Stop Tick Bites Before They Happen — Amish Tips That Work

By the time you feel a tick, it is usually already buried in the one place you cannot see — and the way most people dress for the woods makes that worse, not better. In this video I show you the way my mother and grandmother kept ticks off our family on the farm, long before anybody could buy a thing in a bottle: why bare skin is your best warning system, the evening check that catches them before they bite, the sticky-tape trick for the ones you find crawling, and how to make your own dooryard a place ticks do not want to be — using the sun, the short grass, and even the mice themselves. None of it costs much, and most of it costs nothing but attention.
I've written all of this household knowledge down plainly in a little book over at eliasyoder.com, the kind of thing that used to pass from one woman to the next at the kitchen table.
Try the evening check and the dry sunny strip this season, then tell me in the comments: did the ticks pull back from your house? And tell me the county you live in and how old your house is — the old places hold their own wisdom, and I learn as much from you as you do from me.
0:00 — The tick you find in bed (hook)
1:05 — The tick isn't the real prob