Hello Michele and thanks for sharing this.
Voles can be so annoying, you describe it well: I wonder whether trapping can eliminate the population, which must have been high in the old pasture.
I hope your multi-sown crops are productive.
On the subject of gophers, I received this from an American reader in Washington state:
“Eliot Coleman uses little wooden boxes with holes in them that lead to mouse-traps.
Think of a box about 12 by 12 by 8. A cigar box about 2x taller than normal cigar boxes.
Bore a hole about 1″ or so in one lower corner. Bore an identical hole in the other front corner so the holes line up.
He doesn’t use any bait.
He just puts the holes in line with their normal runs.”