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Summary
Paul is with Nick in Spokane, WA where they're going to have a potluck.
Paul used to live on mount Spokane, so he knows a bit about the area, but yesterday they went to Manito park which Paul never knew existed. Nick says he grew up in the park.
The subject turns to earwigs. Paul when he was young used to ride his bike a lot, and had a small tent. He tells of how once he camped at a site, and millions of earwigs got on the tent in the night, due to it raining. Nick makes earwig traps from newspaper formed into a mini tent, and discussion turns to what to do with them once caught, from a permaculture point of view. Nick used diatomaceous earth. Apparently chickens don't like them.
The number of earwigs seems to vary: 8 years ago, there were more, then they got fewer but now they're back to the same as 8 years ago.
Paul says Sepp Holzer says the bugs will be controlled if the permaculture design is good. Paul thinks that something will eat the earwigs, and by encouraging whatever eats earwigs the problem will be controlled. Sepp Holzer for example puts food and habitat away from his root cellar to attract the rodents so they don't get in the cellar, but this also attracts the rodent predators to eat the rodents.
They move on to talking about lawns. Nick's lawn isn't that good and Paul thinks the soil needs improving and predictably thinks there should be hügelkulturs, and many more edible growies.
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