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  • From: Hans Brinkmann <hans-brinkmann@t-online.de>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fruit & ecological systems
  • Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:55:18 +0100

Hallo William Freels,
unfortunately by mistake, you mixed up the NAFEX forum with something else...
ciao
Hans

William Freels schrieb:
AMEN
----- Original Message ----- From: <martha_davis@highstream.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 5:16 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] Fruit & ecological systems


Donna &/or Kieran schrieb:
Cats may take their toll, but the humans are doing more than their fair
share. What's really reduced the quail population in Tennessee is
fescue,
they say that it's so thick that baby quail can't move around in it.
The
other thing, that really gets me, is the damned weedeaters. People move
out
in the country and try to make their entire yard look like a carpet,
including cutting all grass and weeds right up to the road. They have
nice
smooth expanses which would be convenient for watching wildlife, if only
there were any wildlife left to watch. Sure, deer and rabbits eat
grass,
Donna comments are certainly well taken. Another movement that addresses
some
of these concerns in a more pallnnned ecological way in the permaculture
movement and forest gardens. They are often a planned ecolofical system
including fruit plants and nuts, but also other food plants and
insetariary
plants etc etc.

Martha


> but quail need bugs and weed/grass SEEDS, which aren't produced when
everything is kept 2" high.
Another thing that gets me is the horse population. Used to be that
horse lovers would have one horse. Now they have 4 of them, in the same
space. The horses not only eat everything down to the ground, but they
are
dependent on lots of hay and grain. I hardly ever see anyone actually
ride
one of the creatures.
If you stop and think about it, most NAFEXers increase species
diversity. Certainly compared to the average American lawn, we create
more
green stuff at different heights, creating both cover and food. At our
place, the soil was so terrible in the cleared area that few species of
weeds would grow. Now the soil is better over an acre or so, and we
have
provided a great deal of food to the voles, flying squirrels( they like
tomatoes), chicken snakes (they like eggs) hawks and owls (they like
chickens), cardinals (they like chicken feed, and peas pecked fresh from
the
pods) and a multitude of birds that like blueberries. A bit of
controlled
predation is not a bad thing, especially as so many wild predators are
gone.
The real enemy for birds is loss of food and habitat. I remember
someone
years ago commenting that after bug zappers became a fad, they heard and
saw
far fewer birds. Donna
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