My odd thinking about mulberry and eastern red cedar trees. The Chinese placed mulberry trees at around the edge of their ponds to create the greatest efficiency possible for their food and silk. The silk worms eat the leaves which in turn the worms produced the cocoons that contained the silk, and the mulberries dropped into the water and fed the carp they ate. I have tried to copy that somewhat, and the mulberries bring in birds that I photograph.
The eastern red cedar is growing in an area that I could hardly get anything to grow and in just the last 15 or 20 years they have become voluntary, I suspect from the warming of the weather. I used to see them only in southern Indiana.
