permaculture

["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

Mark, In our climate the key is keeping the snakes worm, so the rocks need
to be exposed to the sun.  They make their homes behind the rock walls that
support the forest garden beds.  In the summer they frequent the horse
radish patch and loveage,  jerome
--
Jerome Osentowski, Director
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
PO Box 631
Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.

Tel/fax (970) 927-4158    E mail: jerome@crmpi.org

For more information, please visit our web site at <<www.crmpi.org>>


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>From: Mark Ludwig <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
>To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: Caragana +@Jerome
>Date: Mon, Oct 28, 2002, 4:31 PM
>

> At 06:57 AM 10/28/02 -0700, you wrote:
>>15 years ago I brought up a dozen garder snakes
>>from my walks down to the spring that runs 80 feet below the ridge where our
>>forest garden and greenhouse are located.
>
> I've wondered if one could build a hibernaculum and snake habitat garden
> out of an old septic tank,  root cellar or some such filled with lots of
> rock platforms and vented with an easy to access snake entrance hole.
> Mark
>
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