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[Tripp Tibbetts <slowfoodguy@yahoo.com>]

Sounds like quite a menagerie!
 
I miss the cardinals.
 
Keep nourishing, Lawrence!



The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
-Chinese proverb
 

--- On Thu, 12/24/09, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net> 
wrote:


From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] [Fwd: [SANET-MG] Convert landfills to compost!]
To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thursday, December 24, 2009, 1:20 AM


Tripp Tibbetts wrote:

>I've noticed that the more I pay attention to nature, and the less I listen 
>to the
>buffoons, the more I realize that the planet is already beginning to
>recover. A new breeding pair of northern flickers moved into my 'hood
>this fall, to join the kestrel that arrived mid-summer. That kestrel
>lives almost exclusively on the flock of sparrows that dog my chicken
>feed. So right in the middle of all the ignorance and self-important
>greed, now my little urban garden has its own kestrel.

I have always been impressed with the need to leave a certain amount of 
your property absolutely undisturbed. Then in the portion you're active 
in you are pleasantly suprised with all sorts of wild visitors. Here 
there plenty of hawks, the local small and large varieties and at least 
three types of owls, barn swallows, whipporwills, some bird that makes a 
sound like a swooning lady that lives only in the wooded areas nearby,
another that makes a musical clucking sound possibly a snipe or a bird 
in the coocoo family, plenty of crows who often harass the hawks 
guarding their nests with young, blue herons, geese, vultures, quail, 
mourning doves, wonderful songbirds, indigo buntings, bluebirds, 
finches, woodpeckers, wrens and sparrows, bluejays, robins (very early 
spring/late winter) and cardinals. I also have foxes, opossums, gophers,
deer, interesting field mice that look like kangaroo mice, racoons, 
black snakes, garden snakes and copperhead snakes and black widow 
spiders to keep me totally awake and keenly vigilant night and day (they 
give me the willys).

>Since humans are part and parcel of Nature, there's a damn good
>chance
>that our recovery will go the same direction. Everywhere I look I see
>new gardens, new urban chickens, more people walking, biking, and
>talking on the streets. My front yard garden draws neighbors like a
>honey pot draws flies, and they tell me they feel safer with me on the
>look-out.

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I think you're right, its happening; all we need to do is nourish the
trend, as you are already doing.

LL
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Tripp Tibbetts wrote:
> Sounds like quite a menagerie!
>
> I miss the cardinals.
>
> Keep nourishing, Lawrence!

More every year. I have not heard the whipporwills
for a long time, nor the bobwhites (same as doves?),
less owls, less doves. Probably development, deforestration,
pesticides, gmo's, offroading morons etc., less natural wegetation
and weed diversity, less wildlife food is probably a big factor,
emerging dominance of certain invasive species or lopsided balance of
existing ones as the more fragile may have lost food source, habitat.
Atmospheric pollution and drought may also be a factor to consider.

I catch nearly all the water that falls on my property that doesn't stay
in the gardens or fallow fields in three small ponds strategically
located. The water is nutrient rich and grows cattails, duckweed and
shoreline annual and perennial weeds, some pollen sources. There is a
weed cover that returns each year surrounding the ponds. I have a frog
population you would not believe, at least four types and toads.
You can hear them in these recordings made at night, insects also,
crickets and cicadas:
Index of /ecolandtech/venaurafarm/frogs-in-ponds
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/frogs-in-ponds/FrogsCricketsCicadas-NearPond&Forest.WMA

http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/frogs-in-ponds/northeast-pond-6-30-2008.WMA

http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/frogs-in-ponds/west-pond1-7-1-2008.WMA

http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/frogs-in-ponds/west-pond2-7-1-2008.WMA

Dragonflies, aquatic insects, beneficial insects (ladybugs and praying
mantis) and a horde of all colors, shapes and sizes of alternative
pollinators. I have recorded some of their sounds in summer.

The recordings were made with a little inexpensive hand held Olympus
solid state digital with stereo microphone.

Here's a pic of duckweed in a small pool growing with other aquatic plants:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/duckweed3.jpg
And the rock dust I used to remineralize my gardens:
You can see it in a pile and on rows to be turned into raised beds
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/IG5W0261.JPG
And a close up of the volcanic tuff rock dust, the finest grit of any I
have used:
http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/venaurafarm/IG5W0280.JPG