After Northeast bat colonies suffer a deadly infection, a local bat study takes on new urgency.
Bat Conservation International has lots of interesting info about bats and why you might want to install a bat house to help the little guys out. We got one, but haven't managed to borrow a 30 foot latter to put it up yet. Hmmm...
Welcome to this Cornell University World Wide Web site! This guide provides photographs and descriptions of biological control (or biocontrol) agents of insect, disease and weed pests in North America. It is also a tutorial on the concept and practice of biological control and integrated pest management (IPM). Whether you are an educator, a commercial grower, a student, a researcher, a land manager, or an extension or regulatory agent, we hope you will find this information useful. The guide currently includes individual pages of approximately 100 natural enemies of pest species, and we envision continued expansion. On each...
We do not sell plants at this site, but we want you to have an easy experience finding them. You can create your very own plant list to print out, email to yourself, or save as a wish list. You can add plants to your list two ways:
From each page, you can click on the wheelbarrow icon to review your list and dump out plants you don't want....
http://heavypetal.ca/archives/2007/03/how-to-make-seedballs/
"This past weekend, Al from my guerilla gardening group led a seedball-making workshop. I loved it; it was so satisfying just to get my hands muddy and spend a couple hours in a zen-like trance rolling seedballs… I highly recommend the process!
Here’s the recipe:...
Let worms eat your organic waste! They will happily turn it into some of the best fertilizer on earth – worm compost, otherwise known as “worm castings” or “vermicompost.” A fascinating, fun and easy way to recycle your organic kitchen wastes, vermiculture:
TEN LESSONS TO CREATE YOUR OWN HIGH QUALITY, ORGANIC SOIL AMENDMENT
Packed with all the information that you need to be successful with your first worm bin.
Plants for a future may be defunct (does anyone know), but their database of 7,000 useful plants is still available for searching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZUCxBHeq04
Great video on building self watering containers from our friends at Survive LA.
