Los Gatos Weekly-Times Photograph by George Sakkestad Gingerseed houses: strictly for the birds Christine Blakely of the Wild Bird Center of Los Gatos helps five-year-old Molly Macierz make a "gingerseed house" during a store workshop last week. These edible abodes consist of cut seedblocks glued together with peanut butter. Other ingredients include matzo roofs, sunflower seed shingles, ice-cream-cone chimneys and suet snow. Los Gatan Pat Lemke, who makes gingerbread houses for humans, came up with the idea of making them for birds and passed it on to the Wild Bird Center. Gingerseed house kits are also available. [ Back to Contents Page | Los Gatos Weekly-Times Home Page | Archives ] This article appeared in the Los Gatos Weekly-Times, December 16, 1998. ©1998 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.