Animals | Maya Creek

Adventures in Homesteading

June 17, 2013 by Tao

My summer-long volunteer, Syndey, arrived last week. She's a Wisconsin native who has just finished an engineering degree in California. She'll mainly be focusing on the food situation, maintainin...

Black Rat Snake... under my covers

April 27, 2012 by Tao

I found this guy under some blankets on my bed while I was cleaning up the tipi this evening. For a few seconds I was terrified until I recognized that it wasn't something poisonous. It's one of the b...

Foraging for Breakfast

March 12, 2012 by Tao

After a long weekend of cleaning barns and making compost piles, I woke up with a craving for eggs. Luckily we introduced 4 Mallard ducks into Mom's pond a few years back. 4 ducks soon turned i...

Beavers

March 4, 2012 by Tao

We all took a walk back down to the Auxvasse creek that borders the property. The lowlands back there are filled with giant sycamores and a few giant oaks. We saw evidence of beavers going to work...

A Spotted Salamander

March 2, 2012 by Tao

This is the first I've seen a spotted salamander in the wild and it was literally on our doorstep. Based on the stuff I found the Missouri Dept. of Conservation's page on them it was probably out lo...