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http://www.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct3=MAA4CkgCUABgAWoCdXPYAQE&usg=AFQjCNEgM-Pd-tdpCi9qPzIgcRLtbDuqkA&rt=HOMEPAGE&url=http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/may/09/baby-bald-eagle-hatches-in-ramona-grasslands/&ei=492OUZjCEcmsiAL0_AE Cool! A little bit of information about what bald eagles would eat in a grassland environment. http://www.rma.army.mil/refuge/wildrma.html : end by voice recognition on bob’s droid. Sorry for the Weird capitalization. Website http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/ Spread the Good News Below: Permaculture!    

Maybe I should call my place Three Rabbit Estates :-) Spread the Good News Below: Permaculture!    

I must have thousands of ladybugs. They’re all over the stinging nettle down in the orchard. They are also all over one of my aquatic plants in constructed wetland. 1 picture is a mustard plant with 4 on it. 2 … Continue reading →

I have found two more CA native plants that work in the first section of the wetland. The section with the highest amount of soap coming in. Creeping water Primrose and mares tail. Yes! Spread the Good News Below: Permaculture!    

One of my trees an Asian pear looked terrible this spring. There were bugs and aphids and little scale insects all over it. The new growth was shriveled and blackened. I transferred a couple of ladybugs and ladybug larvae to … Continue reading →

So I’m reading on a permaculture site ( you know, that permies site that is supposed to be so big) about people — I should say children– who want to kill everything they A) don’t like. B) Are afraid of … Continue reading →

So this is for everyone who wants to grow all their own food. I found a website www.eriksjodin.net that has some fun information on the water fern azolla. Anyone who has seen my constructed wetland will know that I have … Continue reading →

Well after almost two years I finally had a leak in one of my boxes. The plants got heavy and spread the seams too much. One of the things I like about my design is that I can eliminate one … Continue reading →

One of the big things on the permaculture sites notably permies.com is the refusal to use soap for a variety of very good reasons. While I am not there yet — if ever. It is not freaking hard at all … Continue reading →

It was, and still is, fairly large, and that bulge in the middle is not a frog, certainly not a tadpole, and ummm not a lizard. Unfortunately it is one of my $10 koi. Oh well it is just like … Continue reading →