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How to Build a Backyard WILDLIFE POND

by Theresa

Available on Amazon:
  • LEARN TO BUILD A BACKYARD WILDLIFE POND
  • IN ONE WEEK
  • FOR LESS THAN $300
 
Observe wildlife you otherwise wouldn’t see:
watch frogs and dragonflies in your own backyard.

Provide the one essential habitat element that benefits all wildlife:
water.
 
In this easy to use, do-it-yourself booklet, you will learn how Theresa, with help from Bear, built a backyard wildlife pond during her one-week Spring vacation, for less than $300.

Color photos illustrate each step of the pond building instructions, including:
  • choosing a pond location
  • designing a pond that benefits the most wildlife
  • digging and leveling the pond
  • installing padding to protect the liner
  • buying and installing the liner
  • filling the pond with soil, rocks, and water
  • and adding rocks around the edges.
 
Although many sources exist about building traditional ponds, there is little information about building a low-maintenance, natural pond specifically intended to be beneficial to wildlife (with soil in the bottom and no pump). Theresa created this book to help others more easily build a wildlife pond that welcomes frogs, dragonflies, tadpoles, snails, bathing birds, and other creatures where you can observe them in your own yard.
 
A wildlife pond is cheaper to build and easier to maintain than other types of backyard ponds:
  • It doesn’t need an expensive pump.
  • Plants are grown directly in soil at the bottom of the pond, rather than in pots that need to be removed each Winter and repotted each Spring.
  • Instead of goldfish provided by humans, it is stocked by Nature with local wildlife.
  • Once it achieves a balanced state that mimics natural ponds, it needs very little input from humans.
 
In addition to the step-by-step pond building instructions, sections are included on:
  • types of pond plants, including edible arrowhead
  • natural pond maintenance
  • how to keep the pond unfrozen in Winter
  • how to patch a hole in the liner
  • wildlife seen at the pond.
 
We hope you join us in discovering the joys of having your own backyard wildlife pond!