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This site is about the industry that I have been in for many years. We referred to it as the Green Industry. The word GREEN has a slightly different connotation now.
As I think about what to do after having spent forty years dealing with trees, landscapes, irrigation, and ponds, I find that I still have a great deal of interest in growing things and observing nature at work.
Ponds, Koi, and watergardens, entomology and gardening keep my interest.
I have been raising a few of my favorite water lilies and lotus, and as I write this (May 17th) my koi are spawning.
I now have time to explore some other areas of interest. When I had a full time job, I did not get time enough to look at some of the environmental issues that I knew about, but never studied.
On the right side of this page, I have mentioned Bristol Bay Alaska. I became familiar with this issue when I went fly fishing in Alaska in 2007.
Most people who I encounter, do not know much about this situation or many other issues that I find fascinating. I plan to reference some of those on this site. Go to the Environment page for some links and comments about the world’s worst environmental disasters.
I hope you find it interesting.
On the sidebar to the left are the internal links to other pages.
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Free Baby Koi
For several years we gave away new born koi to parents and grandparents. I believe we will be able to do that again this year.
Today is Saturday May 17th and the koi that I transferred over to the “Mud Pond” spawned last night. There will be 50,000 eggs and probably that many babies in a five days or so.
Last year the frogs that I can not keep out of the Mud pond gobbled them all up within a few weeks.. But this year things are different.
First of all here is the program. Baby koi can be raised in an aquarium successfully. Once they get a couple of inches long they can be moved to a pond. Generally, larger koi are not aggressive however it might be a good idea to move the baby koi to a little larger area outside before moving them into the main pond.
If you have children or grandchildren who would like to have some babies to raise out, I will have lots of them soon. You have to come here and I will scoop up a net full of small fry and place them in a plastic bag.
More on the Koi page
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