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city gardens things make no sense (when it comes to eating said items). Soil in cities can become contaminated by various pollutants such as heavy metals, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and automobile exhaust. These contaminants can have harmful effects on human health and the environment. I'm in favor of gardens, but eating the food? gosh that's a bad idea
city gardens things make no sense (when it comes to eating said items). Soil in cities can become contaminated by various pollutants such as heavy metals, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and automobile exhaust. These contaminants can have harmful effects on human health and the environment. I'm in favor of gardens, but eating the food? gosh that's a bad idea
I've always had a dream to buy a plot of land and homestead. But I have family that is getting older and needs my help more often. The though of being far away from essential services like Hospitals is not ideal. Also I'm still too early in my career to make that move. So, more recently I've been thinking of an idea I call "urban homesteading", which is just based off the idea of not waiting until the perfect circums…
i always do it with my refrigerator
So, not unrelated was a post from reddit where someone built a little better environment for a frog in their yard: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/11czhbt/g... and they ended up with a zoo. While whimsical, it shows very how adjusting your environment just a little bit can really attract wildlife.
That's hilarious. Like what you said, that's really amazing about how small changes propagate. It's crazy how wildlife finds stuff. They know what they're doing.
Personally, I like to plant as many different types of fruit trees, fruit vines and berries as I can and as much diversity as I can. But, I find sticking just to natives is kinda limiting. It's nice to prefer natives but I wouldn't be too religious about it.
Living in the Bay Area, I adore the tall grasses growing on the eastern foothills - you get a nice close-up taking e.g. I-680 to Livermore - and would love to replace much of my yard with the native grasses, but I don't even know where to begin in identifying what species they are, and where to get seed.
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I dont want coyotes and bobcats around my house. neither does anyone who has pets or livestock. There's a reason they were pushed out. We still have owls and other birds of prey. We have raccoons and they are annoying and can damage property.
>I dont want coyotes and bobcats around my house. neither does anyone who has pets or livestock Only people who do a poor job of looking after their pets and livestock fear natural predators the way you do.
Everyone who hears or sees coyotes multiple times a week is careful about things, but also aware that they are a risk to small animals.
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I dont want coyotes and bobcats around my house. neither does anyone who has pets or livestock. There's a reason they were pushed out. We still have owls and other birds of prey. We have raccoons and they are annoying and can damage property.
> We have raccoons and they are annoying and can damage property. Nothing a .22 can't fix, surely?