Unfortunately grazers are worse than plants, and predators are worse than grazers. Every time you go up a rung on the food chain it gets worse and worse. It’s yet another reason that the deer population is as outrageously out of control as it is.

Fruit from plants is kinda the only safe thing if you’re growing it in unsafe soil.

It’s tragic what a century of industry has done to the ecology in this region.

Oh you don’t want to eat those deer anyway. The bio accumulation of an herbivore in this town has got to be INTENSE.

Fruit trees are still good, leafy greens are what bioaccumulate heavy metals, very rarely do plants put heavy metals in the fruit. Apples, pears, paw paw, would all do well, as well as berries, cherries grapes etc.

Check for an access panel on the other side of the wall from where the water comes out, could be a shutoff there and you can just keep the water off there instead of your whole house. If there is, it’s not so bad to just turn that dial every time you need to shower, I’ve lived like that for weeks.