In Hamilton:
Volunteers race to beat veggie thieves to crop
Volunteers are racing to harvest a community garden ahead of veggie thieves.
Two weeks ago, neighbours began complaining about strangers stealing produce from a Mary Street vegetable patch maintained by Hamilton’s Victory Gardens.
Bill Wilcox, who chairs the nonprofit group, said he reported an especially large theft to Hamilton police after a group of people in a van were spotted loading up in late August.
Now, Wilcox is urging volunteers to beat the thieves at their own game.
“We’re devoting more time, proportionally, to this site,” said Wilcox, who is organizing harvests every Monday evening. “We want to stay one step ahead of (the thieves).”
Volunteers have harvested more than 2,000 kilograms of fruit and vegetables from five small gardens around the city over the past two weeks. The fruits of their labours go to area food banks and hot meal programs.
The site near Mary and Barton streets is Victory’s largest with 81 raised garden beds. Neighbours have kept a wary eye on the garden, Wilcox said, reporting a suspicious licence plate to police and a few additional small-scale thefts.
An update on the investigation wasn’t available from Hamilton police Tuesday afternoon.
“Those efforts are making a difference and we want to thanks those people,” Wilcox said. “The thefts are continuing, but not with the same intensity we saw before.”
For information about the gardens or harvest schedules, visit hamiltonvictorygardens.org.
👿 one of the comments posted: Are they taking just cucumbers? If so... I'll buy them the next round.
other then being off the main drag, my garden is surrounded by trees and bushes, my neighbours across the pond would see my corn if the had binoculars, but from the road it looks like i have a lot of wild flowers, over grown grass then trees/bushes. on the other side of those trees and bushes is 700sq feet of garden in two beds. the raised beds i'm putting in will stand out more, but they are surround on three sides by water, the only way to get them is to walk down the path that is directly in front of my house, a camera, and 5 dogs. . .
garden security is a must. . .
these people may be thugs, but they are likely hungry people with families. it's sad on many levels, but they could take part in the garden and earn their keep too.
more of this is to come people.
adsum. . . aut viam inveniam aut faciam
last year we had people that were actually caught stealing from our garden. Tried telling us that they only wanted enough for supper despite a full trunk.
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"Much to learn you still have...”~YODA
last year we had people that were actually caught stealing from our garden. Tried telling us that they only wanted enough for supper despite a full trunk.
Hmmmm....very big family perhaps 😆
Jokes aside though...it is very upsetting when that sort of thing happens 🙁
My dad's garden was once destroyed by some neighbourhood kids that knew our family!
We went off to church and came home to find smashed pumpkin all through the yard and other veggies ripped out...such a waste, they didn't even want to eat them just destroy them.
Grrrrr was he mad on the inside, but being the pacifist he was, he said very little and started the garden all over again....I gave them hell at school the next week as I am not such a pacifist 🙄
The question is: why are people doing this because they are hungry or panicked or selling it for money....................
Cares: sorry about the garden
Deleau: how big where the moths?
our garden is pretty accessible, one of our long term prep plans is a better fencing system that has privacy component...currently main protection is one of our chickens who is suprisingly tough and one of our Muscovy ducks that I have to smack on the beak regularly...and I give him food! If someone stole his (perceived) food they would deal with the rath of "nipper" as we have named him.
Joking aside though, I hate news stories like this, they make me just think the worst of people and make me sad that this is level of society before a crisis. Good point brought up that they might be hungry, I just think they could try a different approach that stealing, maybe ask and work in exchange? Really though, I tend to go to "people can really suck" thoughts...
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"Much to learn you still have...”~YODA
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I don't know where you would get them in Canada but in Australia they can be purchased from 'Homeopathy Plus'
I have used the Helix Toasta for snails and slugs and would expect the other remedies to work just as well.
They last for up to four months so are really efficient and cheap to use and best you get to eat your veggies instead of the grubs 🙂
They had a wingspan of about an inch and a half, and were pure white...I have googled images of cabbage moths, and they vary quite a lot...but these were consistently all white...apparently they lay eggs on the leaves (wish i'd have known this before i juiced a bunch of them 😮 ) and those eggs turn into nasty little HUNGRY worms...it is almost comical though...the stalks are all there, just stripped completely bare...
and this was my first attempt at gardening... 😥
At least you know what they are now. I have this tiny little ones that don's seem to be doing any damage that are as small as a fruit fly.
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