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Happy Groundhog Day

Happy New Year! Welcome to the year of the Rabbit and happy Groundhog Day! Winter is nearly over!

We had great fun when we lived in upstate New York, we had a few groundhogs as our neighbors – they just loved eating up my garden. Gary the groundhog gives you a look into his daily activities as he goes about his business in the Catskills of New York. What a cute, funny, rolly-polly fellow he was:

Masanobu Fukuoka on “Work”

Masanobu Fukuoka on “Work”

From my favorite inspiring Little Green Book The One Straw Revolution...this book makes great bedtime reading, as you get such lovely images to dream about. It is basically a collection of some of the things he said, so some chapters are only a couple pages long--if you tend to fall right asleep whe ...

Beaver Dam

Beaver Dam

This hardworking beaver didn't notice us quietly fishing as he worked furiously on his dam. According to wikipedia: The North American beaver population was once more than 60 million, but as of 1988 was 6–12 million. This population decline is due to extensive hunting for fur, for glands used a ...

Cycle of Life – Toads

Cycle of Life – Toads

The annual toad orgy which produces tons of eggs and later turns the shallow waters near the shore of the pond black with the swimming bodies of thousands upon thousands of tadpoles. A few weeks later there are hundreds upon hundreds of miniature toads heading off in every direction from the pond. N ...

Deer in the Catskills

Deer in the Catskills

This slideshow takes us through the whole cycle of life including the birth in spring of twin bambis. We even get a look at deer droppings as well as deer eating. These cycles of life are unavoidable, death is as inevitable as birth, it is ultimately counter-productive to try to sterilize this reali ...

A Question for Vegetarians

A Question for Vegetarians

I have a question I have always wanted to ask a few vegetarians, and perhaps this is a good place to finally do so... Is there that much difference between an animal and a plant? In recent years, and especially after reading Stephen Harrod Bruhner's book The Secret Teaching of Plants, D ...