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Check out this magazine issue right now! [GreenPrints]( October 10, 2023   [ GET the OCTOBER 2023 issue of GreenPrints Magazine with ‘MY HOMEMADE DEER REPELLENT’ story now!]( Your GreenPrints Magazine October 2023 issue is ready for you to access and read right now. When you read this printable issue, you get joy, laughter, and inspiration. Start reading—and listening to—stories in this issue now. BONUS: GreenPrints founder Pat Stone has authored a story for this issue—check out Pat’s story … and the entire issue … right now! Dear Gardener, Great news! Your October 2023 issue of GreenPrints Magazine is ready for you to access, print, and read. Plus, the new-and-improved GreenPrints Magazine includes two stories in the current issue that are also read by GreenPrints founder Pat Stone and his wife, Becky. What a treat! In addition to reading these two stories for yourself, you can listen to the audio recordings while working in the garden, while driving in your car, or on-the-go anywhere [Sunflower Kit]( Please check out this story in the current issue, entitled “My Homemade Deer Repellent”—you’re certain to get a few laughs when you read about how one widowed woman persisted about getting help from a friend to concoct her own deer repellent for her garden. Plus, this story has been recorded for you by GreenPrints founder Pat Stone and his wife, Becky. Read and listen!  [My Homemade Deer Repellent (with audio)]( And my wife’s homemade Kombucha. By Dan Halterman  Read by Pat and Becky Stone [IMAGE](   The family recently discovered kombucha, the “immortal health elixir” of the ancient Chinese (and a pleasing financial elixir for commercial producers today). Kombucha is a fermented tea, rife with probiotic growing things (“raw, unadulterated & crafted by nature,” according to one label) that are supposed to be good for you. On our kitchen counter are two, cloth-covered, gallon glass jars of clear amber liquid and a whitish, gelatinous floating mass. The porous fabric on top allows the “SCOBY” (Symbiotic Colony Of Bacteria and Yeast) adequate oxygen to happily digest and ferment the sugar mixed with tea at the beginning of the process. The living SCOBY turns tea (three bags black, three green) into kombucha. My wife and daughter drink the slightly vinegary and self-carbonated, minutely alcoholic, trendy beverage as fast as it can be produced. I see a similarity to composting in the countertop fermentation vessels. Both rely on a happy, balanced mass of tiny living things to convert carbohydrates into more desirable stuff. We’ll get back to the kombucha. Lela, a widowed friend of many years and still gardening in her 80s—Hooray! hope for those of us not all that far behind—struggles against the rampant depredations of the whitetail deer from the park behind her home. Lela became convinced years ago that the most effective deer repellent is rags soaked in male (human, not deer) urine, hung liberally around the garden fence. [Sunflower Kit]( There’s not a lot of scientific evidence for this. Biologists at Stephen F. Austin University who studied the effect of human urine on whitetail deer concluded that human urine neither attracts nor repels deer. “Number One” from people (one of the adult male researchers?) had the same effect as commercial buck urine, ovulating doe urine, and new-car smell: all failed to repel—or attract—deer of all ages and sexes. [Read More...](  What an interesting and funny story! You must read the rest of it. And the [GreenPrints Magazine October 2023 issue]( has other stories for you—more content to touch your soul, lift your spirits, and make you laugh! Including this featured story—"My Homemade Deer Repellent"—you get all 8 stories in this [GreenPrints Magazine October 2023 issue]( with these gems: - INCLUDES AUDIO: “The War of the Rose: Battling for beauty can be tough.”—read one woman’s detailed account of her annual physical battle with an entangled rose plant every Fall, to prune it and ensure a glorious display the next year. Plus—this story has also been recorded for you by GreenPrints founder Pat Stone and his wife, Becky. Read and listen! - INCLUDES AUDIO: “My Homemade Deer Repellent: And my wife’s homemade Kombucha.”—read about a man who helped a widowed friend create homemade deer repellent with human male urine … his own! … because his friend lost her original urine source, her husband’s, when he died! If it’s not too gross for you to read some of the details, you’ll get more than a few chuckles from the correspondence back and forth between the two about when, where, and how the urine could be collected! Plus—this story has also been recorded for you by GreenPrints founder Pat Stone and his wife, Becky. Read and listen! - “Down for the Count: It’s OK Garden. Rest. You’ve earned it.”—read this gem, authored by GreenPrints founder Pat Stone, about his own garden’s Fall transformation and the garden’s fruitless battle with Nature’s seasonal onslaught. This story is special! Pat usually is busy editing all the other submitted stories, but he took time to share this story of his own with you! - “My Personal Groundhog Day: Which is worse, having a woodchuck in your garden—or trying to get it out?”—read about this tenacious woman’s efforts to keep a groundhog out of her garden. It’s engaging. It’s funny. It’s entertaining. It’s frustrating. And it’s real! - “If You Build It … they will garden.”—read one woman’s account of her uphill battle to create a community garden in a public-housing project. Faced with impossible odds to succeed, her commitment to the task and her bonding with one resident proves her noble cause worthy. Just heartwarming! - “Feral Marigolds: The last flowers of my mother’s garden.”—read about one man’s mother and her love of marigolds. And how he returned to a family home they once had to discover no structure any more, but the emergence of tiny yellow bursts of sunshine. A touching and inspirational story! - “Two Small, Small: A phrase that can apply to both peppers—and time.”—read about a man and his wife who take in their son’s new bride, a West African woman who fled political persecution in Cameroon, while their son is on the road as a truck driver. 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