Kill Every TICK In Your Yard... SAFE For Pets & Kids!

🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach: https://eliasyoder.com There is a small creature waiting in the long grass at the edge of your yard right now. No bigger than the head of a pin if it is young, no bigger than a sesame seed if it has grown. It sits on the tip of a blade of grass with its little front legs out, and it waits for a warm body to walk past so it can grab on. Once it is on you, it climbs — up the sock, up the calf, to the soft skin behind the knee. There it bites, and there it stays, drinking, for days at a time, and what it leaves behind in your blood can change your life. That is a tick. And the children we used to send running through the grass without a thought — we cannot send them anymore the way we used to. Lyme disease cases have tripled in the last fifteen years. There is a newer one called alpha-gal syndrome that the lone star tick carries — and one bite can leave a person allergic to all red meat and dairy for the rest of their life. Four hundred and fifty thousand cases are suspected in this country already. That is not fear talking. That is the plain truth of what is in the grass. In this video I walk you through four real methods that drive ticks out of your yard and keep them off your skin — for less than the cost of a single visit from the pest control truck. The cheapest version costs four dollars. The most lasting version pays off for years. I am Amish, and I will be honest with you the whole way. I show you the four-dollar homemade cedar oil spray with the exact recipe (one teaspoon cedarwood essential oil, one cup distilled water, one tablespoon witch hazel as an emulsifier), the store-bought option for folks who do not want to mix, the cedar wood chip perimeter barrier that protects your yard for two to three years from a single application (and how to get it free from a local tree service), and the three-cent duct tape trick that hunters and foresters use to stop ticks from reaching skin in the first place. I tell you the honest science. In a laboratory, cedar oil kills and repels ticks at rates of eighty to ninety percent. In a real backyard, the field studies done by the disease researchers show more modest results — five to twenty-five percent knockdown, and a few weeks of partial suppression. That is real, and it is useful, but I will not tell you cedar clears every tick. What it does is drive them away from the spots you treat, kill the ones that come into direct contact, and dramatically reduce the population on your property — especially when you stack the four methods together. And I give you the safety word plainly, because this matters most for folks with pets. Cedar oil is gentle compared to the chemical sprays — but it is not safe for cats. Cats cannot metabolize essential oils the way dogs can, and direct exposure can harm them. Never spray cedar oil on a cat, never apply it to a cat's bedding, do not treat the inside of your house with it if you have a cat. For outdoor perimeter use, where cats only pass through, it is generally fine. And here is the honest comparison nobody tells you — the chemical tick sprays the lawn-care companies use contain permethrin, which is far more dangerous to cats than cedar oil. A cat that walks across a freshly permethrin-sprayed lawn and licks its paws can have seizures within hours. Cedar oil, used with sense, is the safer choice by a long way. But essential oils still deserve respect — out of reach of children, never on skin without dilution. The pest control truck wants four to seven hundred dollars for a tick season. Their main ingredient is permethrin — the chemical that puts cats in the emergency room. There is no money in selling a man a ten-dollar bottle of cedar oil that lasts a season, a band of free cedar chips, and a roll of duct tape. So nobody runs a commercial for any of it, and a whole nation thinks the only answer to ticks is the white truck and the seven-hundred-dollar contract. It is not. It never has been. Tell me in the comments below — where do the ticks get bad on your property? The fence line, the woods edge, the dog yard, the kids' play area? And if you live in a part of the country where ticks are at their worst — the Northeast, the upper Midwest, parts of the South — tell us how bad it has gotten this year. I read every single one. Next time: the old way my people keep mice and rats out of the granary and the home — the simple traps, the doorway tricks, and the small habits that mean you never have a mouse problem in the first place. Subscribe so you do not miss it. #TickControl #CedarOil #Homesteading #NaturalPestControl #SelfReliance #Amish #LymeDisease #YardCare #OffGrid #FrugalLiving #Prepping #DIY #PetSafe #BackyardSafety #OutdoorLiving