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"So long as never-ending economic growth remains the goal of our governments and our major financial institutions, and so long as the corporate bottom line continues to put immediate profit above the future of our children and so  long as so many of the world's inhabitants continue to live in unalleviated poverty, the crimes against the natural world will continue. We who care, we who understand, must use every means at our disposal to fight back.  We shall lose some of the battles -- but we must not give up.  And we have a powerful ally, for nature, ever resilient and resourceful, will, given time, clothe a devastated landscape with green growing things so that it becomes a place where animals can once again thrive.  Of course it can take a very long time indeed for such an area to become a well-functioning ecosystem with diverse flora and fauna.  But when the right people--those who truly understand the dynamics of a healthy ecosystem, who have learned by...
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The ducklings appear to have doubled in size in about a week.  Nothing scientific -- it's not like I weighed or measured them or anything -- but they are noticeably bigger! They instinctively kept close to the big ones in the duck house, and by the end of the first night the big ones were sitting on the little ones to keep them warm.  Although I really don't think the big ones did it by choice, I think they just gave up out of sheer exhaustion from being chased around by the little ones inside their house for hours. We kept the little ones in the duck house for a few days, and finally herded them outside for a few minutes to get the lay of the land, each day allowing a little more time outside with the big ones. Tori (our lovable canine companion) has been the most excited out of anyone about the new babies.  She was in the car with us when we brought them home from Tractor Supply, after all.  Anytime they make noise she wants to go outside and check on them...
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Garden Update We had some surprise visitors yesterday!  This big guy and 6 of his closest friends were wandering around the neighborhood looking for bugs and fresh grit.  That was a first in our yard! Trying the Ruth Stout method of no-till straw gardening to start a permanent garden for the first time on this property.  So far I'm impressed -- a bale of straw the same size as a bag of cedar chips goes three times as far, and counting!  It makes great bedding for the ducks, and when it gets too mucked up from being in the duck house, I just move it to the garden and it makes a superb mulch!  Crusty on top, moist in the middle... yum!  :) Tractor Supply got in a spring shipment of root stock so I picked up some Mary Washington asparagus on a whim just to see how it would do.  After the first rain it sprouted right up!  And it just keeps coming! Also expanding the wicking bed experiment into hydroponics -- can it be successfu...
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