You won’t believe who our new guests on the farm are!
TURKEYS!
Thanks to our friends at Chispas Farms, four turkeys now call Sol Harvest Farm home! Eli Burg and the folks at Chispas loaned us these guys as a creative (and efficient!) solution to our grasshopper problem.
As we all know, the rains have been torrential this year, which has given rise to beautiful crops – and a rash of grasshoppers. Sol Harvest Farm is not the only farm to feel the hit – grasshoppers have been voraciously munching on our crops all over the state of New Mexico.
Farmer Ric has been working hard this season to combat the grasshoppers using natural deterrents like cedar oil, hot pepper spray and diatomaceous earth, but we needed a more aggressive tactic to deal with this year’s grasshopper population.
That’s where the turkeys come in – a single turkey can eat up to a thousand grasshoppers in a single day!!!! And these wonderful turkeys are already helping! Cherie says they must have munched two hundred grasshoppers just in their first 20 minutes on the farm!
Thank you Chispas, and thank you turkeys! You’re helping make Sol Harvest Farm amazing!
