Box turtles in our garden? Gardening WHILE purposely taking care of native turtles? Yup, and now we have turtles everywhere! Check-out our recent turtles, including a female laying eggs!
We have a soft-spot for the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapine carolina). They’re slow, and mind their own business.
Chapter descriptions
00:00 intro
01:41 Eastern Box Turtle laying eggs
02:47 Looking for a baby Eastern Box Turtle I saw minutes earlier!
04:52 Eastern Box Turtle in Alpine Strawberry patch!
05:18 A collage of Eastern Box Turtle at HEPPY™
06:00 Turtle-friendly fencing
07:44 Part 1, Eastern Box Turtle mating – if the lawn is a rockin’, don’t come a knockin’
14:24 Part 2, Eastern Box Turtle mating – this looks painful!
17:39 Part 3, Eastern Box Turtle mating – they’re at it again … an HOUR later!
20:20 The NEXT day – egg laying site
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About HEPPY™
in 2017 I started planting on a 2 acre abandoned property. We’re located only 10 miles south of the US Capitol but are surrounded by several hundred acres of forest and few homes. Our urban garden design, landscape architecture and permaculture techniques incorporate fruiting trees, fruiting shrubs, edible ground cover, edible flowers, and herbs and medicinal plants that will provide food for generations. It’s a long and slow ‘haul’ as we adapt, learn new things, and are (usually 😉 enjoying the process.
HEPPY™ and HEPPY Lifestyle™ is about Quality of Life (QOL). It’s a lifestyle YOU deserve, and YOU can do.
QOL is permaculture to grow and eat nutritious food. QOL is physical exercise and physical health. It’s mental health to include rest, meditation, enjoyment of nature, and working at what makes you passionate. It’s about being creative, artistic and INVENTIVE. And, HEPPY emphasizes financial health by creating passive income, being self-sustaining and finding best value! It’s a lifestyle that will work for YOU!
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2 Comments
wow, that turtle was small! i built s/he a new house (05:39). and s/he wasn't the only baby we came across. Big & small — we now have the the Eastern Box Turtle everywhere.
HEPPY™ works with the environment (except deer :/ ), and all natural, organic and our Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapine carolina) population is growing!
Dude!!!! This is so insane!!! I just sent pics to my family earlier today of some box turtles that I found on our property!