The Aquaponics project.....

 
In the spring summer I got around to cutting up a perfectly good IBC ......

To make an aquaponics system for my small (10x10) hoophouse

Just a few cuts to put the top upside down into the bottom of the pallet (sounds complicated but not so much) Once it was set in the house .... We added some minnows to start ....

Next was the plumbing and gravel that the plants will be growing in .....

After a  few days to a week ... It took a few weeks for the water levels pH, ammonia, nitrite, and phosphate levels to equal out .... Once they all did it was and is still so worth the wait !

And the fish are growing well and will taste good with some fresh greens !

I am now working on a small "urban" set up for a very good friend to have in her apartment .... Fish and greens without going to the supermarket ..... That's PERMACULTURE !!!

MY START

 Where do I start .... I have for many years been able to see that something was wrong in this country and getting worse. Everything from the political way down to the "food" that we are consuming (the F.D.A. actually calls some if it "food"). Over a lot of years listening to the "news" and then the talking head type A.M. radio crowd, I was just fed up ! I went looking for something different, that's where I found this guy screaming into a handheld recorder in traffic on his daily commute. This man spoke a tune that struck a cord with me ..... "A better way to do this " is what Jack Spirko's podcast was all about  http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/ 

Listening to Jack over the years I was introduced to a thing called "Permaculture" .... I was listening... That is where I heard the name Geoff Lawton ..... And from there I was interested HOOKED .... With the help of a VERY DEAR PERSON, I was off to an online P.D.C. with the man himself.... 

I have taken his advice and started this site ...... Won't ya have a small tour of what this thing we call Permaculture can do for the world and all living in it !!! 

Old Ford Tractors-Do it right!

By Martin

1952 Ford 9N
Purchased from a good friend!
-Rest in Peace Leo

Martin promotes a self-sustainable lifestyle and encourages others to do the same through emergency preparedness instruction and most recently, permaculture design consulting.