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My name is Elias Yoda. I am Amish. I keep eleven hives of honeybees on this farm, my wife tends a half-acre of flowers and herbs the pollinators depend on, and I have not been bitten by a mosquito at my own kitchen table in nine years.
No bug zapper. No spray truck. No chemical company on retainer. And every female mosquito within a hundred yards of my farmhouse is, right now, flying toward a five-gallon bucket behind my woodshed to lay eggs that will be dead within twenty-four hours.
In this video, I am going to walk you through exactly what I do, in the order I do it, for less than the cost of one professional spray treatment. You will learn the bucket-and-bits trick that handles the eggs at the source, the essential oil spray that takes care of the adults, the source reduction walk my grandfather did every Saturday morning, and the smudge can my grandmother lit at dusk on the porch. Every bit of it is safe for honeybees, butterflies, dogs, chickens, songbirds, and children. None of it requires electricity. None of it requires a contract.
I am also going to tell you the part that might make you uneasy — which is that the lawn care companies in your town have known about the safe
No bug zapper. No spray truck. No chemical company on retainer. And every female mosquito within a hundred yards of my farmhouse is, right now, flying toward a five-gallon bucket behind my woodshed to lay eggs that will be dead within twenty-four hours.
In this video, I am going to walk you through exactly what I do, in the order I do it, for less than the cost of one professional spray treatment. You will learn the bucket-and-bits trick that handles the eggs at the source, the essential oil spray that takes care of the adults, the source reduction walk my grandfather did every Saturday morning, and the smudge can my grandmother lit at dusk on the porch. Every bit of it is safe for honeybees, butterflies, dogs, chickens, songbirds, and children. None of it requires electricity. None of it requires a contract.
I am also going to tell you the part that might make you uneasy — which is that the lawn care companies in your town have known about the safe
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00:00There is a five-gallon bucket sitting behind my woodshed.
00:03It is half full of rainwater, a handful of grass quippings,
00:07and one heaping spoonful of a powder you can buy at any hardware store for $17.
00:14Every female mosquito within a hundred yards of my farmhouse
00:18is flying toward that bucket right now to lay her eggs.
00:22And every single egg she lays is going to die within 24 hours.
00:27It will not harm my honeybees.
00:30It will not harm the butterflies in my wife's flower garden.
00:34It will not harm my dog, my chickens, the songbirds that come to the feeder,
00:39or the children running barefoot through the yard at dusk.
00:43It only kills one thing.
00:46My name is Elias Yoda. I am Amish.
00:50I keep 11 hives of honeybees on this farm.
00:53My wife tends a half acre of flowers and herbs that the pollinators depend on.
00:58And I have not been bitten by a mosquito at my own kitchen table in nine years.
01:04We have no electric bug zapper.
01:07We have no spray truck driving down the road.
01:10We have no chemical company on retainer.
01:13I am going to show you exactly what I do,
01:17in the order I do it, with what it costs and where to put it.
01:21Then I am going to tell you the part that should make you uneasy,
01:25which is that the pest control companies in your town have known about this for 40 years,
01:32and most of them still spray your yard with something that kills the honeybees
01:37right along with the mosquitoes,
01:40because the honeybee safe option does not refill itself every month at $200 a visit.
01:47Stay with me.
01:49By the end of this, you will know how to clear the mosquitoes out of your own property
01:54this weekend for less than the cost of one professional spray treatment,
01:59and your bees will thank you for it.
02:03Let me start with what most folks get wrong,
02:06because if you do not understand this, none of the rest will work.
02:11Mosquitoes do not come from the air.
02:14They do not come from the woods.
02:17They do not blow in on the wind from your neighbor's pond.
02:21Every mosquito biting you in your own backyard was born in your own backyard,
02:28in water, in standing water, and not very much of it.
02:34A bottle cap of water held in the crease of an old tarp is enough.
02:39A clogged gutter holding half a cup of rainwater for four days is enough.
02:45The little dish under your potted geranium is enough.
02:49A female mosquito will lay between one and three hundred eggs at a time,
02:55and she can do it in less water than you can hold in your cupped hand.
02:59That is the whole game right there.
03:04If you let standing water sit on your property for more than four days,
03:09you are running a mosquito hatchery.
03:12If you eliminate it, or, and this is the trick,
03:16if you poison it so the eggs cannot hatch,
03:19you have solved the problem at the source.
03:22This is what we have always done.
03:25My grandfather walked the property every Saturday morning in summer with an empty coffee can,
03:32and he tipped out every saucer, every tarp pocket, every old bucket,
03:38every wheelbarrow that had collected water during the week.
03:42He called it walking the line.
03:45And in the places he could not drain,
03:48the low spots in the pasture,
03:50the cattle trough,
03:51the rain barrel by the back door,
03:53he had another trick,
03:55which I am going to show you in about three minutes.
03:59The English want to kill the mosquito
04:01after it has hatched and flown into their face.
04:05We kill it in the water before it ever has wings.
04:09Our way takes about an hour a month.
04:12Their way takes a monthly bill
04:15and a foggy yard that smells like a chemistry classroom.
04:20Here is what I want you to do this weekend.
04:22You will need three things.
04:26A five-gallon bucket,
04:27dark colored,
04:29orange,
04:29red,
04:30brown,
04:31or black,
04:32not white.
04:33I will explain why in a minute.
04:36A few handfuls of grass clippings or dead leaves,
04:40and one container of something called
04:42mosquito bits.
04:44They will be in the lawn and garden section of any hardware store,
04:49sometimes near the pond supplies.
04:52$17,
04:53give or take.
04:55You start by setting your bucket somewhere out of the way,
04:58behind a shed,
05:00under a hedge,
05:02behind your barn,
05:03not next to where you eat dinner.
05:05You want the mosquitoes drawn away from you,
05:07not toward you.
05:09You fill the bucket about halfway with water.
05:12Rainwater is best,
05:13but tap water will do.
05:15Then you toss in a handful of grass clippings,
05:18a few dead leaves,
05:19maybe a twig or two.
05:21Nothing fancy,
05:22just enough to make the water look a little dirty,
05:25a little swampy.
05:26Why dark colored?
05:28Because a female mosquito,
05:30when she is hunting for a place to lay her eggs,
05:32is looking for water that looks like the dark, shaded, still pools
05:37where her species evolved over millions of years.
05:41A bright white bucket in full sun does not look like home to her.
05:46A dark bucket in the shade does.
05:48The color matters.
05:50Trust me on this.
05:52Why the grass clippings?
05:54Because as those clippings break down,
05:56they release the same compounds that decaying vegetation releases in a natural pond,
06:02the scent that tells a female mosquito this is a good place to leave her young.
06:08You are not making a swamp.
06:10You are making a counterfeit swamp.
06:13The most attractive piece of real estate on your property,
06:16as far as a mosquito is concerned.
06:19Now here is the part that turns the counterfeit swamp into a graveyard.
06:23You take one heaping spoonful of the mosquito bits
06:27and you sprinkle it across the top of the water.
06:30That is all.
06:31You do not stir.
06:33You do not measure.
06:34One spoonful floating on the surface.
06:38What you have just put in there is something called BTI.
06:42The full name is Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis,
06:47which is a mouthful and I do not bother to say it.
06:50It is a bacterium, not a chemical,
06:53not a poison in the way folks usually use the word.
06:56A living thing that exists naturally in soil all over the world.
07:00It was first found growing in a desert pond in 1977
07:04and what makes it remarkable is that it kills exactly one kind of creature.
07:10When a mosquito larva,
07:12that is the little wiggling worm thing that hatches from the egg
07:16and lives in the water for about a week before it grows wings,
07:19when that larva eats a particle of BTI,
07:23it gets a hole in its stomach.
07:25Within 24 hours, it is dead.
07:28It works on mosquito larvae, black fly larvae, and fungus gnat larvae.
07:34It does not work on anything else.
07:37Not on bees, not on butterflies,
07:39not on dragonflies, which eat mosquitoes themselves.
07:43Not on fish, not on frogs, not on songbirds,
07:48not on your dog if she sticks her face in the bucket.
07:51I am not exaggerating.
07:53The reason it is so specific is that the gut of a mosquito larva
07:57is alkaline in a particular way
08:00and the toxin in BTI only activates in that exact chemistry.
08:05A honeybee's gut chemistry is completely different.
08:09So is yours.
08:10So is everything else's.
08:12You can drink a glass of bucket water
08:14and you will not feel a thing.
08:17Please do not drink the bucket water.
08:19That is not the point I am making,
08:21but the science is solid.
08:23Germany has been using BTI
08:26in their public mosquito control program since 1981.
08:30The state of Pennsylvania uses it.
08:33Maryland uses it.
08:34They drop it from airplanes over marshland.
08:37It is the safest mosquito control product on the planet
08:41and it has been for 40 years.
08:44So why is your lawn care company not using it?
08:47Most of them are not and the answer is simple.
08:51BTI is cheap.
08:53It is sold over the counter
08:55and once you know about it, you do not need them.
08:58A $17 container will last one family the entire summer.
09:03A monthly mosquito spray contract
09:06costs between $60 and $90 per visit.
09:10You do the math on which one the lawn company
09:13would rather sell you.
09:14One spoonful of mosquito bits
09:17floating on a half-full bucket of swampy water
09:20will kill every mosquito egg laid in that bucket
09:23for the next two to four weeks.
09:26After that, the BTI breaks down
09:28and you sprinkle in another spoonful.
09:31That is the whole maintenance schedule.
09:34Now here is how you make the system
09:36actually work for your whole property
09:38because one bucket behind one shed
09:41is not going to clear out a half-acre lot.
09:44You need at least three buckets,
09:46one on each side of your house,
09:48placed away from where you sit,
09:50where you eat,
09:51where the children play.
09:53Always away.
09:55You are not decorating.
09:56You are drawing the enemy away from your camp.
10:00I put one behind the woodshed on the north side,
10:03one behind the bee yard on the east,
10:05one behind my wife's herb garden on the west,
10:09tucked behind the rosemary
10:10so my wife does not see it
10:12and complain about it ruining the view.
10:14She has views about how the yard ought to look
10:17and I have learned not to argue.
10:20If you have a flower bed where you cannot hide a bucket,
10:23take the lid that came with the bucket,
10:25screw four short wooden dowels into it
10:28to make little legs
10:30and rest the lid on top of the bucket
10:32like a little hat.
10:33That way, the rain cannot fill the bucket
10:36and dilute the BTI,
10:38but the mosquitoes can still fly in underneath
10:41to lay their eggs.
10:42Three dollars in dowels,
10:44five minutes with a drill if you have one,
10:47or with a screw and a screwdriver if you do not.
10:50I will not pretend I use power tools.
10:52I do not have electricity on this farm
10:55and the hand drill my father gave me does just fine.
10:59For the places you cannot put a bucket,
11:02a ditch along the road,
11:03a low spot in the pasture that holds water
11:06after a heavy rain,
11:07an old stock tank by the barn,
11:10they make the same thing in a different form.
11:13They look like little brown doughnuts.
11:15The boxes call them mosquito dunks.
11:18You just toss one in.
11:20Each one covers about 100 square feet of standing water
11:23and lasts about 30 days.
11:26I keep a box of them in the mudroom
11:28and I toss one in the rain barrel by the back porch
11:31the first day of every month from May through September.
11:35And here is something most folks miss,
11:38your gutters.
11:39If your gutters have any debris in them,
11:41leaves, pine needles,
11:43the kind of buildup most houses get
11:46within a year of cleaning,
11:47they are holding water.
11:49Not much, just enough.
11:51Sprinkle a spoonful of mosquito bits
11:53straight into the gutter every few weeks
11:56during mosquito season
11:57and you have shut down
11:58what is probably the single biggest
12:00mosquito breeding ground on your property.
12:03Most homeowners have no idea
12:05the gutters are doing this.
12:07The mosquitoes know.
12:09Now, before I go on,
12:11let me say a word about the part
12:12you cannot buy in a hardware store,
12:15which is walking your property.
12:17Once a week, in summer,
12:19in the cool of the morning,
12:21take an empty coffee can or a small bucket
12:23and walk your whole yard.
12:26Every saucer under every potted plant.
12:29The wheelbarrow leaned against the barn.
12:31The dog dish you do not use anymore.
12:34The folds in the tarp covering the firewood.
12:37The kiddie pool the children left out.
12:39The birdbath.
12:40The clogged downspout.
12:42The old tire pile if you have one.
12:45And if you have one,
12:46please get rid of it
12:47because tires are the worst
12:49single mosquito factory
12:50ever invented by man.
12:53Dump them all.
12:54Turn them over.
12:55Walk the line.
12:57This is what the Agricultural Extension folks
12:59call source reduction.
13:01And it is half the battle.
13:03You can put out 50 buckets of BTI
13:06and it will not do you as much good
13:08as dumping the six little catch pools
13:10you have hiding around your yard.
13:12Five minutes a week.
13:14The mosquito starts in the water.
13:16End her there.
13:17Alright, so you have done the walking
13:19and you have put out the buckets
13:21and you have treated the gutters.
13:23That handles the eggs and the larvae.
13:25But you have a problem.
13:27There are still adult mosquitoes
13:29out there right now,
13:30born last week,
13:32who are looking for blood to feed on
13:33so they can lay one more batch of eggs
13:36before they die.
13:37They are not going to read your mind
13:39and know that the bucket is the place to go.
13:41They are going to come find you on the porch.
13:44So we have to handle the adults too.
13:46And this is where we use
13:48the second piece of the system,
13:49which is also safe for bees and butterflies
13:52and which costs you a few dollars
13:54and an afternoon.
13:55What we use is essential oils,
13:58real ones,
13:59the actual extracts,
14:01cedarwood,
14:02rosemary,
14:03clove,
14:04garlic,
14:05lemongrass,
14:06peppermint.
14:07These are not perfumes.
14:09These are concentrated plant compounds
14:11that have been used as insect repellents
14:14for thousands of years
14:15all over the world
14:16by people who did not have anything else
14:18and figured out what worked.
14:20You can buy them already mixed
14:22in a few different brand name sprays
14:24at the hardware store
14:25in a bottle that hooks up
14:27to your garden hose.
14:28I will tell you flat,
14:30the hose end sprayer
14:31does not work very well.
14:33It puts the spray out too fine
14:35and it runs out too fast.
14:37I use a pump up garden sprayer.
14:40The kind you fill,
14:41pump up by hand
14:42and carry on your shoulder.
14:44About $40 at the hardware store.
14:47Lasts a lifetime.
14:49You fill the tank
14:50about three quarters full with water.
14:52You shake your bottle
14:53of mosquito repellent oil,
14:55really shake it
14:56because the oils settle to the bottom
14:58and you pour in the amount
15:00the label tells you.
15:01For most products,
15:03that works out to four to eight ounces
15:05in a four gallon tank.
15:07You shake the whole sprayer to mix it.
15:09The water turns cloudy
15:10like skim milk.
15:12Then you go around your property
15:13and you spray.
15:14Now here is the trick
15:16most folks get wrong.
15:18Do not spray the open air.
15:20The oils evaporate fast
15:22and you are just wasting them.
15:24What you want to spray
15:25is the underside
15:26of every leaf in your bushes,
15:29your hedges,
15:30your tall flowers,
15:31the eaves of your porch,
15:32the inside of any wooden lattice,
15:35the back of your wood pile.
15:36During the day,
15:38mosquitoes do not fly around.
15:40They rest.
15:41They sit in the shade
15:42on the cool underside of leaves
15:44and in the protected pockets
15:46of your shrubs,
15:47waiting for evening.
15:48Spray those resting places
15:50and you hit the entire adult population
15:53in one afternoon.
15:54Spray your patio furniture.
15:57Spray the wood underneath your deck.
15:59Spray the lattice around your porch.
16:02Do not spray your flowers
16:03that are in bloom.
16:04And this is important
16:05because even though these essential oils
16:08will not kill a honeybee,
16:09they will keep her
16:10from wanting to land there.
16:12If you spray the blossoms,
16:14you are telling your pollinators
16:15to go somewhere else
16:16and that is the opposite
16:18of what we want.
16:19I do my whole farmstead,
16:21the porch,
16:22the bushes around the kitchen door,
16:24the wood stack,
16:25the chicken yard fence line
16:26in about 45 minutes.
16:28It lasts two to three weeks
16:30depending on the rain.
16:32After a heavy thunderstorm,
16:34I do it again.
16:35That is the cost.
16:36Less than an hour a month.
16:38A few dollars in oils.
16:40Now I want to tell you
16:41about two more things
16:42that belong to my community
16:44and that I think you should know about
16:46because they are part of
16:47how we have always done this.
16:49The first is the Purple Martin House.
16:51If you have ever driven
16:52through Lancaster County
16:54or Holmes County in Ohio
16:55or Shipshawana in Indiana,
16:58you have seen them.
16:59Tall white poles
17:00with what looks like
17:01a little white apartment building
17:03on top,
17:0315 feet in the air,
17:05set out in the open
17:06away from the trees.
17:07They are everywhere
17:09on Amish farms.
17:10There is a man named Andy Troyer,
17:13an Amish carpenter
17:14out of Pennsylvania,
17:15who designed
17:16one of the most popular models.
17:18Folks call it the T-14
17:19and you can buy them
17:21at auction in our country
17:22all summer long.
17:23Now I have to tell you
17:25the honest truth here
17:25because there is a story
17:27going around
17:27that one Purple Martin
17:29eats 2,000 mosquitoes a day.
17:31That is not quite right.
17:33The studies have looked
17:34at what is in their stomachs
17:36and the truth is
17:37that mosquitoes
17:37are a small part
17:38of what they eat.
17:40Mostly,
17:41they eat beetles,
17:42dragonflies,
17:43moths,
17:44and the bigger flying insects
17:45that come out in the daylight
17:47when the Martins are hunting.
17:49Mosquitoes come out
17:50mostly after the Martins
17:51have gone to bed.
17:52But here is what
17:53the Martins do.
17:54They eat the bigger insects
17:56that would otherwise
17:56be eating your garden.
17:58They are beautiful to watch.
17:59They sing in the morning.
18:01The children love
18:02to care for them.
18:03And they have been
18:04part of our farms
18:05for 200 years
18:06for reasons that go
18:07beyond mosquito control.
18:09They are good neighbors
18:10and good neighbors
18:11are worth keeping.
18:12So if you have
18:13the open space for one,
18:15they want a tall pole
18:1615 feet up,
18:18at least 60 feet away
18:19from any tree or building,
18:21put one up.
18:22It will not solve
18:23your mosquito problem
18:24on its own.
18:25But it will make your farm
18:27a more lively place
18:28and the kind of property
18:30that is alive
18:30with songbirds
18:31and dragonflies
18:32and bats and frogs
18:34is the kind of property
18:36where the mosquitoes
18:37have a hard time
18:38getting a foothold.
18:39The whole ecosystem
18:40starts working with you
18:42instead of against you.
18:44The second thing
18:45I want to mention
18:46is what my grandmother
18:47used to do at dusk
18:48in the cool part
18:49of the evening
18:50when the family
18:50was sitting on the porch.
18:52She would take
18:53an old tin can,
18:54a coffee can
18:55with a few nail holes
18:57punched in the side
18:58for air
18:58and she would put in
18:59a small handful
19:00of dried herbs
19:01from her garden.
19:03Rosemary,
19:04sage,
19:05dried lavender
19:06and sometimes
19:07a sprig of mugwort
19:08if it was a bad
19:09mosquito year.
19:10She would set
19:11one small piece
19:12of charcoal
19:13on the bottom,
19:14light it
19:14and let the herbs
19:15smolder.
19:16The smoke from those herbs
19:18is what we used
19:19before there was
19:19anything else.
19:21It smells wonderful,
19:22nothing like
19:23a chemical bug spray,
19:24more like a kitchen
19:25at Christmas
19:26and it keeps mosquitoes
19:28out of about
19:28a 10 foot circle
19:30for as long
19:30as the herbs
19:31are smoking.
19:32You can do the same
19:33thing on your patio
19:35tonight.
19:35A small ceramic dish,
19:38a charcoal disc
19:39from the hardware store,
19:40a handful of dried
19:42rosemary or sage
19:43from your kitchen cabinet.
19:45That is it.
19:46The smoke is gentle,
19:48it does not bother
19:49honeybees because
19:49they are already
19:50in the hive
19:51for the night
19:51and the mosquitoes
19:52will not come near it.
19:54I want to leave you
19:56with the bigger picture
19:57because I think
19:57it matters.
19:59Mosquitoes kill
20:00more human beings
20:01every year
20:02than any other animal
20:03on earth.
20:04Not snakes,
20:05not sharks,
20:07not wolves,
20:08not bears.
20:09Mosquitoes.
20:10They spread
20:11West Nile virus
20:13which is in every state
20:14in this country now.
20:15They spread
20:16Eastern equine
20:17encephalitis
20:18which is rare
20:19but kills a third
20:20of the people
20:21who catch it.
20:22In other parts
20:23of the world
20:23they spread malaria
20:25which still kills
20:26more than half a million
20:27people a year
20:28most of them children.
20:30This is serious business.
20:32We are not just talking
20:33about an itchy bump
20:34on your arm.
20:35But the way
20:36most of the country
20:37has been told
20:38to handle the problem
20:39call the company,
20:40sign the contract,
20:42let them spray your yard
20:43once a month
20:44with something
20:44that kills
20:45every insect it touches.
20:47That is not the only way.
20:48It is not even
20:49the best way.
20:50It is the way
20:51that makes someone money.
20:53The honeybee population
20:55in this country
20:55is in trouble.
20:57Twenty years of decline.
20:58Whole hives collapsing.
21:01There are a lot of reasons
21:02but one of the reasons
21:03is that the same chemicals
21:05being used to kill
21:06mosquitoes in suburban yards
21:07are also killing the bees
21:09that pollinate the food
21:10in those yards.
21:12You cannot kill the pests
21:13without killing the helpers
21:15if you use the wrong tool.
21:16And every Amish farmer
21:18I know who keeps bees
21:20has the same complaint
21:21about the lawn care trucks
21:23driving through
21:24our townships
21:24in the summer.
21:25They are killing
21:26our livelihood
21:27while they pretend
21:28to be helping
21:29their neighbors.
21:30BTI does not kill bees.
21:33Essential oil sprays
21:34do not kill bees.
21:36Source reduction
21:37does not kill anything
21:38except mosquitoes.
21:39The whole system
21:40I just described,
21:42buckets,
21:43dunks,
21:43oils,
21:44smudge,
21:45walking the property,
21:46costs less than
21:47one month of professional service,
21:49takes one weekend
21:50to set up
21:51and you can run it yourself
21:52for the rest of your life
21:54with no contract,
21:55no chemical,
21:56no harm done.
21:57This is what we have
21:58always done.
22:00Not because we are clever.
22:01Because we had no choice.
22:03When you cannot drive
22:04to the hardware store
22:05and you cannot call
22:07the spray truck
22:07and you cannot pay
22:09the contract,
22:10you figure out
22:11what actually works
22:12with what you have at hand.
22:13And what we figured out
22:15over generations
22:16was that the mosquito problem
22:18is a water problem
22:19and the water problem
22:20is a problem
22:21you can solve
22:22with $17
22:23and an hour of attention.
22:25So this weekend,
22:27here is what I want you to do.
22:28Walk your property
22:29with a coffee can.
22:31Dump every saucer,
22:33every bucket,
22:33every wheelbarrow,
22:35every tarp pocket
22:36that has water in it.
22:38Source reduction.
22:39That is step one
22:41and it is free.
22:42Put out three buckets
22:44in hidden corners,
22:45dark colored,
22:46half full of water,
22:47handful of grass clippings,
22:49one spoonful of mosquito bits
22:51in each.
22:52Hide them where
22:53they will not be seen
22:54but where the mosquitoes
22:55can find them.
22:57Toss a dunk
22:58in your rain barrel,
22:59your gutter,
23:00any drain pipe
23:01or low spot
23:02that holds water
23:03for more than a day or two.
23:05If you have the time,
23:07get yourself
23:07a pump-up garden sprayer
23:09and a bottle of essential oil
23:11mosquito repellent
23:12and spray the underside
23:13of every shrub,
23:15the back of every wood pile,
23:17the lattice of every porch.
23:19That is your weekend.
23:21About $60 in materials total
23:24the first time.
23:26Less than $30 after that
23:27for the whole season.
23:29And by next Saturday evening,
23:31you will be sitting on your porch
23:33in the cool of the day
23:34with no mosquitoes coming for you,
23:37your honeybees still working
23:39the flowers,
23:40your butterflies still on the lavender,
23:43your dog drinking out of
23:44whatever puddle she pleases.
23:46Tell me in the comments below
23:48where you live
23:49and what your mosquito situation
23:51is like right now.
23:52I read every one of these.
23:55And tell me if you put out a bucket.
23:57I want to hear how it goes.
23:59The folks in my community
24:01already know this works.
24:02I am writing this for the folks
24:04outside of it
24:05who were never told.
24:07Next time,
24:08I am going to show you
24:09what my grandmother used to do
24:11to keep flies out of the kitchen
24:13in August,
24:13which involves a glass jar,
24:16a piece of paper,
24:17and one ingredient from the pantry
24:19that you would never guess.
24:22It worked for a hundred years
24:24before sticky paper was invented,
24:26and it still works better
24:28than anything you can buy.
24:29Until then,
24:32stay cool,
24:33stay watchful,
24:34and remember,
24:35the people who built this country
24:37with their hands
24:38knew things we are only
24:40just starting to remember.
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