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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 →

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Or up a telephone pole as the case may be. This must be 60 feet up in the air. I think it’s a kitten. I can’t see it well enough to know if its the mother. At first I was … Continue reading →

Well I just gave a tour of my constructed wetland water reclamation system. I am overjoyed to see the enthusiasm that the “next generation” has for water conservation and protecting our environment. At one point in the tour I handed … Continue reading →

We bathe in a warm foamy bath of biological life. Our human cells are outnumbered 10 some say as much as 30 to 1 by the bacteria on us. We are walking colonies of bacteria yet our physical bodies are … Continue reading →