Build a garden and a rabbit will come. (Likely more than one, but that's ok, I hope.)
Pyotr is Peter in Russian. That’s what I named the cute and wild baby rabbit that showed up in our back yard earlier this year. At first, we wondered if he was an orphan. He always appeared alone and wasn’t properly trained by any of his elders to fear us. The good news, until he figures things out, is that we're getting great photos of him bopping around our patio and yard.
As spring unfolds, we notice Pyotr venturing out further towards our new vegetable garden. This may cause a little concern for us gardeners. So, I laid out some lettuce for him near the Artemesia shrub he lives in. Half of the lettuce was gone by the afternoon. Which gave me the harebrained idea that I need to build him his own vegetable garden nearer the safety of his shrub. If I do this, we can all continue living harmoniously rather than becoming territorial about our vegetables.
Setting aside my refuge development for a moment, we recently saw another baby rabbit in our front yard. This one is smaller than Pyotr. We call him Pedro just to keep the rabbits and their geo-locations straight. I'm excited about the possibility of raising a rabbit family. But for that to happen, one of these cute things needs to be a girl. (I vote for Pedro.)
A vegetable garden grows more than vegetables. If it works, it grows communities. Stay tuned for how our supply will meet (or be protected from) the demand.
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