Plants and wildlife thrive in the author's southern Ontario natural pond, where mechanical systems and chemicals are strictly off-limits. Water, soil, plants and animals live together in a ...

One summer I swam in a stream pond in the second curve of an oxbow in Abbott Brook. The flow had chiseled into the bank, sweeping out a 20-foot bowl, then doubled back where the roots of a poplar ...

Most ponds are free-form, informal shapes that have either soft or hard plastic liners dug into the ground. But for this homemade pond ... or even front entry, this natural-looking fountain ...