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Showing posts with label Voles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voles. Show all posts
Saturday, April 26, 2014

The Garden in the Second Part: Broccoli, and Garlic, and Greens, Oh, My!

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What is a garden to you? Having just walked through my vigorously blooming front flower bed on the way to the front door, a visitor last s...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Animal Enigmas: Spring on the Prairie

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Spring on the prairie can be quite enigmatic.  Heck, life on the prairie, at any time, can be quite enigmatic! As I walked around this mo...
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Gaia Gardener:
First it was bugs in jars. Then it was toad races in the sand box. Next, I obsessed over seashells and all the animals living in tidal pools and along the shore. Finally I went to college and studied biology, accidentally becoming a birder and amateur entomologist along the way. Raising a family gave me the impetus to start gardening. Now, many years later, I have come full circle back to bugs, though rarely do I catch them in jars any more. The more I learn, the more fascinated I become with the intricate web of biological connections surrounding us every day. Wasps that lay their eggs on paralyzed grasshoppers. Mosquitoes that prey on other mosquito larvae. Flea beetles that will only consume plant material from one genus of plants. What I can observe and learn in my own backyard is staggering. By caring for that yard organically, the small world that I provide for a huge variety of creatures is enlightening, enlivening, and enriching. How can anyone ever get bored?!
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