permaculture

["J. Kolenovsky" <garden@hal-pc.org>]

I am crazy as hell about backyard wildlife habitats, wildlife sanctuaries,
green corridors and riparian ecosystems. Instead of a backyard wildlife
habitat, I have a front yard wildlife habitat on a corner of a dead end
street. People drive by and gawk all the time. I have over 300 species
planted and over 70% are native. You can imagine the various types of
wildlife. My front yard is registered as a Texas Certified Wildscape, Texas
Wildscape Demonstration Site, National Wildlife Federation and the American
Garden Musuem. 

While its not Bellingraft or Butchart Gardens, it does make an ecological
statement and 
Makes a good wirtness of what I believe and stand for. When people come in
my greenhouse and ask what chemical to use for the "thing" they need to
treat, I give them my recomendation. I then proceed to start telling them
about my yard (while showing pictures) and talking about organic, no
chemicals, beneficial insects, native plants and the fact that I have no
grass. I give them my card. So as they buy their chemical and walk out, 
hopefully they have something new to think about. Some of them recognize me
from the newspaper and television.

Here is a link to my humble yard: http://www.hal-pc.org/~garden/
A second site is http://www.celestialhabitats.com/

I owe all of this progress to a neighbor / permaculturist, Kevin Topek (who
occasionally posts here) who started me composting a sack of leaves in 1992.
Goodness. That sack of leaves sure went a long way.

J
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