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Last summer I took my family on a walk through the woodlands that surround the hamlet of Ebernoe, in Sussex. My children clambered on fallen trees, my partner and I hunted for mushrooms, and all the while we were being hunted by creatures more ancient than the last dinosaurs – and so hungry they would have fed on us for days.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anecdotally, after getting chickens and with a family of opossums in the woods out back, I haven't seen a tick on my boots or my dogs in many months.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I should get me some chickens…and opossums….and woods.