Strangely fascinated by hunting magazines… Stumbled across a copy of the Wild Turkey Association’s magazine in a waiting room earlier today. Quite a few useful articles on conservation and land management… alongside the ads for guns of course, including hand guns for self defence. (Never thought I’d be talking about guns in this blog!) Now, even as a vegetarian I can appreciate that culling can be an important, even necessary, component of conservation, but all the same I find reading these magazines a weird experience. The overall impression: Hey, isn’t nature wonderful! Here’s how to attract wildlife to your land… and now let’s kill it!
Permaculture
I’ve just subscribed to Permaculture Activist magazine. My first act of the day… prompted by checking my email and seeing that someone has decided to follow me, offgridgrrl, on Twitter! Yay, thank you! So instead of just tweeting about permaculture, I thought I’d take a step towards putting it into practice. Looking foward to receiving the next issue, but in the meantime I thought I’d browse the rest of their catalogue… And so I come to the page on forests/wildlife books, and I want all of them of course! (Most of my acres are forest.) But I must focus here: I’m buying land at the moment NOT extending my library (again).