How many acres do you need to live off the grid? How many acres do you need to live off grid? For a small family,1/4 acreis enough to grow most of your own food and live self sufficiently. If you want to harvest your own timber for heat, then 5 – 10 acres is plenty to surv...
Many a night, during the mating season, we have high numbers of frogs in the duckweed ponds. We encourage everything here with the exception of cane toads. There are beetles and other aquatic life which have made their way into the ponds on the feet of herons. It is always a good idea...
footprint than fossil fuels do, depending on how they are sourced, but there has been a recent opposition against them. This is partly because so many crops now go into energy production rather than food. Besides, biofuels take up more than 100 million acres of the world’s agricultural ...
As average temperatures rise in Kansas, there has been a reduction in consecutive days below freezing, allowing armadillos to travel further north than ever before (there have even been armadillo sightings in Nebraska and Illinois). Biologists from the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and ...
Suppose a town is deciding how many acres of a park should be preserved. The local community has 200 people, each of whom has an identical inverse demand function given by P = 15 - 2 q, where q is the number of acres preserved and P is the pe...
When there is a porcupine sighting, it's usually way up at the tippy top of the many stands of pine trees on our property. Porcu"pines" love pine trees, as you might note from their name. If our dogs spot a porcupine before we do, it's a struggle to get them to back off. We...
cheap land on the edge of so many cities has helped fuel our suburban sprawl. It’s happened in every metro across America — cities are expanding faster than their population, taking up more acres for each person. Even cities that haven’t seen population growth have grown in overall area...
Hunting is on the decline across the nation, and many hunters in Iowa are saying that that could be detrimental in terms of controlling the deer population. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources estimates that the state has a deer herd of 500,000, writes The Associated Press,which could ...
Many dream of moving to the country and some take the steps to make that dream a reality. Paula Whyman had a “crazy” idea to cultivate a small native meadow where wildlife could thrive. Then she set foot on 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain and her dream became a re...