Food - with a combination of seed, nut, fruit producing trees, berry producing shrubs, grasses and flowers

• is irrigated and is filled with many trees and bushes,
  
• we are slowly renovating the front yard to bring back more plants natural to the area.
• we believe in organic gardening and have followed the practice at this house since we moved there in 1988.
  
• we help wildlife in the area by setting up feeding stations, growing bushy plants and rescuing injured animals (pigeons and garter snakes etc.).

Space - create diverse levels of vegetation

• BIRDS: Robins, Finch, Redpols, Flicker, Hariy Woodpecker, Grackles, Nuthatches, Chickadees, and other song birds.
• ANIMALS: Garter Snakes, Skunks, Red Fox, Mule and Whitetail Deer, Pronghorn (winter only), Rabbits, Porcupine, Mice and Bats
• INSECTS and SPIDERS: many insects and spiders make there home in our backyard
• PLANTS: Apple, Crabapple, Mock Orange and Pear Trees -Spruce, Cedars and Junipers -Choke Cherry, Nanking Cherry, Currents and High Bush Cranberry - Cottoneaster, Weeping Birch, Birch, Elm and Lilac, Bush Roses and Machurian Kiwi - Prickley Pear Cactus, Pin Cusion Cactus, Blue Gamma Grass, Sweatgrass, Wild Onions, Chives and Hens and Chickens.