Summer house...for geese & bees

The geese are moving into their summer house!!!
After months of building fences, burying them into the ground, adding electric fencing and building the cedar structure, we are ready for the big day!
Honey and Sweet Pea saw their eggs strategically placed in a new 24x24 nesting box, and went in to investigate. Sweet pea carefully moved eggs and repostioned them while honey went for the new grain feeder.

​The Summer House as I call it, has a multitude of uses.
1. It stores the bee frames & supplies.
2. It has a inside nesting area big enough for future goslings.
3. And it was built in the vineyard, so geese can mow the areas around the vines and be protected for overnight mini vacations-for me.

In addition I added a 'top line' solar electric fence for keeping out critters- like raccoons. Those wily rascals are being lured into our area by a neighbor feeding them. Unfortunately, they  ate most of my grapes last year, sneaking in at night.
To further the security measure, I buried the fencing 1-2 ft into the ground for protection from coyotes or dogs.
As most of my new projects are experimental, I use the internet as a source of information and sometimes it fails me! For instance, I had read geese are great for vineyards: grazing the grass down and keeping geese shaded on hot days. However those sites failed to tell you that geese, in their curiosity and by picking at everything....well...they immedietly started pulling bark off the mature vine trunks! ACH!!! 
Those 15 yr old vines produce my wine and if too much bark is removed they can die.
So I had to quickly add protection. 

See the child gate??? to prevent honey from biting me as breeding ganders can, I am protected when adding food and water. I also put the feed into small buckets and hung along wall to right of feeder for easy filling.

You can see I zip tied plastic netting to the trunk which is not so pretty. I then had to fence off the area. New solutions are in the works: maybe a noxious homemade peppermint spray to make bark taste nasty?

Just to share what I have learned about mini farming: I am a huge advocate for building your mini farm infrastructure FIRST before adding animals. And to plan everything out carefully (especially land layout for coops and fences) and do your research.
​You want it functional but not an eyesore or a smelly 'close to the house' mess.

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