permaculture

[Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

At 07:50 AM 10/29/02 -0700, you wrote:
> 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.

I was thinking of a place for them to winter.  such places gather large 
numbers of snakes in the fall, sometimes a mix of species.  I'm interested 
in basking rocks too, worked some flatter darker stones into my rock garden 
just for this.  Keep an eye out for basking snakes on the road in the fall, 
I like to "relocate" such critters as they usually get squashed otherwise.
M

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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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Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM