnic processes and several trapping methods. After the lecture, the group returns to the trapping site set up earlier and traps are checked, reset and new areas are set to demonstrate proper trapping techniques.
ALL CLASSES ARE HELD RAIN OR SHINE!
ALL CLASSES REQUIRE ADVANCE REGISTRATION, EVEN FOR GIFT CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.
Click on an available date to register:
January 7, 2012 (Saturday) 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. SOLD OUT!
March 3, 2012 (Saturday) 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. $49
June 10, 2012 (Sunday) 9:00 - 1:00 p.m. $49
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