Groundhog Caught Destroying Guy's Garden Brings His Whole Family For Dinner

The Dodo

Groundhog caught on camera smugly eating all the veggies in this guy's garden  We're celebrating Earth Day by talking to Jeff, an avid garden whose life was turned upside down when he met Chunk, a groundhog with a big appetite.   6 years later, he's feeding Chunk and his many children and grandchildren the freshest veggies and he’s about to release a children’s book to recount their very special journey!

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00:00It all started six years ago when I noticed some crop damage, with chunks being taken

00:08out of the tomatoes, cucumbers, one chunk onto the next one, another chunk.

00:14I was really puzzled, so I put my security camera onto the garden.

00:20I was at work, got a notification on the phone, out of nowhere, pops up this groundhog, starts

00:25chewing in the camera with all of this swagger, like, yeah, I'm the one here, eating your

00:31vegetables, what are you going to do about it?

00:34I was blown away.

00:35It was me against this groundhog.

00:37Every day, I was thinking of ways to keep him out.

00:41I would build a fence really high, I would put logs and wood and stuff underneath.

00:46But no matter what I did, it would fail.

00:48And every day, he would pop up into the camera, same look on his face.

00:58Around August, I've been eyeing up this big, juicy tomato for three weeks, and today was

01:02the day I was going to come home, make a sandwich.

01:04I went out to the garden, and that same tomato had a big chunk taken out of it.

01:10And it was that moment there that I was like, all right, I give up.

01:14He probably had the same thoughts, like, I'm just going to wait for that thing to get real

01:18ripe, and I'm going to go take a bite out of it.

01:20So he beat me to it.

01:21At that point, I just stopped fighting.

01:22This is his land, too.

01:24I just embraced it.

01:28One day, I get a notification, and I'm thinking, oh, it's Chunk again.

01:31But two of them pop up into the camera.

01:33I guess Chunk loved it so much, he brought his girlfriend Nibbles to show off, and now

01:38I have two groundhogs to deal with.

01:41My harvest was going down, so everybody was losing their cut of the organic vegetables

01:47that they looked forward to.

01:49My mom, my family.

01:51But then I saw the baby Chunks.

01:54So I was like, okay, I'm going to have to give them their very own garden.

01:59So my whole family embraced it.

02:02My boys were out there every day helping me.

02:09My mom ended up getting her own garden that I helped her with.

02:12It's my grandfather who taught me everything about gardening.

02:15He just recently passed at the young age of 99, and I got the green thumb from him.

02:22I really enjoy seeing the moments with Nibbles and Chip Nugget or Chibbles when they're trying

02:27to share a tomato or a carrot with mom, and mom's just sitting there letting it happen,

02:33and the baby's just getting juice all over its face, just trying to eat, too.

02:39It's so wholesome.

02:41That really brings it home, the fact that they're really not much different than we

02:44are.

02:45They're just taking care of their kid like we take care of ours.

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