Oh, I almost forgot about the ‘bread’ thing. We did something similar. We have a tangerine tree and its fruit usually ripens around January, right after New Years.
We pick it all and bag a dozen or so for each of our neighbors.
That first year we gave them a bag and didn’t get so much as a thank you.........................
Badgers are generally solitary, vicious, musky-smelling, creatures. The mirror image of such is likely to cause an avoidance reaction by other species. Let me say thank you for all God’s creatures.