Kids love animals and birds. They like to grow them as their pet. The only pet in our house is koi. So Antony and I thought we will buy at least a koi for each kid. They get to name them and grow them.

Have you been to the Portland Japanese Garden recently? If not, come and see some of the beautiful renovations that are taking place. To add color to this, The Japanese Garden is planning to bring some new koi into the pond. In the winter of 2008 The Japanese Garden lost some of the koi that were in the pond due to heavy snow and freezing temperatures. After this incident The Japanese Garden has taken some intuitive effort in bring some koi from Japan. So many people have donated so generously to make this come true.

Finally, we got all Koi Events in one place! Time is valuable for all of us. Here is a smart way to track Koi events.

In the past Antony and I have missed a lot of koi events, just because we didn’t get enough time to track it. From that time onwards we were thinking of an easy method of tracking koi events around the world. That is how Koi Calendar was born. Koi Calendar is a website were Koi clubs and koi organizations can advertise their koi events to the public for free. We hope Koi Clubs and Koi organizations will utilize Koi Calendar by adding their Koi events to KoiCalendar.com. To our knowledge, the best way to promote koi is by promoting koi shows. Following is a quick introduction video of Koi Calendar.

Living in Portland, Oregon and very close to The Japanese Garden we often get the opportunity to enjoy the divinity and peacefulness of the garden. We are frequent visitors to the garden, since Antony and I got married. During our early visits there were lots of Koi, belonging to The Japanese Garden. Koi helped to bring out the ethnic beauty of the Japanese culture. Because of the unexpected winter in 2008, The Japanese Garden lost its 90 percent of the koi. Now there are only few koi in the pond.

Do you know that The Nishikigoi Vereniging Nederland (The Dutch Nishikigoi Association) traditionally organizes “The Holland Koi Show” which is known as the biggest koi show in the world. Netherlands ( Holland ) neighboring countries are Belgium, Germany and United Kingodm. Since there are many koi hobbyists from these countries, the Holland Koi Show became the single most important koi exhibition in all Europe. The Dutch Koi show is known worldwide as the largest koi show regarding the size and the number of visitors.

From the land of Dutch, Koi TV® have some koi friends, Tiebo Jacobs  and Bram Rohaan who are the writers of the blog named “KoiQuestion” ( www.koiquest.com ). It is written in Dutch. They are pretty regular in writing their blogs.