Monthly Archives: December 2015

Many of you in reading this little blog know that I don’t tend to pull punches with organizations that I feel aren’t living up to their promises. I have been critical of the Friends of the Madrona Marsh I have … Continue reading →

I am standing near downtown Los Angeles and sent the following to another client who responded with pleasure that they were so blessed. I have just been fortunate enough to be standing here and watching a little Bushtit pick bugs … Continue reading →

http://www.vegetariat.com/2015/12/plant-guild-5-mining-plants/ Now for a little comfrey prosthelytizing: Comfrey keeps coming back when chopped, so it is often grown around fruit producing trees to be chopped and dropped as a main fertilizer. Its leaves are so high in nutrition that they … Continue reading →

I almost put goop down these holes and then I said to myself, you know they are not doing any damage here. It may be a jumping off point to attack my trees 20 30 feet away but right here, … Continue reading →

http://www.vegetariat.com/2015/12/plant-guild-4-nitrogen-fixing-plants/ [Quote] It would be pompous for us to believe that plants, which began about 450 million years ago on Earth, just fiddled around until their true keepers (humans) came along and evolved enough to produce chemical nitrogen to dump … Continue reading →

This morning I was out checking the orchard. I was putting some vegetable goop down gopher holes (old, fermented, mushy okra is God’s gift as a gopher deterrent) and happened to look up… and saw exactly why I work so … Continue reading →

>http://netnebraska.org/article/news/989947/cheaper-easier-monitoring-could-hasten-water-clean br>[quote] Decades-old systems of field tiling, which drain fields of excess water, keep crops from drowning. But they also concentrate nutrients in water flowing across the Midwest and into the Mississippi River. That’s contributed to a dead zone in … Continue reading →

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, (except for Greece, New York,) or prohibiting the free exercise thereof (except for Muslims); or abridging the freedom of speech, (except reporters who refuse to reveal who supplied them with … Continue reading →

I’m talking to a friend the other day and she’s telling me how she and her daughter are watching a movie on dung beetles while eating. I really like them. The other day with a group of outdoors people, I … Continue reading →

So I hiked up to check the fairy shrimp habitat on a hilltop near my house this morning. Because after the rains, I figured that it might have some water in it :-) By the way if you’re in California … Continue reading →