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RE: FISHING – FROM A HOMESTEADING STEWARD'S POINT OF VIEW

in #homesteading7 years ago

Yes @papa-pepper, you are so on the money with this. The world around us is being so badly desecrated and damaged that each and everyone of that has some little foothold on the planet needs to steward and care for it with all their power.

I am blessed to have a few acres of the gorgeous green countryside of wild west Wales in the UK. I strive continuously to make what we have better for nature and better for the future. So far we have planted 11,000 native trees and in amongst those I am finding space for 100 fruit trees and 100 nut trees. Eleven thousand for the birds and insects and 200 for us. There are a lot more birds and insects that need the trees, there are only five of us that need the fruit and nuts.

In amongst all this we have a small quarter acre lake. About 10 years ago it was stocked with several hundred mixed coarse fish (perch, tench, rudd I think). Mr and Mrs Heron and their friends the Otter family have had most of those now, but I would like to find a way to share the bounty of the lake with them and stock it with some more edible fish. That is one of my challenges to come.