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If you don't want critters eating your veggies, you have to set up a fence around your garden.
Or just grow enough strawberries as tribute, apparently...
It does help to live in the middle of a fertile forest, with lots to eat. But I still have no chance of getting strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, or currants for myself without a fence. Even with raspberries and blackberries growing everywhere wild, they'll still eat all mine.
Take it as a compliment.
You grew berries the wildlife preferred. You beat nature. Look at those wild berries and shame them, for they will never be as delicious and their seeds will not be spread.
Ehh, I've still had critters get in. We don't have a permanent patch, so we didn't bury the chicken wire, so things went under - even when it was staked down pretty well.
We have also had (presumably) animals go over the top and bend the whole fence inwards just to get in. ยฏ\(ใ)/ยฏ