LOL, they're too busy eating all the groceries in town! I actually know a little town in SD that people needed to put large fences around if they wanted gardens. The deer just thought they owned the town LOL. Used to go hunting rabbits in eastern OR. Most farmers didn't mind 'cause they can be quite destructive to alfalfa crops, and it helps keep disease down too.
Hopefully maybe you can find some late season plants that can still produce into the fall.