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Guardian dogs help protect herd animals By DEAN FOSDICK Associated Press Livestock guardian dogs (sometimes called LGDs) can be lifesavers, not only for herd animals and poultry but also for farmers and ranchers trying to build a profitable business. Laura Faley owns Hidden Meadow Ranch near Mount Vernon, Washington, about 60 miles north of Seattle. She raises chickens, turkeys, ducks and sheep with the help of dogs bred specifically to cope with the coyotes, bears, raptors and other predators roaming her property. The guardian dogs also help control other dogs — family pets allowed to run loose through neighborhoods, posing a threat to goats and sheep. Before Faley acquired her guardian dogs, she was losing more than 40 lambs per year to eagles, and large numbers of ducks and chickens to great horned owls. “Now it’s zero,” Faley said. “I’ve had my dogs for five and a half years. In that time, I haven’t lost any livestock.” Dogs have been genetically refined over the years to protect livestock from predators. There are some 20 to 30 breeds of livestock guardian dogs around the
world. The breeds display a wide range of temperaments. “Some are better suited as remote pasture guardians where a daily routine is very constant, while some are good in situations where there is a high degree of variety,” the Livestock Guardian Dogs Association says. Just as you wouldn’t try to use an Irish setter to herd sheep or a border collie to hunt birds, only livestock guardian dog breeds are big enough, powerful enough, determined enough and calm enough to be effective at deterring predators, Faley said. The best-known breeds in the United States are great Pyrenees, Anatolian shepherds, Akbash and Maremma sheepdogs. “They are generally aloof toward strangers, and their size alone is rather intimidating,” the Association says. Picks of the litter can be pricy, said Faley, who has two Anatolian shepherds and two Kangals. “I paid $1,200 each for the (two) purebred registered Kangal puppies,” she said. Match the animals to your specific needs. “Buy your dog only where you can see both parSee Dogs p. 2D
This 2008 photo shows a Great Pyrenees pup being held by Art Hegeman of rural New Market, Va. The pup eventually grew to 120 pounds and was used as a livestock guardian dog to protect ornamental fowl from predators. Livestock guardian dogs can be a rancher's best friend but should not be treated as pets so they can bond with their herds and flocks. (Dean Fosdick via AP)
This undated photo provided by Green City Growers shows Fenway Farms, a large rooftop farm at Fenway Park maintained by Green City Growers in Boston. The farm produces more than 6,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables each season to be used in on-site restaurants and concessions. (Maureen White/Garden City Growers via AP)
Farmers for hire turn backyards into decorative vegetable patches By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press Jeanne Nolan grew up in an affluent suburb of Chicago. When it came time to apply for colleges, she shocked her family by opting to skip college and become an organic farmer. Then she brought her farming skills back to the suburbs and city, installing and tending vegetable gardens at clients’ homes. The Organic Gardener Ltd., the farmer-for-hire service she and her husband, Verd, started in the Chicago area in 2005, is one of many such services that have cropped up across the country. Some of these farmers have farming backgrounds, while others are landscapers who expanded their expertise, or entrepreneurs from a range of professional backgrounds who just love gardening and the outdoors. “If you want serious exercise, you turn to a professional trainer to help you do it right. This is like hiring a gardening coach. Some people say, ‘Come over every other week for a year’ so they can learn and do it themselves. And I also have a hundred clients whose gardens I’ve been tending for years who are not even trying to do it on their own, but simply love having it done,” says Jeanne Nolan, author of “From the Ground Up: A Food Grower’s Education in Life, Love, and the Movement That’s Changing a Nation” (Spiegel and Grau, 2013). Urban farming services cater to both homes and businesses that want homegrown produce but not the work involved in growing
This undated photo provided by Green City Growers shows Director of Horticulture Laura Feddersen teaching garden fundamentals to participants at the employee wellness garden at Hood Park in Charlestown, Mass. Green City Growers runs more than a dozen of these programs throughout the Northeast. (Maureen White/Garden City Growers via AP) it. Clients include apartment complexes, grocery stories, schools, shopping malls, even ballparks. “It turns out that having home-grown produce is something a lot of people really want,” says Jessie Banhazl, founder and CEO of Green City Growers, in the Boston area. The company planted and tends vegetable gardens atop Fenway Field, where produce is served to fans at games and a portion is donated to charity. Many of her clients are trying to get more engaged in the growing process, she says: “There’s something about seeing how food grows, at home, school or even at Fenway, and hopefully this influences dietary choices and has a positive environmental impact.” Dan Allen, CEO of Farmscape, with locations in Los
Angeles and the San Francisco area, says farmers for hire have a more intimate relationship with clients than landscapers do. “There’s something more personal about growing food,” he says. Hiring a farmer for your backyard isn’t necessarily cheap, though (prices vary by region). The farmers admit that if saving money is your goal, it’s probably cheaper to just shop organic at the grocery store. But they say the experience of growing your own produce, the learning opportunity for kids — and the bragging rights — make it worthwhile. Another option: having a farm service visit every couple of weeks to teach growing techniques and offer tips. “It’s surprising how much
food you can grow in a very small space. As urban farmers, we grow things vertically and on roofs. We know how to plant crops densely. Even in just a 4by-4 (-foot) square planter, you can grow a lot of food,” Nolan says. Her company grows “pretty much anything you can imagine,” she says. “Our most charismatic are tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. And our season runs from March through midDecember.” To provide enough produce for a family of four, Green City Growers recommends three 3-by-8-foot raised beds. “Whether it’s a median strip or a full backyard, or even containers on a balcony, a vegetable garden can happen almost anywhere,” Banhazl says.
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ents working,” Faley said. “Genes are everything. Bad training can be fixed. Bad genes cannot.” The most effective livestock guardian dogs are those that bond with livestock and poultry rather than with people. “There’s a strong distinction between pets and guardian dogs,” said John Tomecek, a Texas A&M Agrilife Extension wildlife specialist. “It’s good to be able to approach them in the pasture and handle them, but it’s not good to have them hang-
This graphic represents a Tuesday survey of regional lending institutions. Figures are based on rates at Range Bank, Northern Michigan Bank, mBank, Marquette Community Federal Credit Union and TruNorth Credit Union.
ing around the house.” The larger the area and the more livestock you have, the more guardian dogs you’ll need. “A lot also depends upon the terrain,” Tomecek said. “If it’s open and you can scan it pretty well, then you won’t need as many (dogs).” A commonly cited rule is one dog per every 400 to 500 acres, but that’s not universal. “Visit with others to see what works in their areas,” Tomecek said. Dogs aren’t the only guardian animals effective for predator control. Llamas and donkeys also are popular for protecting vulnerable goats and sheep.
Dolley Madison: the White House’s first power hostess By KATHERINE ROTH Associated Press Sometimes, thoughtful decor, elegant tableware and gracious entertaining can come together into something truly powerful. An exhibit in New York argues that Dolley Madison’s prodigious domestic, social and political talents helped define and unite a fledgling nation. Madison was the first First Lady to reside in the White House for a full term. She decorated three of its rooms, and boldly invited the public to dinner not once, but every Wednesday. “A lot of Americans at that point did not even know how to use a fork, and some coachmen who entered the White House had never before sipped from porcelain cups,” says Valerie Paley, who curated “Saving Washington,” on view at the New-York Historical Society through July 30. Paley is director of the museum’s new Center for Women’s History, which aims to reveal the often overlooked stories of women who shaped American history. Dolley Madison “understood the power of symbols, and showed what American refinement could look like,” Paley says. Through decora-
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tion and tableware, the First Lady showed that Americans could perform socially as well as politically on the national and international stage. She hosted a broad range of people at her dinners, from European foreign ministers to American congressmen and merchants. The exhibit features a tiny, urn-shaped nutmeg grater, a marrow scoop, mustard and egg spoons, and an array of similarly specialized utensils of the era, all of which would have been novel items to many of her guests. It also features the First Lady’s own silver snuff box, from which she generously offered snuff to guests, Paley says. Also on view are tea and coffee sets that belonged to the Madisons. Instead of donning a tiara, as was customary, the socially savvy Madison wore a turban decorated with a towering feather plume, so that she could be easily located in a crowded room. “She was an important example of what a woman could be in the United States at the time but, more importantly, she embodied the idea of American strength, virtue and honor,” says Paley, who calls Madison “one of the most influential women in America
during the nation’s formative years, and a powerful force during a time when women were excluded from affairs of state.” Her public White House dinners became known as the “Wednesday evening squeeze,” since so many people attended. “It was an important part of her whole project of civility, and humanizing the office of the president. After a while, she didn’t even need the ads because everyone knew that that’s what was going on in Washington on Wednesdays,” Paley said. At the “squeezes,” people of various backgrounds could circulate with diplomats, politicians and even the president himself. “It’s important to remember that Washington was pretty desolate at the time,” Paley says. “It was literally a swamp and figuratively a desert, and Mrs. Madison helped create important informal networks and a sense of connection.” The trappings of gentility required an enormous amount of physical work, museum experts noted: Crisp table linens had to be washed, bleached, ironed and mended; silver had to be cleaned and polished; delicate porcelain had to be dusted.
This 2017 photo provided by The New York Historical Society shows a installation view of the exhibit “Saving Washington,” at the New York Historical Society in New York. (AP photo)
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