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Diane’s excellent plant guild series has a new addition: http://www.vegetariat.com/2015/12/plant-guild-3-sub-canopy/ Also: I have way of re-purposing that horrible plastic deer/bird netting. Plastic netting is a complete and utter disaster for the environment. First, it catches snakes and lizards and leaves … Continue reading →

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-antidepressant-pregnancy-autism-20151214-story.html Interesting story. I, fortunately, do not have children with autism. However, I know several parents who do and I truly wish them well. I am highly concerned about the neurotoxins that we spray all over our food and thus … Continue reading →

I am going to buy another apple tree and put it in the orchard. I have bought four apple trees over the years and all of them were decimated by the Gophers. Gophers seem to adore apple trees. At least … Continue reading →

http://m.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1204/Habitat-loss-could-spell-trouble-for-91-percent-of-migratory-birds And flooding rice fields that have been sprayed with pesticides and have no ecology and no aquatic animal food chain is not, in my opinion, the best replacement for Wetlands. Why don’t you convert your unused/underused swimming pool? Bob … Continue reading →

Yeehaw. The second of Diane Kennedy’s plant guild series is out. [quote] Canopy provides protective shelter for many kinds of mammals, birds, reptiles and insects as they hide under the leaves. A mature oak is home to over 300 species. … Continue reading →

Here is a great article on plant associations and communities. The same idea as companion planting but on a Permaculture scale :-) http://www.vegetariat.com/2015/11/plant-guilds-work-1/ [Quote] The Southern California hills and mountains there are small forests of tall shrubs called California lilac, … Continue reading →

The following is a comment on something I was re-editing that I saw and read again. I like it so much I’m going to post it again because I think building community amongst Permaculture people is incredibly important but it’s … Continue reading →

Here is one way of looking at it :-) Even though its intent is a sushi dinner, it won’t be able to catch more than maybe one or two at best. It’s mostly hoping for little chorus frogs and tadpoles. … Continue reading →

The article http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/UC-Davis-scientist-develop-a-clever-way-to-6596426.php is about diverting large amounts of rain water into farmland and letting it then percolate into the soil and recharge the groundwater supply. Wow really clever idea let’s divert as much water as possible into the most … Continue reading →

[quote]Sulfoxaflor is a systemic insecticide which acts as an insect neurotoxin and is a member a class of chemicals called sulfoximines which act on the central nervous system of insects. …. Because sulfoxaflor binds much more strongly to insect neuron … Continue reading →