{"id":26462,"date":"2026-01-10T16:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T15:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosufficienza.dartmoon.dev\/how-we-protect-vegetable-gardens-orchards-and-vineyards-from-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:01:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T08:01:28","slug":"how-we-protect-vegetable-gardens-orchards-and-vineyards-from-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autosufficienza.it\/en\/how-we-protect-vegetable-gardens-orchards-and-vineyards-from-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"How we protect vegetable gardens, orchards and vineyards from wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the questions we receive most often when we publish photos of our vegetable gardens, orchards and vineyards concerns crop protection:
how do we protect them from wild boars, fallow deer, red deer, roe deer and other wild animals?<\/strong><\/p>\n

La Fattoria dell’Autosufficienza is located on the borders of the Casentino Forests National Park, an area where approximately 84% of the surface is covered by forests. This means that wildlife is abundant<\/strong> and that animals, especially at the forest edges, move regularly in search of food.<\/p>\n

In this context, any unprotected crop is inevitably preyed upon, even when it is just a few metres from roads or buildings.<\/p>\n

For this reason, over the years we have tested various protection systems, learning in the field what really works and what instead has too many limitations.<\/p>\n

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The protection systems that we have tested<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Mobile electric fences (2010)<\/h2>\n

The first method tested, in 2010, was the use of mobile electric fences, with lightweight posts and tapes connected to an energiser.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This system was soon abandoned as a defence against wild animals. It works well as temporary containment (we still use it today to take donkeys and chickens to pasture), but has too many limitations against large wild animals.<\/p>\n

The main problems are:<\/strong><\/p>\n