Hey everyone. Welcome back. We are doing an episode today about

Soundscaping in the Garden, so creating an audible landscape. This is kind of a fun one. Just an off-the-cuff

Riff- style episode.

No, for me, I love cultivating the natural sounds in the garden.

There's certainly some things we'll talk about about getting some man-made sounds, but why would you not want to take advantage of nature if you can?

So one thing that's really been beautiful for me is making it more inviting to birds.

Getting a lot of birds in the garden,

I think if you listen to some of my YouTube videos,

in fact, you can hear the natural soundscape

of birds chirping away.

I've caught fledglings being born in the garden and so I know that my

soil food web, my ecosystem is coming back to life a little bit as opposed to what it was when I first

moved into this property.

So enticing birds to stay in the garden is actually pretty easy.

Bird Feeders is going to be one of your best options and a bird bath I think would be the close second if not tied for first because

giving your bird's water a dedicated spot for water is going to prevent them

from picking into a lot of your fruits, your tomatoes, etc.

So I would highly, highly recommend a bird bath in conjunction with a bird feeder.

You can also do nesting boxes or bird houses. It can entice them to move in and live where there's ample food and water. So it's a really good idea for you and they can also run through the garden and pick your garden clean of some of

those more annoying pests like the loopers, the caterpillars, all the many different types

of larval insects to start munching on your garden. You can also, as far as sound, make a splash with some water features.

Maybe if you're going to do a bird bath, maybe have it be a babbling brook style bird bath or a waterfall or a

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