My Nursery Garden In Port Charlotte Florida

INVOCATIONS FOR THE VIOLET FLAME

2010-08-15T13:50:00.000-07:00

DECREE FOR AUGUST 2010
INVOCATIONS FOR THE VIOLET FLAME

Through the Beloved Presence of God, I AM, now blazing in my heart and the hearts of all Humanity, I invoke the Legions of Light throughout infinity who are associated with God's Violet Flame of Infinite Perfection.

Beloved Ones, blaze the full momentum of the Sacred Violet Fire in, through, and around every electron of precious Life energy I have ever misqualified in any time frame or dimension both known and unknown. Transmute these patterns of imperfection cause, core, effect, record, and memory into God's Harmony and Balance.

Beloved I AM, I invoke your Divine Intervention to blaze the Violet Flame through every thought, word, action, or feeling I have ever expressed that reflects anything less than my full Divine Potential.

Look into my life and see what yet remains to be balanced by me to any person, place, condition, or thing I may have wronged at any time, in any way, for any reason whatsoever.

Reach your great loving hands of Light into all of the good energy I have released throughout my Earthly sojourns, and draw forth a thousand times as much perfection as I have ever done wrong.

Fashion from this substance of perfection a Gift of Love, whatever is necessary to balance every debt I have created which still remains unpaid to any part of Life.

Beloved I AM, I ask you to forgive every person, place, condition, or thing which may have wronged me in any way, and balance all debts owed to me by Life everywhere.

I accept this God Victoriously accomplished through the Power of God, I AM. And so it is!

NOW, I INVOKE THE VIOLET FLAME WITH THE POWER AND MIGHT OF A THOUSAND SUNS!

I invoke the Goddess of Liberty, the Goddess of Divine Justice, the Goddess of Freedom, the Goddess of Victory, and the Silent Watchers, Mighty Guardians, and Cosmic Beings who are assisting Humanity at this time from Inner levels with the cocreation of the New Earth.

Blessed Ones, come now, and blaze forth the most powerful cleansing activity of the Violet Flame that Humanity and the Earth are capable of receiving during this Cosmic Moment.

I open the Stargate of my Heart, and I AM instantly the Open Door for the most powerful 5th-Dimensional frequencies of the Violet Flame of God's Infinite Perfection the Earth has ever experienced.

The Violet Flame pulsates through my Heart Flame and blazes in, through, and around all inharmonious actions, all lower human consciousness, and all obstructions of the Light that any person, place, condition, or thing has ever placed in the pathway of Life's perfection.

Through the Divine Power of God's Infinite Perfection the Violet Flame Transmutes this discordant energy cause, core, effect, record, and memory NOW and FOREVER.

The Silent Watchers over every country, state, city, town, village, and hamlet on the planet now reach out their great loving arms and raise up a limitless number of people in every location who are willing to participate in the faithful use of the Violet Flame of God's Infinite Perfection.

Each of these Lightworkers understands the full importance of this sacred gift of the Violet Flame that is being offered by our Father-Mother God to help free Humanity from all human distresses.

The conscious use of this mighty power from the Heart of God will cause to be established within every one of these places great foci of the Violet Flame, which will continually bathe every person in each vicinity.

Now, through the Clarion Call of the I AM Presences of ALL Humanity and the Legions of Light throughout infinity, the Violet Flame begins to expand and expand.

It merges with the Divinity in every person's Heart Flame and expands into a tremendous Starburst of Light. This influx of the Violet Flame increases to the intensity and power of a thousand Suns.

Beloved Legions of Light associated with the Violet Flame of God's Infinite Perfection...

1. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through the thoughts, words, actions, and feelings of every man, woman, and child evolving on Earth until every person individually acknowledges and accepts the Divinity within ALL Life, and every expression is a healing benediction.

2. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all incoming babies, the children, their parents, and guardians until ALL youth are raised up in energy, vibration, and consciousness to carry out the directives of their I AM Presence.

3. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all youth centers and activities; all schools, colleges and universities; all leaders, teachers, instructors, and professors in every line of endeavor until the Flames of God Illumination and Enlightenment are manifest and eternally sustained.

4. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all religious and spiritual teachings, so that Divine Love, Truth, Tolerance, and Universal Sisterhood and Brotherhood will quickly manifest.

5. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all doctors, nurses, healers, hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical conglomerates, and every institution associated with healing of any kind until Divine Mercy, Compassion, and Healing are tangible realities for every person.

6. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all banking and financial institutions, all economic systems, all money, and the people associated with monetary interactions of any kind until every person on Earth is openly demonstrating true integrity, honesty, generosity, fairness, abundance, and the God supply of all good things.

7. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all places of incarceration and all employed there, through every correctional institution and every judge, jury, and court of law until Divine Justice is manifest and eternally sustained.

8. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all space activities throughout the world until every nation unites in cooperative service, so that God's Will may be manifest with our sisters and brothers throughout the Universe.

9. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through the physical, etheric, mental, and emotional bodies of Humanity until all disease and human miscreation, its cause and core, is dissolved and transmuted into purity, vibrant health, and physical perfection.

10. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through the food and water industries and through all of the food and water used for human consumption until every particle of food and every molecule of water is filled with Light. Empower this Elemental substance to raise the vibratory action of Humanity's physical, etheric, mental, and emotional bodies until physical perfection becomes a sustained manifest reality for every Human Being.

11. Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns in, through, and around every remaining electron of precious Life energy until the Immaculate Concept of the New Earth is manifest, and all Life evolving here is out picturing the perfection of God's Infinite Physical Perfection and the patterns of perfection for the New Earth.

And so it is, Beloved I AM.

Additional Information: Walk the Earth as a Living Master

Source: http://eraofpeace.org

Cilantro - Coriander - Food and Medicine

2010-06-22T09:41:00.000-07:00

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It has come to my attention that cilantro is a definite must in todays toxic diet that we have all been fed by our greedy merchants from many sources. I would recommend to everybody that if they have the facilities to grow their own cilantro and use their own herbs. The common English name for Cilantro is Coriander. The plant and seeds are both used in cullenary preparations. It would be a very valuable addition to your garden and pantry. Its uses are many from growing, to caring for, and harvesting it is a joy to work with this plant. It won't let you down unless you totaly neglect it. If you live in a warm climate, it will reseed itself.

I have grown cilantro (corriander) in my garden many times and it is quite prolific if you let it go to seed it will produce abundant seeds. I might add that it makes a very beautiful plant in full bloom. One plant could produce thousands of seeds. It is a seed that is often used in pickling spice and has a wonderful flavor.

Cilantro is an herb that is commonly used in Thai, Vietnamese, and Mexican dishes. In addition to its culinary benefits, it has recently been discovered to be a powerful chelating agent. Yoshiaki Omura, MD, director of medical research at the heart Disease Foundation and president of the International College of Acupuncture in New York, reported that after finding he had been heavily exposed to mercury, he accidently discovered that when cilantro is taken in a slightly cooked form it causes a massive secretion of mercury in the urine.

Dietrick Klinghardt, MD, Ph.D also recommends cilantro as the best means to remove mercury from the brain. His clinical research has found that 5 grams (teaspoonful) a day is the minimum dose. Cilantro can easily be prepared by finely chopping one heaping teaspoonful of fresh cilantro and placing it in either chicken soup or boiled water and allowed to steep for twenty minutes. One can sip the tea through out the day.

I understand that there is a hate group that is publishing their hate for cilantro. I beg of you to reconsider the usefulness of cilantro in the use of medicine as outlined in this very short article. I drink cilantro as a tea and I also use it in soups and I like the flavour of it. I love the fact that it is an extremely useful plant and so very easy to grow. I consider it to be of great value, to me. I have had it in my garden and it’s really a beautiful showy plant when it blooms and grows to seed it produces thousands of seeds per a single plant. All you need is one prolific plant and you will have all the seeds you will need for your next years garden.

The following is copied from article at: http://www.ehow.com/how_5614201_benefit-cilantro-herbal-home-remedies.html#ixzz0ryBypqYA

Step 1 Treat poisoning with cilantro herbal remedies. Cilantro is used in therapy (chelation therapy). Chelation therapy has been used by conventional medicine to pull lead from patients suffering from lead poisoning. The therapy is administered intravenously using the chemical agent EDTA to remove metal from the blood stream.

Step 2 Prevent infection with dried cilantro. Cilantro contains substances that kill some bacteria and fungi, hence preventing infections from developing wounds. This is done by sprinkling dried cilantro on minor cuts and scrapes after thoroughly washing the injured area with soap and water.

Step 3 Improve indigestion with this herb. Cilantro is known to heal stomach discomforts, form from indigestion, to flatulence ans diarrhea. It is also an appetite stimulant and aids in the secretion of gastric juices. It can be taken together with tea whenever the discomforts strike.

Step 4 Control Blood sugar. Cilantro seeds have been known to control blood sugar, lower cholesterol levels and to relieve diabetes. Traditionally, it was used to treat fevers, chills, and vomiting. The leaves and roots are boiled and drunk to as tea.

Step 5 Use cilantro remedies for inflammatory conditions. Studies suggest that cilantro has anti-inflammatory effects. It is therefore used to relieve pain caused by inflammation such as arthritis. One cup of cilantro tea can be taken if such pain occurs. It can also be rubbed on painful joints.

Read more: How to Benefit from Cilantro Herbal Home Remedies | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5614201_benefit-cilantro-herbal-home-remedies.html#ixzz0ryBypqYA

Orion and Aquaponic Gardening

2009-10-12T18:40:00.000-07:00

December 31.2009 -

Hello: The pineal gland is a fantastic gift to mankind. Little has been taught to us about this marvellous part of our body. It has been withheld by the religious controllers. With it you have dreams and when awake it is instrumental in having thoughts and ideas and allows you to visualize things. What is actually happening is that you’re communicating with the God Mind of the Universe. From the destruction of Atlantis to this present time this knowledge has been kept from us and we have been ruled by a pluralistic form of government for the purpose of developing mankind to his/her divine human potential. I am glad to announce that this worlds form of government is near death with no hope of revival because its time has come and its purpose is no longer needed. You are now able to communicate directly to God at any time of day or night and God will answer directly in dreams and thoughts and ideas. Start listening to your dreams and ideas and thoughts. That is your Creator talking to you.

Learn to live your whole life as though it is a garden and you know that a garden needs constant attention and care. Since we have entered the Golden age you will soon have the ability to do what you would like to do as long as you can keep that love and giving nature and nurture it. Get ready for the reactivating of your 10 additional strands of DNA. When this happens, that is when your body and mind will really connect and we shall no longer be prisoners of this planet. We shall be free to travel the Universe. That’s going to take some doing and knowledge. Get ready to learn some new things, not just some, a lot.

That brings me back to my aquaponics gardening. I am looking forward to the changes that will be required and hope that I will be up to the task of attending to them. My goldfish are growing and soon going to have to have more room, a larger tank to live in. I have been searching for an adequate tank but haven’t found one yet. Soon I will be forced to give some of them away if I can’t acquire a larger aquarium. It is winter time here in South West Florida the weather has been very nice and my garden needs attention. There are lots of things going on. I have croton cuttings to care for, desert rose seedlings that need attention. There in need of replanting to larger pots. Some of my crotons are in need of larger pots along with a few other plants.

I am thinking of specializing in three plants. The desert rose, croton and plumeria. That’s about all that I have room for at this time. I’m not sure that I will have enough room for the plumeria. They are trees and require much more room to grow.

December 25, 2009: Merry Christmas to all. What a wonderful time to be living.

We are at the edge of a cliff and ready to jump into a new world; and it will be a world of wonders and amazement far beyond most to comprehend.

To bring you up to speed with his most current discussion, listen to Dr. Steven Greer at the http://www.worldpuja.org/home.php. Sign up for free and go to “Broadcasts” and sign in and go to “Archives” and select “Dr. Steven Greer” and you will be able to select many different 1 hour presentations by Dr. Greer.

One of the things most families should begin to concentrate on is home food growing, or gardening if you will. Of course my forte is “Aquaponic Gardening”. Of course the big thing as in all other aspects of life is the cost of any enterprise is paying for the oil and gas which comprise 90 percent of the cost of getting food to your table. We are at the edge of the end to having to pay for this cost and the “World Elite” can sit in their prison cells and contemplate. Give them time to grow their own sturdy tree from which they can be hung for the crimes and murders of much of humanity.

This web-site furnishes links that you can use to bring you up to date on what is really going on in the world. It’s exciting, breath taking, exhilarating, etc. We are at a point that it is going to happen, like it or not, so why not be ready for it; and believe me it will take some getting ready.

What on earth does Orion have to do with gardening? Well Project Orion will have a lot to do with aquaponic gardening. It takes energy to operate an aquaponic gardening system or a regular gardening system. What if that energy were free as our creator intended?

The following is quoted from the Orion Project Web Site:

“The Orion Project is a not-for-profit corporation created to transform the current energy, environmental and social crisis into a world of sustainability and enlightened abundance.

Technological progress in the areas of advanced physics and electromagnetic systems, if appropriately supported, will enable humanity to live on the Earth with a minimal footprint with genuine long-term sustainability.

For over 100 years, these advanced concepts in energy generation have either been ignored or actively suppressed due to the power of fossil-fuel based economic and industrial interests.” End of quote.

On the left column of this blog you will find a link to the Orion Project Web Site. I hope you will read it and become interested in the free energy technology.

It is my dream to build an aquaponics system that is run entirely on free energy and if I can live a few more years maybe I will be able to accomplish just that. I would love to live long enough to see the world transformed by aquaponics family gardens run on free energy. This is the route that the New World Order gang of thugs should have taken instead of sequestering information and killing inventors that were really on to designing free energy devises. Ever since 1902 these special interests that were more interested in exploiting the nature and the world of its natural resources for their own benefit and not the benefit of the world.

When you seriously consider the current way that we all live, you will soon begin to realize that the whole system is upside down. It is very badly in need of being turned right side up. The money system for one thing is wrong, it is a debt system, and designed to keep us enslaved. Why should 80% of the entire worlds population live in poperty? It is the slave system left over from ancient times. That must be done away with and can be by the use of free energy and a very productive world wide food growing systems. A system of giving to Mother Nature will cause Mother Nature to yield abundantly. This should be done on a world wide basis. The exploiters must be dealt with most severely. They must be taught the ways of giving and if they refuse to learn, then they must be removed, permanently.

Due to the world wide collapse of the New World Order gang, that will clear the way for the development of a new society, developed the right way. We all know what don’t work. If we continue on our greedy exploiting ways, then we will self destruct. Now let’s get busy and build a new more beautiful society and world, one that will work and prepare us for the universe, because that is our destiny. Once we become a peaceful and progressive society, then we will go to the stars and educate the universe in the right way to live.

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Free Energy and Aquaponic Gardening

2009-10-04T06:27:00.000-07:00

Can you imagine the rest of the world is going ahead and beginning to implement the new free energy technology. The Israelis are preparing to set up a free-energy desalination plant on Mt. Sinai in order to start turning the deserts green. The Arabs are doing the same thing starting in Mecca. The Australians are also doing it. The Genie is out of the bottle. Mr. Obama and congress why isn’t the US leading the way? You guys along with your previous members should hang your heads in shame. You all have suppressed these systems of free energy for more than a hundred years. Exercise your leadership or please get out of the way; because you have all become a real nuisance.

Personally I am looking for that free energy to run my home and my truck. While the US is playing catch up, with the voting returning to an honest system, I wish all of you politicians an early good-by. Don’t let the door hit you in the a-- on your way out of office. On your exit I wish all you new statesmen a hardy welcome.

With that out of the way, now is also the time to consider the food levels and distribution in the world. You know that I am all for aquaponic gardening for every family and there are many reasons for this. This can be our own health care system and ensuring that we are raising the best organic foods in the world. Don’t wrinkle your nose at the idea until you study the make up of aquaponic gardening. It is not difficult and time consuming. On the left side column there are links to aquaponic gardening that you can use to educate yourself in setting up and operating a system like the home aquaponic garden.

Even though aquaponic gardening has been around for thousands of years, it is in a new paradigm where they have been scientifically developed for the purpose of being healthy and useful. With free energy being supplied to all consumers, there is no reason for a family not to have their own fresh food garden. Think of what it can also do for the community. These gardens can produce an abundance of food over the present commercial farming systems that produce poisoned second rate food stuff. This will be our country’s first line of defence in a national health care system instead of becoming ill from the consumption of poisoned products. There are so many ways that we are being poisoned that I can’t name them all and it has been due to government/corporate greed. That too is going by the way.

Aquaponcis Freedom Garden #2

2009-09-18T07:56:00.000-07:00

Why is small gardening so important?

It’s because of the gigantic farm corporations operating in such places like Mexico under the directions of the UN and NAFTA.

Number one, why are our families concentrated in the cities? Is it for their health? I don’t think so. Our families are concentrated in large cities because of the need of cheap labour wanted by the giant factories and manufacturing businesses. This has created the terrible problems that we face today in the over crowding of our large cities. Read about the problems created by the UN and NAFTA at http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6408 . You will discover the source of the present day swine flu pandemic, the reasons and problems behind it. If that don’t make you sick at heart I don’t know what would.

We need to jerk the food production away from the big business and put it into the hands of the family units. Being raised on a small farm in Michigan in the 1930’s and 1940’s I know what the benefits are to being in a family that lived on their garden production. Then along came big business and took us off of our farms and herded us into the festering cities. That needs to stop and be reversed.

Aquaponics Family Gardening is the way to go. Community distribution of locally grown food would naturally develop as more and more families developed their own gardens. Mrs. Obama is leading the way with showing people how to garden. I hope she will soon become interested in the aquaponics systems and set up a national example for all families to see how important it is for families to be involved personally in their own food production. I have this to say about you people that have made and perpetuated this joke about Mrs. Obama in her garden. I hope you starve to death in sight of a beautiful garden full of good fresh food.

I have written many articles about aquaponics gardening and they are here for you to read and study. The more I study the aquaponics systems the more I am sold on this Idea of an aquaponics garden for every family. This need has never been more urgent than it is today. The scientific studies and the scientific development of products will make this an easily developed system for everybody that wants one. You can actually build an aquaponics system with grow tables, and fish tanks. I am in the process of growing my own aquaponics system. I am starting with just a 20 gallon fish tank with 10 goldfish and 2 cleaner fish. I am starting with goldfish because they are the most hardy and most easy to work with and by the time the reach adolescence I hope to be ready with a hundred gallon tank to put them in.

I have written many articles about aquaponics gardening and I would like to finish this article with some thoughts:

Our current monoculture system of farming is absolutely backward to nature. It is proven that monoculture of plants and animals are disease prone and require applications of fertilizers, chemicals, and poisons to bring the food production to harvest. Right from the start it is bad for the people and animals.

Now comes the family. The family is a perfect unit for agriculture because it will supply the detail work required for care and monitoring the gardens.

With a well cared for aquaponics garden it is not a great requirement to maintain a well developed garden. For a family of 4, it will only require about 15 minutes a day to watch over your aquaponics system.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

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Aquaponics Freedom Garden

2009-09-12T12:14:00.000-07:00

What if there was a way to increase the world wide yield of many fresh farm products, fresh fruits and vegetables in one tenth the area and 70 percent less water. Just consider for a while those statistics. As you muse over these figures let me go on.

When I was a child, 70 years ago I lived on a small farm in South Western Michigan. It was an area where they raised a lot of fruit from trees, bushes, and small plants. Of course the production and harvest followed seasonal cycles. At that time each family was primarily independent of today’s super-markets. At that time families functioned as independent units and there was a term used, which was, “Put food by in season.”. However along came marketing and large super markets and has changed all of that.

With today’s technology there is a way to break away from the stranglehold that our nations and farm industries of the world have on the people. Without that flow of food there would be rioting and pillaging in the streets immediately. Over the last very few years there is a new technology called aquaponics. It’s so new that the word processors don’t have the correct spelling of it. Basically it is raising fish and plants by circulation of the water from the fish tanks to the plant grow beds. The advantages of this system are very numerous. I will try to highlight a few of them.

1. The area required to grow the same amount of food is one tenth compared to the current conventional method of gardening.

2. The food products are completely organic. Fertilizer is not used.

3. The amount of water required is 70 percent less than the conventional method to produce the same amount of food.

4. The plants and produce grow twice as fast.

5. Planting to harvest takes only 50 percent of the time of the conventional produce.

6. Once an aquaponics system is set up, it will only take 10 to fifteen minutes a day to monitor. Even the elderly and handicapped can handle this part of it. You might consider this a negative in that the aquaponics system needs daily monitoring. I don’t, it will help teach family members responsibilities.

7. With this being a family operated home food production of fresh organic foods, the whole families health would improve. Can you imagine a whole nation living an absolutely healthy abundant life. The objective of each family being that their aquaponics system be the best in the neighbourhood. I can envision where each neighbourhood will have a weekly trading market centre where each family could go to trade their specialties whatever that might be from food products to crafts and so forth. If presented properly this could do a lot to bring our families together in strong united formations making up a fantastically strong nation.

8. No weeding required. This is one of the big work requirements in conventional gardening.

This aquaponics system is catching on in Australia and some other areas of the world, and is finally beginning to be noticed in the United States. This system can truly be the vehicle for freedom and independence of the the entire world. When this great nation was founded, everybody had a garden and a trust in God, we need to get back to it.

During the Second World War we all had Victory Gardens. I would like us all to see Freedom added to Aquaponics and all have a Freedom Aquaponics Garden. In converting to a system such as this, we have need of getting rid of the corruption in our big-corporations. They are designed to rape the people, not to give to them. We need a few neighbourhood examples to show how this could work, once started the people will love it and there will be no stopping it from sweeping the world.

On Being Independent Of Government Health Care

2009-08-29T02:21:00.000-07:00

Good Morning: When I go to meet my maker, I hope it can be from my garden. It is there that I feel closer to him. It is also there that I can calm myself and feel better. Sometimes when it gets hot, and here in South West Florida, summer time is hot with middle 90‘s starting early in the day; I need to take a break, but always feel refreshed afterward.

It is at these times that I think about what is going on in our government and how they have stolen our very living from us. For this reason I am going to help you find a way to survive in good health without breaking your bank account. For just pennies a day you can have your health returned without the expensive medicines and supplements. I have a book for you that is free for the clicking that can begin your journey back to good health. The information in this book will absolutely amaze you. This information has been around for years but has been sequestered by the FDA and AMA and other special interest groups. It is slowly making its way into the mainstream and will get there. Truth is very powerful and as Glenn Beck says, “The truth will set you free.” He’s quoting from the Bible, this same statement is found there. He did not quote the prefix which reads in whole: “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge and the truth shall set you free.” I urge you to click on this link http://www.ozon.com.tr/images/fast.pdf . It’s a long 124 page report and may be taken off of the internet. I urge you to store it on your computer.

Here is an ancient remedy for today's ailments and people that are morbidly ill.
http://www.healthfreedom.info/taheebo,%20pau%20d%27arco.htm This will surprise you and when you read about it, it will make you madder than blitzen when you realize how this information has been kept from you. They want you to be sick and in need of their witch doctor care. You may also be interested in the following link. You will find helpful information for maintaining your good health. http://www.essiacus.com/ Take back our government by taking back your own health care. Do not depend on politicians or doctors. Actually I liked Benjamin Franklins philosophy which was something like this: To keep healthy, wealthy, and wise, keep away from doctors, lawyers, and ministers. They all want to get their hands in your pockets. Too bad that Benjamin Franklin was a politician, and somewhat of a scoundrel. But that’s what made him who he was. I classify him somewhere with King David. He was a scoundrel also, but he was beloved and favoured by God.

Now with all the money that you will save, you might think of building your own aquaponics system. In a very small area you can easily raise organic fish and plants for your own consumption. If you can accomplish that, you will also save money on your grocery bill by having your own fresh groceries in your aquaponics garden. A great deal of information about aquaponics can be found in the links to the left, look under excellence in aquaponics.

I have started mine with a 20 gallon aquarium with 8 goldfish. Later I will be continuing to build my aquaponics system. I will be able by then to supply my own larger goldfish and aquatic plants for a much larger aquarium. Now what I need to do is locate a hundred gallon tank, some grow tables and plumbing supplies. I will probably put up a temporary tent to house the system. I’ll do that when I need to in its time.

When you think good health, think organic gardening with aquaponics.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

‘Question authority. There are no experts‘. Wilhelm Reich

2009-08-28T04:40:00.000-07:00

Why should one question authority. When do you know you have all the facts? If you are honest with yourself you know that you just never know the answer to that question. If you think you have all the facts, then you should be able to draw correct conclusions from the subject. However, just one missing fact could totally destroy or alter your conclusions and ready it for the trash bin. This often times is discouraging but of necessity if you are to continue investigating, then your conclusions should improve.

Years ago I worked for an individual that was doing a statistical analysis. The subject doesn’t matter. I started with several hundred records of facts that were included in the first analysis. We went through the detail and began to exclude certain records of facts. In the final analysis he came up with the results that he wanted for his argument. Believe it, this is done in industry all the time. I hear statements made about products that just wrinkle my skin. One of the very worst is, “Most Doctors agree that….” . In my book that is the most deceptive form of advertising and I find it very disgusting. Then you will find that if they try to hone in on a specific target, they will glean non objectionable facts from their source to make their analysis look the way they want it to look. From this you can be assured that statistics don’t lie, but satiations do. Only if in the final analysis if the report doesn’t look favourable they just won’t use it. Be careful of statistics and don’t believe most of them because you probably will not be presented with all the facts to back up the conclusions. Sure they have conclusive proof after they threw out what they didn’t want to include.

Now when it comes to gardening, I most certainly am not an authority. I am aware of certain things like local weather, local plants, and some exotic plants. I work with plants but do not perform any scientific work on them. I just do personal experiments with them. I use what works for me. I do things in a certain way, some are orthodox and some are not; and sometimes with surprising results. In starting new plants, I have used several methods. Starting from seed, starting from cuttings of various types, layering. Each method has its own peculiar procedure for accomplishing your desired results. Sometimes I even discover procedures accidentally; which are performed by nature and try to duplicate the process. One plant the kalanchoe I found propagated itself from tiny root bulbs that develop from the parent. This I found as a very easy process to use. It requires an additional year which many don’t want to wait. However I have chosen that way to go with the kalanchoe rather than the leaf or stem cuttings. Overall it will be much less time consuming and less work and more plants. I have many kalanchoes in my garden and when they flower they really put on a show of colour.

Thank you for reading my blog: Brad Vigansky

Gardening Now And Tomorrow

2009-08-26T22:58:00.000-07:00

Gardening, whether it be a small home garden, truck garden or large commercial garden; it is a wonderful opportunity to commune with nature and your Creator. Your personal garden can be just a stepping stone into wonders that you never dreamed of. Where does your garden go from here? Depending on your personal interests, goals, and ambition, once started there will be no turning back. You won’t want to. You will have doors opened continuously that will take you further into the awesome plan and beauty of the world around you. Just keep your eyes, ears, nose and tongue tuned in and enjoy what you will find and discover.

Your garden should be and will be something you will be able to really enjoy and plan your future developments. Like a beaver in running water, builds a dam and around him will develop an aquatic paradise for his use and enjoyment and good healthy living. His work results will surround him with all of his needs. That is what your garden can do for you. Just start it one plant at a time, but keep the total picture in mind to give you direction for a lifetime. Once introduced to the biology of plant life and understand the symbiotic relationship between plants and biology of animals, you will stand in awe at the beauty of Creation. If you like experimenting, you could learn to love gardening. It is full of needed experimenting in all areas of life forms. Following your interests will take you down many paths in which the learning seems endless.

Can you learn how to splice a gene? Say you would like to change the colour of the flower to yellow. That could be done by splicing the yellow colour gene (if you could find it) into a host plant. I would love to see a yellow Desert Rose. If I could develop one, I could make a fortune from it. I have seen white, blue, pink, and red but never yellow. Do you think there is room for a yellow Desert Rose? What about a pink Marigold? On and on this could go. As people we have barely scratched the surface. The whole future is waiting for us, we just need to grab onto it and make it work in a family environment. I think it’s time for the idea of the cities to rethink their value and return to the family environment and it’s Spiritual and Physical needs. Some people like cities and that’s ok, but you still need what a family environment can produce and that is, stability, loyalty, healthy organic food, which is at very best controlled by what a family unit can furnish and that is the production of community organic foodstuffs and replace national and world wide monoculture . This idea of monoculture is totally out of step with nature and desperately needs to be replaced. This can be done with aquaponics. Aquaponics will tie it all together. Here is an idea for someone; “I wonder if frogs could be raised in an aquaponics system?” That could be a very interesting project. What about the other aquatic life forms, and there are lots of them. Shrimp, crabs, etc.

What about the functions of an aquaponics home life environment. How will this affect the daily living of the family? What affect will this have on community living? If planned for properly it could become an absolutely beautiful way of life. As time goes on and more and more people around the world begin to shift to aquaponics systems, we will have need for more people to write about and contribute to the data base of the total aquaponics home life. This is bound to have a tremendous impact on and in the whole world.

Thank you for reading my blog: Brad Vigansky

Grow Your Own Organic Food Using Aquaponics

2009-08-26T02:14:00.000-07:00

If you are in need of a “Disease Care System” like President Obama is discussing and designing or what we have in medicare you are at a point where you are in need of taking care of the basics of your health. The place to start is at the cellular level. At this time in our world of scientific development you should even consider growing your own poison free organic food. Don’t be overwhelmed by the idea, it is possible and with the development of aquaponics science has taken the hard work out of it and designed systems in such a way that the elderly and infirm can even take control and raise their own food composed of plants and fish. I can foresee the time when all new homes will be built with and have the room for at least a basic aquaponic system. They will eventually become a necessary part of life. No matter how you slice it, the family, whether 1 or 30 is the basic building block of nations. It all starts in the family. Strong healthy families will build strong healthy nations.

I have started developing my own aquaponics system, but haven’t completed it. I am at the point where I have a 20 gallon (hydroponic) fish tank with 8 goldfish. I plan on adding a cleaner fish later. The reason that I am using goldfish is that they are hardy and will hopefully survive any mistakes that I make. Also, here in Port Charlotte, Florida, I won’t need a heater. I also have a small nursery garden that I will be using the fish water, about 5 gallons a week for fertilizing my nursery plants that are in my garden. As the fish grow in size, I will eventually transfer them to a hundred gallon aquarium which will service 2 plant grow beds and will transfer the larger goldfish into the hundred gallon tank. By then I will be fully operational with my aquaponics system; at this point, I might consider growing tilapia. They are a very good eating fish, and do well in this climate; but I’ll need a heater for the winter months. Probably 2 or 3 months a year.

This aquaponic system should produce enough organic fruits and vegetables for my personal use, and if I have any excess, I will give it to my neighbours. There are some statistics and things that you should become aware of in regard to producing organic food in this manner.

You can grow up to 10 times more plants in half the time with healthier plants. Your water circulating system and fish do almost all the work.
Your food will be organic. Organic food produces better health. You know that your food is fresh and it will taste much better.
You will not need fertilizer, all you will need is fish food.
Your water requirements will be 70 to 80 percent less than the conventional method of raising food produce. As your water evaporates, you just replace it by adding more water. Do not add chlorinated water, it will kill your fish and probably some if not all of your plants.
Your only time requirement on a daily basis is less than 15 minutes of checking to make sure everything is functioning properly.
Reduction in refrigeration of fresh food stuff, keep it in the grow beds until you are ready to use it and eat it. Harvest only what you need at the time. No need to harvest a weeks supply at a time. Of course this may require rethinking on how and when to plant many crops.
Your system should not be left unattended, that is the only draw back if you are a person that is away from home a lot. If you are gone, you will definitely need a very responsible person to take care of your aquaponic system while you are gone. If this is a family operation, then there must be a person in charge to insure that things are running properly. You have plants and animals that need daily attention and inspection. The health of your aquaponics system depends up on it. This operation will eventually become the most important thing in your life. Your very good health will depend upon it. The health of your whole family will depend upon it.
To sum it up, your cost for this operation would be a lot less than buying your fruits and vegetables at the grocery stores. Think of the time savings at the grocery store, instead you just go to your grow beds and select what you want to use at the time of the meal. Time savings could be considerable. I don’t have any statistics, but I’m sure the family food bill would go down with the quality going up. This is a huge plus.
A very important point. In order to remain disease and pathogen free it is necessary to feed your fish proper food. Do not allow any animal manure as used in some third world countries to be a part of your fish food. Many of these ancient cultures did not practice this due primarily to ignorance. This could possibly be the cause of worldwide pandemics of many of the horrible diseases that have ravaged the world many times over. Keep this clearly in mind if you want to be able to certify your produce and sell organic food. Here in Florida, you won’t even get a license to sell your products and would be shut down if you did. It is vital to the health of the whole world to do this right. If this catches on in the USA, we wouldn’t have to import any food at all.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

The Little Red Hen

2009-08-24T04:51:00.000-07:00

Good Morning: Have you wondered where the family loyalty has gone? Could it be that these little moral stories are no longer being taught in the schools. One that I seem to remember so well is: "A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands, so comes poverty." What is this little proverb trying to teach? My garden constantly reminds me of this. I have to be alert and awake to keep the weeds out of my garden, or what I’ll have is a garden full of weeds. It’s a life lesson that can be extended into all aspects of life. You must stay healthy and alert and work at the important things.

Another one you may remember is the story of the little red hen in the barnyard? Nobody would help her in her chores of finding seed, planting and growing the grain, harvesting and grinding the grain and finally baking the bread. She did all this by her self. When she baked the bread, she refused to share it with all the other animals which had refused to help her. This is an extremely valuable story to be taught to our children. Examine and learn the moral lessons that this little story teaches. They can carry you through a lifetime of living a good life.

This little family had a very loyal and active working member; the little red hen. By her actions she was teaching her family the value of work and contributing to the family. Any member that refused to help was not awarded with the fruit of her work. It’s just that simple. These principles when applied nation wide will add to developing very strong loyal citizens and country.

I have a feeling that this little story is no longer being taught in our government school curriculum because they would probably consider it of no value in tearing down our country, instead of building it up. Citizens need to wake up and take control of the real development of our country by instilling loyalty and building strong loyal family units. When I was a small child back in the 1930‘s there were ruminants of this pioneer culture, but it is sadly missing today. If you would like to see that returned we need to turn back to the basics.

This communist idea of redistribution of wealth was tried by our pioneer parents back in the 1600’s. When Jamestown was established they had a communal system but within a very short time they found that this system was not going to work. Even then they had their share of sluggards. It was changed when they saw the results of their labour being distributed to the lazy and non contributing individuals. They soon put the communal idea away and went on to develop a strong group of colonies. Everybody being awarded according to their work and production. If that is taken away, it will be the final blow that will kill this country.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Working With Plants

2009-08-22T02:05:00.000-07:00

Good Morning: When working with my plants I have to consider methods in reproduction for increasing my supply of plants. If I clone them, I know that I will get exact copies of the parent plant. Reproducing plants by this method doesn’t get much more interesting than that. By using this method exclusively, I will be extremely limited in the number and variety of plants that I have unless I go outside of my little collection and purchase some new varieties; which is ok. Then you have the cloning process of invetro cell reproduction which leads to new plants which are exact replicas of the parent plant. Thus it is a cloning process. This is ok if you want massive amounts of plants or do it just as a hobby. If you would like more detailed information see this web-site. Plant Tissue Culture Kit

If I go to the sexual method of reproducing plants that is a whole new topic for discussion. At what point does one start with this method? Usually one just purchases seeds and try to grow new plants from seeds. That can be good or bad depending on your desired results. For certain results you may have to go clear back to the genetics of plant life and work with it. Usually it will grow out from observation of your plant results from seed that you purchase. Which carried further will go into cross pollination then observing the results from the production from your own seeds. This is a very time consuming process and requires very good record keeping and marking each plant. For the most part, I will leave that to the plant breeders; but it can be done. I am working with one plant called the Desert Rose and so far I have 4 varieties of the Desert Rose that are producing seeds. I have one plant that has over 2 dozen seed pods. The plant is so loaded that I have had to prop up some of the branches. If they are full of seeds, I may have to sell some or give some away. I just am not equipped at this time to handle hundreds of seedlings. They are all outside in my garden and will be open air pollinated, with a little bit of help from me. So far I had one pod open and I got 8 seeds from it. I have no idea how many seeds that I will get and still have no idea how viable they will be. That all takes a lot of time; however I find it interesting.

It is interesting to relate the study of genetics and the study of life and the theory of Evolution. It really makes me laugh, what they are trying to do is take God out of the equation of the origin of life. Do you know who they are going to find when they finally arrive at their conclusion? It is well established that life comes from pre-existing life. Of course their conclusion will be God. What they describe as Evolution really boils down to genetics. In his great wisdom God created the genetics of all life. That’s why there is such a great diversity. It’s all imbedded in the genes. That’s why sex was created, it was for the purpose of mixing the genetics of plants and animals. Howl you Theorists, just disprove it. It still takes a male and a female to mix the genes, unless you do some splicing, which is possible but quite unnatural. When it comes to symbiotic relationships, which came first the plants or the animals?

To the Theorists they think I’m just part of the dumb sheeple. Well just bark away, I have one over on you.

I’m going to spend some time in my garden and enjoy the day and work on the weeds a little bit; pesky things.

Between two neighbours I’m going to finally get a Mango tree established. One lady gave me 2 seedlings and they are both in pots and doing really great. The other lady has a mango tree that I plan on getting graft/cuttings and graft from that tree to my seedlings. Once you get them growing, they develop very fast here in the tropical area of Florida. I must say that the Mango is probably my favourite fruit. They are so juicy that you almost need to eat them in a bathtub. They are much better than the peach because they don’t have all that fuzz and they are much bigger. They don’t taste anything like a peach however, they have a unique flavour.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

My Morning Walk And Then Some

2009-08-21T06:12:00.000-07:00

Good Morning: I got up this morning and walked Wolf the family dog on his early morning walk and followed my youngest grand-sons as they went to catch their bus for High School. After the kids got on the bus Wolf and I headed back for home. As usual I turned him loose and he trotted ahead of me, but kept looking back just to see if I was tagging along. He isn’t dumb, he took a short cut and didn’t go the path that I expected. He had his chores done and was ready to get back to Rosie, his master; that‘s the boys Mother and my youngest daughter.

When I got home I began working on the plants in my aquarium. I put stones in tiny pots and filled the pots with plants and stoned them in so that they would stay put in the corners of the aquarium. While I was finishing up, I heard on the news that President Obama is appealing to the Church leaders to appeal to the people to get behind the health bill. Now is that ever a switch. What’s going to happen to all this hate talk about the churches? There is a word for it; it’s hypocritical. Or you could say, “You call it hypocrisy!”. How the tune has changed.

I have a question; ‘What’s missing?’. I’m going to tell you; “It is true repentance is totally lacking”. I haven’t seen any bent knees in supplication before their Almighty Creators Throne. If we are to return to a true Republic, with democratic representation, which is totally lacking today, this will be required by the people and the leaders, to approach God in a true repentant attitude. Then maybe, just maybe God might listen and answer our prayers.

We The People must throw off the Illegal IRS, Illegal Federal Reserve, remove the shackles that the IRS has used to muzzle the people and the Church Leaders. Until this happens, then nothing, but nothing will go in favour of the people. We need to fire everybody in our government and start over with God as our leader. Those that don’t like it are free to leave. Like it or not, we are a Christian Nation, at least for a while. I sincerely hope that when the next voting session for the nation comes up that our government employees will be out of a job, replaced by true Christian Statesmen. Like it or leave.

If this would happen, get ready for the blessings of God. We have a job to do, let’s get with it and throw the renegades out, legally. I’m tired of seeing people following the illegal examples set by our governments political leadership totally set up for their self gratification.

In the mean time, let’s learn about aquaponics and get the vision of really returning the health and wealth to our people by producing very good organic food which will go a long way in returning good health to the people. There are links on the left that are there for your use. Use the information wisely and not only learn how to fish, but how to raise fish and plants for food together.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Aquaponics

2009-08-20T15:28:00.000-07:00

Click on picture and learn all about it.

Aquaponics is here to stay and the timing could not be more important that it is right now. As long as there are people on the earth the demand for food is getting evermore important; especially good organic food. If you raise your own aquaponic organic food, you won’t have to worry about your personal supply of fresh food. As the world heads more and more into turmoil, it is very important that you consider combining raising fish and plants in a single connected operation. Getting set up is the most important thing. I am going at it little by little. Monday I plan on introducing goldfish into my aquarium. I chose goldfish because:

They are most hardy and considered cold water fish.
I don’t need a water heater.
They are easy to care for and raise.
They are inexpensive. I’m going to start with 8 goldfish at a total cost of $1.04.
I plan on using about 5 gallons of fish tank water for fertilizer for my plant nursery hobby. I will do this once a week, I have about 700 plants that I am caring for and experimenting with several different aspects of raising plants.
For my personal requirements this will very nicely tie in together.
If you are successful at raising your gold fish to adults, if well taken care of they should live for about 15 years.
After set up with gold fish it would be a simple conversion to convert to another type of fish such as tilapia. I would need heaters for them. When starting out, it is important to keep costs at a minimum.

If I loose any baby gold fish I will just pick up some more and add to the group. I am being very careful because I don’t want to loose any because of my carelessness. Those that I succeed in raising will go into my aquaponic system that I plan on starting in about 6 months. By that time a slow old curmudgeon like me should be ready to go with it.

If you have the money and would like to purchase an aquaponics system ready to go just click on the picture above. That will give you a good idea of what an aquaponic system looks like and what you could run into in the way of costs if you don‘t build your own system. To start with, keep it simple, you will have enough to learn as it is.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Elderberries In South Western Michigan

2009-08-18T06:18:00.000-07:00

Good Morning: On the Pioneer Farm where I grew up in South Western Michigan were remnants and traces of a log cabin that my great-grand-parents built and was used to raise their family. My grand-father John B. Nixon was born in 1856 and raised in that log cabin. Just a few feet north east of the cabin were planted a patch of elderberries. I can remember as a child, even though the cabin was no longer standing, the elderberry patches were growing quite well. When those berries got ripe, I spent time among the bushes, more like small trees, eating those elderberries. I never realized the real health value those berries contained. In Pioneer times they were known as the pioneers medicine chest. The flowers, leaves, berries, bark and roots have all been used in traditional folk medicine for centuries. The fruits have been used to make elderberry wine, and when cooked, can be used in pies and jams. The berries contain more vitamin C than any other herb except rosehips and black currants. Read about the value of Vitamin=C at This Link. Today they are rediscovering the value of those little dark blue elderberries.

They are using elderberries to make an alternative tincture for the cure of the flu, colds, and viruses. It would be well to have this product on hand in view of the current Swine Flu Pandemic. It’s so easy to make, easy to take, that there is no reason not to be ready and have it on hand. Read my former blog article Flu Preparations And Prevention

Isn’t it interesting that the elderberries ripen from Mid August to Mid September, just in time for the colds and viruses. Get prepared, it takes about 30 days to make the tincture from the berries and have it ready for the flu when it comes around. You can purchase dried elderberries from the health food stores; and if they don’t carry them, have them put in an order for you.

You can grow your own elderberries by ordering plants from the following link Very Important: Be sure to order The Elderberry Black Beauty, Sambucus nigra. These plants are very hardy. The elderberries growing on the farm where I lived were planted by my great-grand-parents, and I arrived 25 years after they died. There were two places on the farm where they were growing and at the time I grew up, that area was being used as pasture for horses and cows. Once you get your own plants established, they will require little care. They are beautiful when they are in full bloom and they are beautiful when the berries ripen. I loved watching the birds fly in and out of those little trees. Those little trees were just the right size for a little adventuresome kid. I used to imagine I was deep into a forest and exploring. It was no bigger than a garden area but to me it was a wondrous world full of adventure.

Brad Vigansky

Raising Ferns In South West Florida:

2009-08-14T03:55:00.000-07:00

Good Morning from Port Charlotte Florida:

With a little encouragement and proper care ferns will grow here like weeds. I keep them in pots because I don’t want them spreading into my yard. In spite of containerizing I find them growing in pots that I didn’t plant and in areas of my garden that I didn’t plant them. I did buy a specific fern that I liked a few months ago and put it into a large pot and set it on one of my tables under a tree. It started to put out runners and I decided to try to grow new plants from them. I took small pots and filled them with potting soil and placed the longer runners into the pots. If they were too long, I just circled the runner inside the pot and placed it totally into the potting soil; being sure the have the tip buried. Within a month I had fern plants developing with a new leaves about 2 feet long. I was really surprised at how fast they grew.

I immediately got some more pots, because by then the mother fern was putting out runners like topsey. I will be able to start several new fern plants from just the one mother fern. It will actually produce more runners than I can possibly take care of at this time. I actually wasn’t being very careful, I was in a hurry and did a rather sloppy job of it, but it worked. Like I said ferns in this locality are rather invasive and will g-r-o-w. It’s taking over my table very rapidly.

I have other varieties of ferns growing around the place that I dig up and throw away. One started growing with a Christmas Cactus that I will have to dig out and get rid of. Once they put their roots down, they are very tenacious in wanting to stay in the pots. Today I might re-pot some of my new fern plants. I’m not really sure if I should separate them from the parent plant, or let them mature for a while. Strawberries which develop from runners need some time to develop in sturdy new plants. They receive help from the mother plant which furnishes nourishment for some time.

I’ll make a determination some time today. I have to work on my new aquarium. I have the metal stand ready to repaint, which will take only a few minutes, then let dry, then tomorrow I will set it up with water. We have been having quite a bit of rain here and I want to do that outside; however I may get rained out before I get started. I will just have to play that by ear. If it rains, I’ll have more nap time.

A few days ago I created a few new plants with a weed whacker. I’ve put them into pots with rooting soil and so far they are holding up. I will know in a few days if I might have some additional plants to add to my collections. That’s not exactly how to propagate cuttings, but if you get them early enough, you may get some new plants. Those two kinds of plants are the kind that flower constantly and they are perennial plants, Pentas and Mexican Petunias. I am trying to increase my stock with both of those varieties.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Hurricane Charlie - Five Years Ago

2009-08-13T00:07:00.000-07:00

August 13, 2009. Five years ago today Hurricane Charlie entered into my life and did a good job of destroying my home. According to the county report my home was 66 and 2/3 destroyed. I decided right then that I would not rebuild nor would I own another house here in this area of Florida. I just was not going to go through the massive red tape to accomplish something that I probably would never be happy with. For the following month after the hurricane, my life was a nightmare. The whole area was turned into a disaster area and we had the army here taking charge, for which I was very thankful and grateful. They did a wonderful job of securing the area.

I am also grateful to the local neighbours that kept a night-time watch for looters. They actually kept a bonfire going through the night in a barrel set in the middle of the street just outside of where I was sleeping. I would have pitied any looters that might have tried to enter into the area. They would have been shot. Those young people meant business. Early on, there was no law enforcement except for what we as a group supplied in our specific area. The local law was incapacitated due to all the destruction of the hurricane. Electricity and water off and roads closed due to hurricane debris. Almost immediately the neighbours and I began to pile debris out to the sidewalks. No sooner did we get a huge accumulation of roadside debris hauled away by the county we began to pile more. This was repeated over the next few weeks several times. Each time the amount decreased until finally it was all cleaned up. I don’t remember how many weeks it took, but it was several. I could probably go into my back yard and still find small pieces of shingles still lying there as a reminder of Charlie. In between what seemed like a never ending chore we had to pick up ice and food near by from the army. The Red Cross was here and gave me money to buy a bed and some new cloths and groceries. That was greatly appreciated. We were under curfew for several weeks, we couldn’t be out on the streets after 7pm. That was really no problem for me. I don’t know about others. Since the water lines were underground, we had just enough water to flush the toilets which worked. After a week or so the water pressure in my area returned to normal. After three or four weeks the electricity was turned on. Things began to normalize, if you could call it that. The area remained in disaster mode for months. Ever so slowly, Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte have rebuilt and now after five years, the area is more beautiful than ever.

There are still some scars of Hurricane Charlie, but the trees are making a slow comeback. Many of the trees had broken limbs and broken trunks but those that survived have grown quite a bit in the past 5 years. The tall palms that used to sprinkle this area will take many more years to repopulate as people replant. Many of the fir trees in the area have been lost, but there are a few that made it. The street that I live on had many beautiful old trees, but they are all gone, however the neighbourhood is beginning to get its old charm back. Five years and a lot of hard work has made a beautiful difference.

Today I am going to spend with my youngest daughter working at the Elks in Port Charlotte. She is a cook/waitress there and I am her helper; dishwasher etc. I do that one day a week. Just enough to get out and circulate a little. It’s very enjoyable for me because that is time that I have to visit and talk to her in addition to helping with her work.

This afternoon I plan on getting my aquarium set up, get it started to cycling getting ready for a couple of fish. It is my intent to develop this eventually into an aquaponic system or feed into it. Presently it will be a hydroponic operation and I will use the change water to fertilize my regular nursery garden. I’ll keep you all posted as I continue with this project. Maybe even some pictures if I can talk Cody my grand-son into taking them. He has been in photography for some time and is continuing his studies in it with his last year of high school.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

My Aquarium

2009-08-11T03:40:00.000-07:00

Good Morning: I received a very nice fish tank yesterday from Rose my youngest daughter and guess what. Today I will be working on getting started to setting up an in house fish tank. I am a little apprehensive about getting started, at 78 I just don’t take to changes in routine very well. That is until I get with it. Then it will be ok. I just don’t want to kill a bunch of fish in order to get established.

It is my intent to go aquaponic with this fish tank and it will be my first step in getting there. I plan on stocking it with goldfish because they are the hardiest and most forgiving. It will be hydroponic to begin because I want to experiment with using the change water on my garden nursery stock and I don‘t want the extra expense of setting up plant grow tables; that‘s additional expense that I just can’t afford at this time. I just have to get used to the idea of having fish to care for and making a change in fertilizing my plants. It’s going to make quite a change. The thing that is spurring me on is that it will save me money and will at the same time improve the health of the plants. I’m hoping it will be all natural and complete the organic process.

I will be making a trip to the pet store to do some investigating on just what all I will need in the way of using the local tap water. I know I have to declorinate it and also add some other stuff to make it liveable for the fish. I may eventually wind up with an inground pond or pool; I’m just not quite sure where that will lead me. Looks like I’m inventing some words or my word processor just don’t like my spelling. Oh well! Then there is a little assembly that needs to take place. Like attaching an aerator, a heater and hooking up lights, etc. I feel like Dorothy and Toto, “Oh My!”

I am very determined to make this work, I am trying to tell people how they should try this and feel really sold on the concept. My biggest problem is building something that I will be able to handle. It’s like gardening, every plant that you add creates more work and finally you reach a point, no more plants. Getting old hasn’t been any help either. I just have to be careful not to overload my donkey. It’s a journey and it’s one step at a time. Then there are the unwanted guests in your garden like bugs and weeds. At times it seems that they just seem to appear out of nowhere. It’s either attack or loose the battle.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Aquaponics, Getting Things Right. The Small Things Count.

2009-08-09T13:52:00.000-07:00

A lesson from my early years comes to mind. When it comes to problems; it’s the small things that count. That applies to many things. Many of you can relate to that. When someone is ill, sending a card is a small thing, but it really counts. It shows that you really care.

Carbon Dioxide enrichment of your plants can greatly increase your plants rapid growth. However you must have water and light plus nutrients for this to be effective. A study of the following will aid you in making the correct adjustments to your aquaponic system. All this must come together with daylight hours because photosynthesis occurs during the daytime. If you get this put together properly your results will be healthy vigorous plants. By eating them, (the plants and fish) you too should then become healthy and vigorous. Remember you are working at the molecular structure of plants and animals and that is where your health starts; at the molecular level. You getting at the source and taking care of all these small matters will help and enrich you all during your life.

Additional reading: http://www.purgit.com/co2ok.html I can hear the global warming brats, Oh no, we can’t allow them to use more C02 for raising plants. I have one word for them and their ilk, phooey!

C=Carbon
H=Hydrogen
O=Oxygen

Photosynthesis equation is 6H2O + 6CO2 = C6H12O6+ 6O2

Photosynthesis changes six molecules of water with six molecules of carbon dioxide to one molecule of sugar and 6 molecules of oxygen. (combine so as to form a more complex, product), which is food for the plant.

6H2O + 6CO2 = C6H12O6+ 6O2 which translates to six molecules of water plus six molecules of carbon dioxide and produces one molecule of sugar plus six molecules of oxygen

A good study of Photosynthesis can be started at the following web-site: http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/BIOBK/BioBookPS.html
Studying the information at this website will be a tremendous aid for you in making good decisions in developing your aquaponics and hydroponics systems. It’s a real good lesson in science and biology. This will give you an understanding of why you might need to add or remove certain elements to your systems. This is very basic knowledge that will carry you to success with your systems of producing the best top grade food available. The right information will help you in making the right decisions. That’s a basic law of success.

In your production of the very best quality food you must understand the science of photosynthesis. It will give you a really great feeling when you see your healthy fish and plants bursting with energy and growth; ready to transfer their good health to you. You will be giving a gift of good health to all the people that will be using your produce. As a result you will be improving the health of the world.

As far as C02 and Global Warming. I think the results of the game are not yet in. There has been a tremendous scientific study going on in regard to the ancient and near ancient history or our planet and sun. We know that one of the major cycles of the movement of the sun and the planets takes 26 thousand years to complete and there are sub cycles within that. December 21, 2012 is the momentous mark of the cycles of time that completes one of those 26 thousand year periods. It will be extremely interesting to watch the heavenly bodies as they move into position to mark that particular 26 thousand year mark. As we move through that time, watch in awe as you study the handy work and majesty of God. Just to examine and evaluate what is going on in our industry and scientific endeavours one can’t help but believe that God is preparing us for an awesome future. I for one look forward with awe as this future is being unveiled.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Gardening And Health Care

2009-08-09T01:08:00.000-07:00

One of the greatest benefits that you could obtain from gardening is the study of plants in relation to your health. The reason that we as a people are having such a gigantic problem with our health is our food along with the pollutants and poisons used by our giant farms to produce their products. The use of poison to kill the bugs, which is a sign of sick plants. Then they push the plants with chemical fertilizer. So we are getting sick and poisoned plants with the plants and animals that have been poisoned. If this were to stop the big farms would go out of business. If that happened the world would starve to death. So we have a catch-22 situation.

So how do we get out of it? There are some answers that you won’t like, but you might consider them. Which would you rather have, a sick world, or a healthy world? I don’t buy the saying, “Oh that won’t work today.” Well this will work today because it is already working and proving to be absolutely successful. This leads to “Aquaponic Gardening“ and it will extend into “Hydroponic Gardening”. I look for a marriage of the two systems and I will try to explain why.

Nelson and Pade, Inc. offers proven aquaponic (organic hydroponic) systems for all applications including: hobby, home food production, education, commercial and research. By purchasing one of Nelson and Pade, Inc.'s Aquaponic Systems, you will avoid the high costs and problems associated with untested systems and home-built efforts. Nelson and Pade, Inc. offers a diverse mix of systems to meet a variety of budget, space and production requirements. All of the systems have been designed around proven concepts, equipment and fish to plant ratios. These are all very important things to consider whether you are a hobbyist, or commercial, or experimental. There is great need for more scientific experimenting in these fields. We need to extend both fields, the aquaponic and hydroponic systems to accommodate the entire farming requirements for the country. The fact that aquaponics systems produce organic food and can be certified, this needs to extend into the whole world wide effort of farming. Local education is a must, so we are talking about a life time job that anybody that has a good interest in these methods can carve out.

If you are really interested in aquaponics I urge you to go the following web site and read what they have there and then make intelligent choices. Click Here.

Like I have told my kids, learn more than you need to know when undertaking a project. Then when you start in, you will realize how little you knew about it. This is where our future as a world lies. We must educate ourselves in the area of self food production and in so doing you will embark on a wonderful lifetime education. We should make it our family objective to be as self sustaining as possible and keep the government, doctors, insurance people, and all those that want to put their hands into our wallets at bay. We can become a much stronger nation by remaining self independent. A strong family builds into a strong nation. If we lived by raising our own organic poison free food, we wouldn’t need a national health care program. Think about it. We are sick because of our ignorance and listen to unscrupulous doctors, lawyers, merchants, and thieves. Each county should have its own food distribution centre supplied by the local people for redistribution by selling and giving the left over to the poor. What a powerful, well, and happy people we would have.

Following are 3 links each to several pictures of of various operating aquaponic systems. They are very interesting, and have good ideas for working out your plans.

http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1617

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1618

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1619

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Bay Laurel For Your Garden

2009-08-08T04:24:00.000-07:00

Good Morning: I spent some time yesterday picking bay laurel leaves. I have 3 bay trees in my garden. I planted them 4 years ago and last year is the first that I harvested a few leaves from them for my personal use. I make soups a lot and love the bay leaf flavour. When I was a little guy my Mother used to make a buttermilk and potato soup and would flavour it with bay leaves. I love that flavour and finally about 4 years ago bought 3 bay laurel plants. They grew and now I can have enough leaves for my own use plus give some away.

I sprayed the trees with water and when they dried I started to pick the leaves. After I picked them I took the basket of leaves into my house and laid a terry cloth towel over my foot stool then spread the bay leaves out to dry. It will take about 3 or 4 days. After they have dried I will put them into small jelly jars and put them in my cupboard. I have a couple of friends that I will be giving the excess to.

Try them in your soup, you will like the nice flavour that your soup will have by adding a leaf or two. Don’t eat the leaves, take them out of the soup before serving because they do not get soft, just throw them away into your compost.

Gardeners in frost-free or light frost areas will find that Bay Laurel seedlings planted in the ground will grow into large trees, 40 feet and taller; but when kept pruned the Bay Laurel tree can thrive as a small bush. Bay Laurel can also be grown in a containers, the size of which limits the ultimate size of the trees. New plants are often started by layering,

Layering is a means of plant propagation in which a portion of stem grow roots while still attached to the parent plant and then you can detatch as an independent plant; or from cuttings, since growing from seed can be very difficult. I tried from seed once and none of them grew. Cuttings can also be difficult especially if you don’t know anybody that has a bay laurel plant. They are slow to root. If you do plant a bay laurel plant, it will probably sucker new plants. All three of mine are doing that, they are putting up new growth from beneath the ground and are producing roots from the side growth. This would also be a way of producing new plants.

Bay trees are difficult to start from seed, due in part to the seed's low germination rate, and long germination period. Fresh seeds with the pericarp removed typically have a 40% germination rate, while dried seeds and/or seeds with an intact pericarp have yet lower germination rates. In addition, the Bay Laurel seed germination period can be 50 days or more, which increases the risk of the seeds rotting before they germinate. Treating the seeds with Gibberellic acid will stimulate rapid stem and root growth and induce mitotic division in the leaves of some plants, and increase seed germination rate.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Gardening and Politics

2009-08-06T17:20:00.000-07:00

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What on earth does gardening have to do with politics? I am going to try and answer that question.

The origin of the United States of America began at the Declaration Of Independence and immediately produced the American Constitution which would regulate the members of the new government. The 13 States created the Federal Government. Not the other way around. We as a people almost immediately began to loose our new found freedom to “Politics”. Nowadays we need permission to expel body fluids and solids. It’s not quite that bad, but it’s going in that direction. We are at the place that the American people were when King George passed the Stamp Act and gave the soldiers the right to serve self written search warrants to be sure that all your papers had the Kings stamp on it. You can listen to Judge Andrew P. Napolitano explain that in his address on the first of April, 2009 at Ohio.

What is missing in our government are statesmen!! What we do have are a big bunch of blood sucking varmints. Isn’t that what politics mean? Poli is Greek and means many. Tics of course are blood sucking varmints. Only in English can this happen. What is a statesman? Opposed to being a Statesman a Politician is someone who attempts to gain personal advantages, most likely by scheming or manoeuvring. Also, a politician belongs to a political party; a true statesman would tower over a politician in all aspects of leadership because his leadership would be selfless; whereas the leadership of a politician would be as you can surmise a leadership of self emulation and not at all for the people. In emulation learning, subjects learn about parts of their environment and use this to achieve their own goals. Is it conceivable that the party system can be destroyed and replaced with Statesman Party Groups? If politics enters into lying that alone is evidence for scrubbing. What can replace the party system? I think one word can sum it up, “Honesty”. As soon as a man is found lying in an elected office, in my book, it’s evidence for dismissal.

After his first month Obama should have been dismissed for lying. It’s documented and provable. I’ve heard so many of his lies that I’m sick of it. Isn’t it interesting that one of the Big Ten is “Thou shalt not bear false witness”. Oh God, I quoted the Bible. Too bad for those that reject your word. Can you honestly say in the view of what is happening in our government that the biggest problem are the liars. For a government to function well, it must insist in honesty. Are we wrong to invoke the power and authority of God to intervene on our behalf to clean up our government. Is it time for a third party or a statesman’s party? Maybe I have just named it, The US Statesman’s Party. It could very easily be two parties, the ladies party and the men’s party. I can hear the howling now! In spite of the party system we have had a few good statesmen (this is inclusive for men and women) in our government down through history. That allows an open door for subversive thinking people and the one weak point is that we must too become subversive to regain control of our government. Would this in its origin be self defeating? I think that a Mother and a Father that raised a family of fine children would make very good statesmen.

Back to the home and gardening. So many people live in meagre homes due to taxes. If they do anything to improve their home and living condition, here comes the municipality with its hand out wanting more taxes. This needs to come under very careful scrutiny by the people and maybe demand a confirmation of States Rights for the county and districts. It’s time to kick a__. Thankfully and finally the States are beginning to move in this direction to kick the Federal Government out of areas that they don’t belong. Read more about it.

With a new party, God could be included with it. We are a Christian Nation are we not? This is another missing element in our government. It’s full of politicians and Godless people. If they don’t want anything to do with God, of course God will not interfere with them, even when they get in trouble. However even God has a limit on his tolerance. We are beginning to witness His interference. Daily, just look about you. We are a greatly blessed country, we just have a boil on our backside that needs attention. Once that is taken care of we can get back to our daily devotions and living. With our daily healthy living, how about considering aquaponic gardening which produces healthy organic poison free food stuffs. Aquaponic gardening is very people friendly, old, elderly, ill and infirm, all are able to care for a well set up aquaponic system. Read and See more about it.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Just What Is Aquaponic Gardening?

2009-08-05T02:14:00.000-07:00

Good morning: I have found that some people are getting confused to just what an aquaponic gardening system is. The best way that I can explain to you what an aquaponic system is will be found in this short youtube clip. It will only take 2minutes and 11seconds. I don’t know how long it might take you to download. With broadband you won’t even notice it. Dial up is another matter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS3sej53gx0&feature=related

There are a couple reasons why I like this short presentation is because it is easy to look at, and listen to. No nonsense and the aquaponic system is cheap and practical to build and not filled with extra noises. This is a real down to earth non commercial system. It is a very brief presentation, but the ideas are there and it should be listened to a couple of times, just to catch the important points. The idea being that commerce wants to sell you the most expensive system that you can afford. The fish don’t care as long as they can eat and swim around in comfort; and the plants don’t care as long as they get fed and watered and have a comfortable place to grow. What I want to sell you is the idea of solving the worlds starvation and hunger problems. Martin Luther King had a vision; I have a vision far greater than that.

For the last few blogs, I got a little political and I could see the tie in to gardening and how it has been kept from the public for years by a greedy “big business“ and will attempt to remain on track with my gardening blog. If I get political I will try to relate, Why. I think aquaponic gardening is here to stay, and as long as I am able I will try to promote it. The reason it is catching on is many faceted and I personally believe rejection to it is very political and will inject what I think is important and relate to why I think that the government will not get behind it. It’s been around for more than 10 years and is slowly leaking out into the public. As that matter aquaponic farming has been around for thousands of years. It is just recently that science from our universities has “so to speak” worked out the bugs. A well regulated aquaponic system can be certified organic and the produce is safe and free of undesirable pathogens. It will produce 10 times more food than the conventional gardening methods with 70 percent less water. The impact is staggering. It is a system that is friendly to the elderly, and people that are not able to get around very well. They can easily maintain and monitor the system. It will free up your time, no more weeding and the backyard system requires only minutes a day to maintain. This would also solve a massive food transportation problem. It would return to the local home ares. I want to shout to the world from an airplane that the world shortage of food is solved. We just need to turn the tables on the greedy that are in control of the banks and commerce. We need to get busy in our back yards. Don't even think about borrowing money to get started. Keep the banks out of it. Look for discarded materials, there are lots of things that have been designed to be thrown away that could be usable. You just have to search it out.

If you recall your Sunday School lessons your will remember that when Jesus Chirst walked into the temples, the one thing he did in anger and disgust was to knock over the “money changers” (today would be the bankers) tables. I look for that to be repeated when he returns. Banksters look out. Our problem today is not with Obama, it’s with the dirty politicians and “Bankers”. I would like to repeat how we got the word politics. Poli is Greek and it means many; and tics of course are blood sucking critters. Who else but the English could name a group so aptly? Scream and howl you buzzards, if you don’t like it, go away and hide in shame.

I’m going to into my garden and meditate.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

A Chicken In Every Pot

2009-08-04T02:11:00.000-07:00

“A Chicken In Every Pot” is a political quotation that I can remember from the 1930’s. Many attribute this quote to Herbert Hover President at the beginning of the 1930’s. At that time I didn’t know what they were talking about. Hover never used the phrase, but the Republican Party did. When tracked down you will find that the origin of the phrrase was from Henry IV of France supposedly wished that each of his peasants would enjoy “a chicken in his pot every Sunday.”

What does this all have to do with anything? Our President Obama is using his wife to show how the nation should have a garden so that our people might enjoy a chicken in every pot on Sunday. This I think is very nice, however there is a new scientifically developed by our universities a new method of gardening that will increase your yeild by ten times. At the same time it will decrease the water requirement by 70%. When you consider that it is really mind boggeling if it can be applied world wide. The nice thing about it is that it can be done on a world wide basis. However it will take a lot of education for people to do it right. What I am talking about is aquaponic gardening. That’s right, raising fish and plants in your garden.

This aquaponic system is a closed loop for the water and only requires adding water as the amount of water in the loop diminishes. The plants are grown on tables in a grow medium of gravel or other available products. The fish are grown in a separate fish tank. The fish tank and the grow tables are plumbed with tubing to circulate the water from the fish tanks to the plant tables and back to the fish tanks. The solid fish waste is filtered out and the chemical waste is nuteralized for the plants which use the nutrient rich water.

Some people have used animal manure to feed the fish but this has not proven successful because of the dangerous and undesirable pathogens introduced into the aquaponics system. This could become a cause of the spread of disease and pandemics. This problem should be remedied from the start of developing your own aquaponic gardening system.

The only negative to this system is that it requires daily monitoring. That monitoring is only about a 5 minute to a 15 minute check on equipment function and the testing of the water to maintain proper balance for the fish and for the plants. Consider the trade off, no more weeding, Halleluiah! Believe me this aquaponics will save you time. However if you aren’t careful you will have much more harvest to manage and take care of and give away or sell.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Shhh! The giant is waking up!

2009-08-03T00:55:00.000-07:00

Judge Andrew P. Napolitano gave a Keynote Speech at the Ohio Rally for State Sovereignty which was held August 1, 2009.

The speech given by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is a clarion call and the ring is going to be heard around the world. Click on the link and take about 15 minutes and listen to it. If you have any patriotism at all in your body, this speech will reach into your very soul. I have listened to it twice and believe me it is the best lesson on the US Constitution that I have ever heard.

You are hearing the alarm clock, and the warning is loudly ringing in his message. We have a government gone amuck and needs to have a few lessons on the Constitution. They, from the President on down will learn these lessons and abide by the Constitution or they are going to be fired. That is what the Tenth Amendment movement is all about. There are links on the left side of this page that you can use to keep tuned in to what is happening. I urge you to use them. Look under the heading “Political Interests”.

The giant is stretching and awakening. Either get with it or get out of the way. This awakening of the giant is going to make our Politicians in our complete government body shake in their boots. “When The People Fear The Government, That Is Tyranny! When The Government Fear The People, That Is Freedom!” Are you ready for release of the stranglehold by our government and ready for your Freedom? Start ringing those freedom bells!

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Flu Preparations And Prevention

2009-08-02T02:36:00.000-07:00

No Rick, you can't have your dog back. He's going the wrong way.

Gardening has a lot to do with maintaining my health. I get sunshine, exercise, enjoyment, relaxation and time just to meditate. I do have a couple chairs in my garden that I use from time to time. Like when I need a break. It is then I get to meditate. I have been thinking about the present swine flu pandemic and came in the house and got on my computer and started some research. I would like to share some of the information with you.

Dr. Gabriel Cousens and Dr. Russell Blaylock, and many others, recommend avoiding vaccines. There is lots of evidence from many sources that indicate and report that at best, vaccines just don’t work. In fact, they tend to weaken the immune system, sometimes even bringing about worse conditions than the viral infection itself. Why else would “big pharmaceuticals” successfully lobby, during the previous administration, for immunity from legal action due to complications caused by vaccinations? I can recall when I was 30 years old and in the fall of the year, about September I got a flu shot. Needless to say, I was sick all winter. “Oh yes, I already had the flu virus before I had the shot.” That’s what the Dr. told me. I am 78 now and haven’t had a flu shot since. A couple times I did get the flu, but I recovered quickly and didn’t have to spend the winter being ill. The sad part of all this is, you can’t prove a negative result.

Dr. Cousens recommends strengthening the immune system with vitamin C and D. Vitamin D storage is increased through skin exposure to outdoor sun and/or mercury free fish oils. Also, it’s an excellent idea to ensure you are taking in plenty of zinc with adequate selenium (don’t exceed 200 mcg) as most of the population suffers from a deficiency of this important mineral, which helps prevent cytokine storms which is swine flu deaths in healthy adults. Sunshine in moderation without blockers; it is the sun blockers combined with the sun that may be the real causes of skin cancer.

Adding sub-lingual B-12 (for better absorption) is another valid protection against cytokine storms. Getting enough sleep is high on the list of activities required for strong immune systems. Most importantly, having a good emotional attitude, which includes not stressing over pandemics and other issues, is essential to the immune system. I wonder where that term cytokine storms came from. I looked it up and all I could find is that it is what they call swine flu deaths in healthy adults. I’m really paranoid about it; could it really be murder?

Here is a recipe for making: Elderberry Tincture. One thing for sure, it’s safer than a flu shot.

1) Clean Quart Jar add 1/4 pound dried elderberries (Must be Sambucus nigra)
Purchase dried elderberries at a health food store.
2) Fill to top with vodka. Put lid on tight.
3) Store in a dark cupboard and shake once every few days.
4) Label and date the jar and let it sit for at least 30 days before you strain it. It can be used without straining and it will just continue to get stronger

Recommended Dosage: Take 1 teaspoon four or five times daily during infections. Otherwise once daily as a preventative during flu season.

Sambucus nigra, or European elder, is a tall tree-like shrub, native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and naturalized in the United States. Various parts of the elder have long been used in traditional medicine as a diaphoretic, diuretic, astringent, laxative, and emetic. The berries were used traditionally as a food to make elderberry wine and pies, and as a flavoring or dye. Currently, extracts of the berries are used primarily as antiviral agents for colds, influenza, and Herpes virus infection. Research has also demonstrated Sambucus nigra has immune-modulating, antioxidant, and insulin-stimulating properties. Quote from: Sambucus nigra: Alternative Medicine Review, March, 2005

I have made this tincture of elderberry and it's so easy to make there is no reason that everybody couldn't have this on hand during cold and flu season.

I wonder how a shot of blackberry brandy would do?

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Marijuana Tobacco Alcohol and Gardening

2009-08-01T05:52:00.000-07:00

Marijuana and Tobacco and Alcohol. I could raise all that stuff in my garden. Tobacco and
Marijuana are both plants and the raising of them has been going on for years. As for alcohol man has been making it since Noah. I have made grape wine and it's no big deal. One year I made 55 gallons of wine and it lasted for four years. It got better by the year. An argument for or against growing any one is just as good or bad as the other. I for one am neither for or against the legalization of Marijuana, Tobacco or Alcohol for that matter. If I got sick and knew that Marijuana would help me, what do you think an old gardener like me would do? If I didn’t smoke it I could use it to make rope. Why not make rope out the excess or the plant parts that remain after harvesting the smoking part? There’s an industry waiting to happen. Because of that, I think it would be worth while to legalize it. Overnight we could begin to ship rope made from hemp. Maybe we could make hanging ropes for the revenuers.

If you want to see real recovery, get the government out of all of them. They have been on that tit for too many years. What our government needs is to dry out from the excesses they have been experiencing by stealing from the people. Let’s call it what it really is. Theft and actual extortion. There are so many taxes and hidden taxes and fees it would be exhausting just to list them all. Look how many pages it takes to list all the taxes and charges you are billed on your phone bill. The ones I hated the most were the telephone tax.

When the MagicJack came on the scene I bought one. I immediately did away with my land line for the telephone. I ordered a 5 year subscription at a 20% discount. So for 5 years I had to pay $79.80. That one payment was equal to my landline bill for one month. So now I have all the amenities of the land line telephone except for the very costly billing. My cost per month with MagicJack is, are you ready for this, it’s $1.33. That’s right, it isn’t a typo, it is one dollar and thirty-three cents per month. I have had my MagicJack phone for nearly two years now and just try to make me change back.

Now that I have the phone with the magic jack I can go anywhere there is a computer and take it with me and use it. It’s self-programmable and works like a charm. Just try and talk me out of it.

Getting back to Marijuana and Tobacco, the problem is not the people, it’s the government. Leave the people alone. These are problems that must be, should be, and will be on the local level. If a community wants to be what is called ‘dry’ let them be. The people as a whole will do a very good job at local government. It’s already established, we just need declarations on the local level for the federal or state government to but out. We could truly return then to an honest representative government. We need to revisit the Federalist arguments when this great nation was being formed and maybe turn the clock back a little. Maybe not just a little but a lot.

On to good health. If you want to get healthy, raise your own organic food. It can be done from fruit, vegetables to fish. That’s right fish in your aquaponics garden. It can also be certified ‘organic‘. Check out the links on left under Excellence In Aquaponics.

As a recommendation for housing our government, what we need to do is legalize all the drug traffic. Then turn one of the empty prisons into a camp for our newly elected federal government and let them set up for about 3 months out of the year to conduct their business, then go back home for the rest of the year. The same goes for the states. Each one take one of their empty prisons and turn it into a camp for the state government and turn them out after 6 to 12 weeks and let them go back home to their representative people. We might have to consider a draft to enlist people for some government jobs. No term to exceed 2 years.

Rent out Washington DC and the empty state capitals. Talk about saving money and turning the world into a paradise. It just may happen. We as a people can do it.

Thank you for reading my blog: Brad Vigansky

A Little Departure From My Gardening

2009-08-01T01:27:00.000-07:00

Posted on 14 July 2009 by Tenth Amendment

The following is a quote from Federal Reserve: Secrecy vs Independence written by Ron Paul:

The hearings on Capitol Hill provided us with a great deal of information about the types of arguments that will be levied against meaningful transparency and how the secretive central bankers will defend the status quo that is so beneficial to them.

Claims are made that auditing the Fed would compromise its independence. However, by independence, they really mean secrecy. The Fed clearly cherishes its vast power to create and spend trillions of dollars, diluting the value of every other dollar in circulation, making deals with other central banks, and bailing out cronies, all to the detriment of the taxpayer, and to the enrichment of themselves. I am happy to challenge this type of “independence”. (End of quote.)

A question I have about the above statement is: Do you think our Congress controls the Federal Reserve? If you do, you are in the dark about the theft of American property that is going on right under your nose. The Federal Reserve does not need to be audited, they need to be shut down. Then Congress could get about doing what it hasn’t done for nearly 100 years; and that is controlling the value of the money in accordance to the US Constitution. Don’t, I repeat Do not believe their lies. The very nice thing about shutting down the Federal Reserve would be that it would stop the plunder of our wealth that is being carried out by the illegal IRS. Then Congress could get around to issuing debt free money. All the Federal Reserve money carries the life sucking debt with it. That’s why the IRS was created simultaneously with the Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Reserve Act.

To really cap the lie, The Federal Reserve Bank is not Federal, it is a privately owned bank. That is why it has never been audited and never will be. If our present Congress audits it, it will be a sham. They need to be closed down forever.
Ron Paul’s approach to this problem is excellent but just a start, it brings an awareness to the people of the crooked operations that we have going within our government and their love affair with the Federal Reserve. Think again if you think the Chairman of the Federal Reserve is appointed by the President. That is nothing more than a show to the American People and part of the deception that has been going on since 1913. A real audit of the Federal Reserve Bank would expose the Congressmen that are involved in this bigger than Maddof Ponzi schemes. I liked Ross Perot’s idea about the Federal Reserve and their accounting, "That’s just a bunch of notes on a ledger."

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Make Your Own Aquaponics System

2009-07-31T04:25:00.000-07:00

Is the Garden Of Eden waiting for the ingenuity of man?

You may wonder what kind of question is that?

With the ingenuity and inventive genius of man, it isn’t a stretch of the imagination to foresee the day that the whole world will blossom at the hands of man and his care and husbandry of his home and garden farming.

The technology exists today and along with the design of the aquaponic system of raising fish and plants in one enclosed unit, but where the plants are separated from the fish. Only the water is in a closed loop and circulated from the fish tank to the plant tables and back again to the fish tank. The fantastic facts about this aquaponic system is that the garden production is 10 times higher than the regular farming and gardening practices. In addition to that the food produced by the aquaponic system is organic. Commercial fertilizers are not needed. Insect and pests are controlled because it is an enclosed system and not subject to them. If you used solar power to operate your circulation system, along with gravity, your cost of energy would be minimal. Another gigantic plus is that the aquaponic system uses 70 percent less water, because the water is circulated and used over and over. Water is added only because of evaporation and loss from removal of plants and fish. The water remains clean and is aerated and remains good for using.

Since I live in Florida I do have a concern about the water roaches that thrive in abundance here. With my current way of living here I have them under control. I use boric acid when I clean. I put it in the mop water and it works quite well. Then when I wash woodwork and walls inside the house I also use boric acid in the wash water. You must not use it in your plant water because it would kill the plants. I don’t know about the fish. I have used boric acid in my carport for about 4 years and I have 2 cats that live out there. They are not bothered by roaches, ticks, or mites. I do treat their ears about once a year just to prevent ear mites from ever bothering them. I use yellow dock to clean their ears. You can buy yellow dock from a health food store. I take one ounce of warm distilled water and mix one capsule of Yellow Dock and take a cotton swab and dip it into the solution and saturate their ears with it. The cats don’t like it, but you must get that down into their inner ear to get at the ear mites. It only takes one treatment. My cats are not bothered with ear mites, fleas or ticks. See my article on Roach Poison that is pet and people friendly at this link.

Returning back to the aquaponic system it would seem to me that it could be extended into other areas of agriculture and I’m sure the inventive genius of man, that will occur. I will try to search out all the free educational material that I can and relate it her in my blogs. As I come across excellent articles I will post them here.

With the development of aquaponic systems, education would have to accompany the building of private units to prevent pollution. There is a great need for much more scientific experimenting in order to develop this infant industry to a world wide application. By having central aquaponic operations, this would eliminate transportation of produce to market. The market would have their own centres for the people to come and buy and trade. It’s the people that will support the central markets, bringing their excess produce and trading for produce they want or need. I see it as becoming part of the culture. Actually that culture has not died out, it still exists, but mans government and taxation system has really put a lid on the free marketing enterprise. Here in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda, Florida, 25 years ago they had thriving farm market centres. They used to call them flea markets. The central city business men put them out of business by inflicting taxes on the people that were just trying to get by. The merchants couldn’t stand the heat in the kitchen and hated the operations of the free markets. With everyone having an aquaponic system, farm markets could once again begin to thrive. In addition, all the fresh food would be organic, if raised by using aquaponics. That’s a huge plus for aquaponics.

You talk about a Paradise and Garden Of Eden. If done right it will be a beautiful creation to behold. The nice thing about it is that you can take a modular approach in building your own aquaponics system. The market has available what look like chest units where the fish tank is the lower portion with the grow beds on top of the fish tanks. Two plant grow beds on the top with a separation to have access to the water and fish below. I’m just not sure of that type of design. Having the plants that near the water source would invite the water roaches.

This is going to be an industry worth watching and maybe getting involved for your self, for your good health, happiness, and prosperity.

To see a diagram of an aquaponics system in West Plains, Mo. Go to this link.

If you would like a detailed article of what you will need if you decide to build a small aquaponics system just for testing and using for yourself, go to the following link and read the article by Rebecca Nelson on How To Build a Mini-Aquaponic System. This article is very thorough in furnishing the cost, list of items and material and tools needed. Depending on your choice of items it will cost you from $23. to $126. Keep in mind that this is an actual aquaponics system that can be used for demostration and experimenting. What you will learn from doing this will be very valuable to you. Make your mistakes on a small scale so that it doesn’t cost you a lot of money.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Mysteries Of Vitamin C and Organic Gardening

2009-07-30T16:42:00.000-07:00

When following all the rules of organic gardening, you still won’t get your plants to produce enough Vitamin C for your daily consumption. Read on and learn about the Mysteries of Vitamin C.

Have you ever heard of Linus Pauling? Well you should know about him and his scientific studies about Vitamin C. He was a Nobel Prize winner for his scientific work and studies.

Did you know that your body does not produce any Vitamin C. I think it’s quite strange when a grown goat produces about 13,000 mg of its own Vitamin C on a daily basis. You might think, well what is so strange about that? When you stop to think about it the RDA recommended dosage for humans is far lower, much much lower than that. It’s amazing that we as a people aren’t much sicker than what we are. I wonder if goats milk has anything to do with being so healthy for people and the fact that goats produce their own Vitamin C?

I would like you to go and read a speech given by Dr. Pauling in 1993. http://sites.google.com/site/yourfreerecipepages/Home/linus-pauling-and-vitamin-c
It’s a very short one page article but you will find it well worth your while to read what Dr. Pauling had to say about Vitamin C.

I hope you enjoyed that article and learned the importance of Vitamin C in your life. Now I would like you to go and read some more about Vitamin C produced by TriVita. http://www.trivita.com/US-EN/shop/productdetail.aspx?pid=178&ss2=hc&ss3=36&tref=13108620

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Aquaponics Without Chickens

2009-07-28T02:25:00.000-07:00

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From what I can determine, for health sake, some people combine raising chickens with their aquaponics. This is not a good practice because of the very undesirable pathogens found in chicken and other animal manure. I personally will not use it. Again I urge you to study the following information found at http://www.rainbowfish.se/mailgroup/f80.htm . Sure this has been a practice in the Far East for thousands of years, but look at the history of disease and pandemics that have originated from that part of the world. The buck will stop at home. With proper practices in aquaponics culture it will remain ever important not to use animal waste in any form for raising flies or direct feeding your fish from such manure products. This will keep coming up from time to time because old practices and habits die a hard slow death. However it is extremely important to the quality of food to determine that you will be organic in your personal development of your system.

When building your aquaponics system keep in mind that you will eventually want to become certified organic, and I’m sure that improper use of animal waste will not be tolerated. As far as raising chickens that is fine, just don’t try to loop it into your aquaponics system. This is an area that will require scientific study and analysis of proper procedures in order to ever combine it into your aquaponics systems. In the years to come science may find a way to do this successfully, without the undesirable pathogens.

There is an aquaponics farm system that has been developed in West Plains, Missouri, and they have a copy of a good overview of their aquaponics system and you might go their web-page and take a look and evaluate it for your own purpose. They have been in business since the early 1990’s. With 15+ years of successful practice of producing top grade organic tilapia and organic fresh fruit and vegetables; you will want to emulate their success. You will read that their system is a simple, reliable, low-cost growing system used to produce a supply of safe, superior quality foods. They integrate hydroponics and aquaculture in a closed system to produce premium tilapia and fresh herbs and vegetables. Although creative, this method of food production is no mere novelty. It is a low-cost, no nonsense system. It is beautiful in its simplicity. You can see a plan of it on their site at http://www.jaggartech.com/snsaqua/page2.htm . Go over this short article and diagram very carefully because it is loaded with a ton of good information. You will need to know all of it. Don’t just read it, study it.

Good luck with your aquaponics system and remember good luck happens with hard work and perseverance. These principles are laws of success.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Aquaponics For Plants, Fish, Flies, Worms, Frogs, & Chickens

2009-07-27T17:04:00.000-07:00

Will it be worth it to raise flies for the larva for food for your fish and chickens? If you live alone, it may not be worth the time and results. However for a family the answer may be possibly. It is a bio loop that can connect from your regular farming to aquaponics; and tie together very nicely. If you have a source for plant refuse and garbage, you are all set. At this time I would avoid animal garbage due to disease and other undesirable creatures. If you do use animal refuse it is not advisable to use in your aquaponics operation. Probably would be ok if used on shrubs and flowers. For a stern rebuke and excellent comment on using animal refuse refer to the following link.
http://www.rainbowfish.se/mailgroup/f80.htm

If you are serious about aquaponics you need to get curious about a biopod and how it works. What you should use and how to use it to produce live feed for your fish. It is very practical and very beneficial in order to remain organic in your operation of your aquaponic garden or just a regular garden. For a complete run down go to http://www.thebiopod.com/pages/resources.html You can study what you need to know about raising fly larva. You need to accommodate both. The fly you need for the eggs and the eggs produce the larva that you are wanting to raise for the protein and fat animal food value. Chickens, fish, and frogs go bonkers over these larva.

To learn which kind of fly is the best to be raising go to The BSF Blog. http://blacksoldierfly.blogspot.com/ This blog will identify the proper fly that would be most beneficial for you to have for raising animal feed. The grubs are 42 percent protien and 35 percent fat.

The biopod is a completely enclosed system and is no problem in harvesting. The set up will automatically produce harvested larva constantly once you get it going. All you will have to do is clean it periodically and feed your animals on a daily basis of you protein and fat production. Actually if you are handy, you could build your own biopod with automatic harvesting because of the movement from feeding after it has matured, the larva leave the food source and search for a place to wait for turning into a fly. Just build a ramp and at the end of it they can fall into a container.

Want to see some fun. Drop some larva on the ground for your chickens or a handful into your tank of tilapias or goldfish. That food will disappear in a few seconds. Did you know that a healthy hen (chicken) will live up to 18 years and produce eggs during that time. So plan on keeping your hens around and these larva will help to keep them healthy and producing eggs. The chicken manure is fantastic for your garden. Just don’t use too much.

I hope you will be interested in some of the following links. They will help to teach you what you need to know if you are serious about aquaponics, organic gardening, frog raising, or even other aquatic animals. http://youtube.com/user/larvalover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RYykLqKy5c Toads eating larva and flys.

Black Soldier Fly Emerging From It's Pupa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNMtezlpDN8&feature=related

For a detailed commercial type study of raising The Black Soldier Fly.
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/waste_mgt/smithfield_projects/phase2report05/cd,web%20files/A2.pdf

If you are at all interested, you can actually purchase a garbage disposal that is designed to automatically harvest the BSF larva. (BSF stands for Black Soldier Fly) It’s a little pricy but then I believe it could be worth its weight in gold. The price of the unit is $167. http://blacksoldierflyblog.com/ Going from garbage to chicken and fish feed is something. It is designed to be self harvesting. Diptera: Stratiomyidae is the botanical name for the Black Soldier Fly.

In climate controlled conditions 20 percent of food waste can be bio converted into larva. So a hundred pounds of food waste will convert to 20 pounds of larva; of which are 42 percent protein and 35 percent fat. An excellent ration for chicken feed and fish food. Even frogs, if you were inclined to include frogs in you aquabionic operation. I’m sure there is a high demand for a high quality frog legs. I haven’t seen it yet, but I’m sure that this could be developed into an aquabionic frog farm. Frogs love live fly larva. They need to be moving for the frog to see them. You could design your own harvesting of the larva to feed right into your fish aquarium or your frog aquarium or even your chicken yard.

During the process of decomposition of 100 pounds of food scraps by the fly larva you will get roughly 5 pounds of a black rich residue. This is a mixture of undigested food remains as well as the casting and shed chitin exoskeletons from the fly larva. You can use this residue directly in your regular garden. Or if you are into red worm culture, it would be and excellent source of food for your red worms. There is another spin off. Are you into worms.

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/waste_mgt/smithfield_projects/phase2report05/cd,web%20files/A2.pdf This link will take you to a study of the Black Soldier Fly and Larva and you could possibly learn how to raise the pupa in a commercial operation and be a very profitable source for animal feed. This would be good in counties centres where waste is gathered and used and recycled. Turning garbage into animal feed by the use of larva would be excellent because the by product would be a high grade compost excellent for use in gardens.

I hope all of this hasn’t overloaded you, but it is a result of my study of the Black Soldier Fly and Larva. I never realized before this study how useful a fly could be. There is a place for it, under control. You should be able to make your gardening efforts burst with energy and beauty and health; and lastly help to solve the worlds food shortage.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Planning My New Aquaponics Garden

2009-07-26T23:13:00.000-07:00

I’m beginning to mentally draw up my plans for my first aquaponic garden. To start with, it’s going to be a hobby, not a business and hopefully will supplement my grocery bill . Because of circumstances and where I live I will be quite limited with space. I am trying to determine exactly where on the premises that I will place it. I have a screened in carport that could be adapted to it and could easily be extended outside without too much of a problem Since my hobby plant nursery takes up a lot of space outside I am quite limited. Of course it will depend on exactly what I grow in the aquaponic garden as to what I will stop growing outside. This necessitates a complete reorganization of my carport which will become my aquaponic garden. I use part of my carport for work space associated with my regular gardening. That will definitely have to be reorganized and possibly moved.

If I go with the carport idea, I will have to install grow lights. That’s ok because with plants growing under grow lights I will be able to extend and speed up their production season. It will also protect my aquaponic garden from the elements. I certainly don’t want rain water entering directly into my aquaponic garden. It will also give a degree of protection during some of the cold nights that we have during the winter here in Port Charlotte, Florida.

Since I need a permit for the tilapia fish, I think I will start out with goldfish and switch to talapia at a later time because the talapia would require that I have more tanks. Another thing, goldfish are a much more hardy fish than tilapia. I want to start with 2 tanks, one being a water holding tank to condition the water before I add it to the aqua bionic garden; because my water source is city water and deadly for fish. I think I’ll start by setting up one tank as the holding tank to make sure that I will be able to use that as my water source. I don’t think that will present a problem.

I read somewhere that in a holding tank that it is recommended to put seaweed into it. That should help to balance it out make the water suitable for use in the aquaponics system. It will be interesting experimenting with it.

This is going to be a project like most of my projects, a work in progress. I have to take it one step at a time. I’m an old man and I’m kind of slow at implementing things. It will be just little by little. I just hope I can get some plants going before winter sets in. I’ll have to give it a kick to get it on the move.

Thanks for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Tilapia And Aquaponics

2009-07-25T01:04:00.000-07:00

Tilapia fish are a group of cichlids which are endemic to Africa. This means they are all over Africa and somewhat out of control. They are very good parents and watching over their fingerlings until a certain time then they cannibalize them. So if you are thinking about raising them in a back yard aquaponic system, you will need to check and see if you need a permit. Many states you do not need a permit, but here in Florida you do. I can see and understand why? Look at the thousands of pythons that are taking over the everglades here in Florida. It’s really frightening. The balance of wild life is really in grave danger in the everglades. If they start getting into the canals, I’m out of here, and hopefully not by a python. If the cost of the permit will help to eliminate problems like the python, then I’m all for it. Florida has allowed permits to rais tilapia fish hydroponics operations, so I don’t see a problem.

Don’t let that deter you from aquaponics because it is a closed system and the fish are kept enclosed and there is no real danger of getting into the wild if proper care is taken or you deliberately toss them into a canal. You might have more problems with some of the plants that you might raise. Although considering, I don’t see why that would become a problem because they are also contained and closely controlled. After all, it’s going to be your automatic grocery renewal in your back yard. There are alternatives, however the tilapia is a favourite because of their good quality food and rapid growth and ease of breeding and raising them. You might consider raising local type of fish. I don’t know right now what that might be, but other fish will do well and work well for you but may not be as productive. It depends if you want to sell fresh fish in the market.

In third world countries the breeding of tilapia is carried on from ponds and they suffer from stunted growth. Probably due to food shortages. They gather the fingerlings from the ponds and put them into their stock tanks for raising. This is not a good way. Since this is going to be a family type enterprise of the future, it would be best to bring along and develop as the backyard breeding of tilapia. This can easily be accomplished by putting one male with about 5 females and let them breed. This is a special process, but not difficult. When the fingerlings arrive and the mothers are still carrying them in their mouths they need to be separated from the other fish and put alone with her fingerlings in a separate tank. There is a method for accomplishing this. Then shortly after that you have to separate the mother from her fingerlings because they will cannibalize them. So be watchful or your fingerlings will disappear.

For more in depth study of raising tilapia go to the following web-site. You will have answered questions that you haven’t thought to ask. The articles are very good, well documented and thorough.

http://tilapiafarmingathome.com/default.aspx

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

A Call To All Patriots

2009-07-24T12:03:00.000-07:00

The world today on one hand is in a lot of trouble due to food shortages. The sad part of this message is that the technology exists to bring the world out of food shortage. A lesson in nature teaches that to give to nature causes nature to yield. Think about that for a minute, if that is so, why then are not our farming practices yielding the desired results. The answer is so simple that a child can understand it. You must give to nature if your want nature to yield. There is a system being developed today that is amazing the agricultural business people around the world. It is also standing the fish farming on its ear. This technology is called aquaponics. It’s an amazing win win situation with nature yielding 10 fold. That is a staggering statement but it is being proven scientifically in our universities that the aquaponics system of raising vegetables produces 10 times the amount of vegetables that the normal methods of agriculture produces.

As a result of combining raising fish and plants in a symbiotic relationship produces these fantastic results. On top of that the successful aquabionic operations are being certified as organic. That statement alone is staggering the people that are working with it. If Obama wants to produce a successful Health program, he needs to examine what is happening in this field. Kids being raised from the products produced right in their back yard would grow up to be healthy without even trying. I can visualize that this will put a lot of our doctors out of business. That’s what they want, isn’t it? If we got well, we wouldn’t need them or the national health care package.

If aquabionics produces certified organic products, that means that every family in the world could become self sufficient in their own food production. This system is in its infancy and beginning to branch out and spill over into the conventional agriculture. All of a sudden the water shortage would disappear. You can raise 10 times more vegetable on 70 percent less water. The water is being circulated in an enclosed system and used many times over. Of course there is a loss due to evaporation but converting to this system would reduce your water bill. Now you figure.

I urge all of you Patriots around the world to get interested in this program. If you have to build a make shift aquabionics system; then do it. You will need to learn about testing the water on a daily basis to prevent the loss of plants and fish from over toxicity or lack of oxygen. You just need to spend 10 to 15 minutes daily to insure that your system is functioning properly and make adjustments accordingly.

YouTube has some wonderful teaching clips on building from the very simple to the more complex. Just do a search for “aquaponics clips on youtube”. You will find lots of information out there. To start with it would be best to use what you might have on hand to get started. Then as you get a working system go for it and make improvements as you can afford them. Think of this as a fire alarm and the world is on fire and we have to put it out. It can be done. Think of it as designing your future pot farm. Aquabionics produces top grade pot. When it becomes legal we can start making rope again from our own hemp.

There are lots of things that I wonder about. For instance, how could you tie raising goats into this? Could you extend your system to accommodate the feeding of goats? For that matter, what about chickens and other animals? Is there a symbiotic loop there that we haven’t developed as of yet?

I feel like we as a nation (the United States) felt at the beginning of the Second World War. I was 10 years old when that war started and I remember how the country went to work and built a war machine that was second to none. We are at that point with aquaponics. We’re just getting started, hang on for the next 3 or 4 years. The war is world wide hunger due primarily to plunder, however now there is a way out. You can become part of the solution.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Aquaponics - Some things you need to know

2009-07-24T06:12:00.000-07:00

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The following article by Abhishek Agarwal, Aquarium Care should be studied carefully then you will know how to use your water source for your personal aquaponics system. This is extremely important to know. You don’t want to kill your fish with fresh city water. Several years ago my grandson, then a teenager came home with a nice new healthy goldfish. When he got home with it, the first thing he did was fill his new fish bowl with city tap water. Within 5 minutes the poor fish was dead. Now you don’t want that to happen to you. Ever since becoming interested in aquaponics as a hobby for myself, the water source is my main concern. Once that is solved the rest should be duck soup.

Enjoy the article:

Aquarium Care - 3 Great Ways To Condition Water In Your Fish Tank

Author: Abhishek Agarwal

Creating a condition that is safe for the survival of fish in the aquarium is very essential factor. A careful study has to be made of the water condition and the water should be modified with buffers to make it safe for the fish to live in. The fish live in alkaline conditions which prevent a drop in the balance and regulate the balance of pH in the water. Tap water is used most of the time for fish tanks and requires treatment which has to be purchased regularly.

1. Various kinds of Water treatments

For those who are new to the hobby of keeping fish it is essential to get to know how to test the water and to find out what is lacking in it or what is in excess. There are kits which provide you with the results of ammonia, nitrates, nitrites and chlorine in the water in the tank. The waste produced by the fish creates ammonia which turns into nitrates, so you should conduct the tests regularly at a certain time on the water. Unlike humans fish cannot tolerate chlorine in the water which is used to make water potable for human consumption.

Before you get yourself water treatment solutions it is best to have the tap water tested so that you know what sort of water you have and what the solution for it should be. You could call the local department for testing water and also inform them that you have an aquarium and would like to know the water analysis for this reason. Tap water usually contains Trichloroethylene or TCE, phosphates, metal, chlorine, copper and chloramines.

2. How to make tap water fit for use for your fish tank

When you use tap water for the fish tank it is better to allow the water to run for a while before filling the fish tank, or even let it stand overnight so that it gets purified or additional chemicals are removed.

In case there are only chlorinates in the tap water then you could use treatment such as thiosulphate dechlorinators which are sodium based. In case there are other chemicals in the water then it would be better to consult your pet shop about the sort of treatment you should use for the water.

3. Cleaning equipment for the tank

You would need things like nets, buckets, a hose etc. for cleaning your fish tank. These things are not very expensive and you could even search on the internet where you can get this stuff in your locality or to a place closest to your location. You could also do some research on the internet and find out more about water cleaning methods for use in the fish tanks.

Another wrong notion which is a myth is that salt should be added to the water to maintain fish, however some fish from tropical waters find salt de-stressing in the water.

About the Author:

Abhishek is an avid Fish Lover and he has got some great Aquarium Care Secrets up his sleeves! Download his FREE 105 Pages Ebook, "Aquarium Care Made Easy!" from his website http://www.Wonder-Homes.com/636/index.htm . Only limited Free Copies available.

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Thank you for reading my blog: Brad Vigansky

Growing Plumeria Frangipani

2009-07-22T03:27:00.000-07:00

Plumeria trees are tropical and must have conditions as near to tropical in order to flourish. Plumeria do best in full sun with at least a half day's sun exposure to bloom properly. They do well when potted in an appropriate size pot to the size of the tree in well drained soil. I am lucky and have one planted near my house for added protection from the weather. I will cover and wrap it during frosty or near freezing weather.

Give your plumeria as much sun as possible. Here in Port Charlotte Florida, the people have experienced severe loss of the plumeria trees because of severe frost in the area. If they are a well established plant they will return to growing from the roots. I have noticed a lot of the neighbours have cut their plumeria to the ground but they are putting up new growth and most are doing quite well.

The pllumeria like a fertilizer that is high in phosphorus. Middle number, if you can get it. A water soluble fertilizer should have a phosphorus content of 50 or higher. Granular fertilizer needs to have a content of phosphorus 20 or higher. I wonder how the water from the fish tanks from an aquaponics system would do for fertilizing.

Place your plumeria in well drained soil. Be sure the drain holes remain open if you are potting. Plumeria will do quite well inside with grow lights or in screened pool cages if the pool cage is in the full sun.

When rooting plumeria, place only 3 inches of the stalk into the soil for a 12 inch to 16 inch cuttings. I find that cuttings about 12 inches long do the best.

I root my cuttings in the shade and water them like a regular plant with roots. I do not overwater. They will drop their leaves when you are starting from cuttings. Some advise not to water while the plant is rooting, but in this area it would be like rooting in dry sand. They wont grow. I have put cuttings in the ground here in South West Florida during the winter and they do very well. In this area it doesn’t seem to matter when you start to develop the plant from a cutting. During the winter it will just stay dormant. Then in late February it will start to grow. If you have a nice neighbor that has a Plumeria tree, maybe you would be able to get a cutting from them. Or watch the weather, maybe the wind might break a branch and you would be able to get some cuttings. The cheapest cuttings that I could buy on the internet are $10 plus shipping. I have seen them as high as $200.

You will know when they are rooting when they start to grow. I do not root them in pots, I just root them under a table in my garden.

Your watering schedule will depend on your location and your time of year. They just don’t like over watering.

Learn as much as you can about the plumeria. You will get a good range of opinion but remember, some of those opinions are based on weather condition in various geographical locations. Just remember that plumeria is a sub tropical plant and they don’t like cold weather. Here in South West Florida they drop their leave in the fall when the weather gets chilly. (Now that’s a relative term.)

As for me the plumeria is one of my favorite garden plants. It is a tropical tree. Once you get yours to bloom you will be forever attached to it. They are well worth the extra attention that it takes to raise them.

Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

Water Shortage and Gardening

2009-07-21T03:06:00.000-07:00

Get used to seeing fish in your garden. Aquaponics has arrived and fish are here to stay. Here in South West Florida, Port Charlotte, we are experiencing a severe water shortage and it’s beginning to affect my attempts at gardening with the requirement of water conservation. There is a solution now available, but at a personal cost. The solution is to convert my gardening efforts to “Aquabionics”. That is a relatively new word because my spell checker doesn’t like it yet. The overall solution would require a large fish tank, sufficient enough to furnish the water to a water-table that will contain my plants. Then I will need to furnish the plumbing to circulate the water from the fish-tank or tanks to the water-tables. Then I have to have return plumbing carrying the water from the water-tables back to the fish tank(s). This of course would require a sump pump for circulating the water in the up direction. Of course gravity will furnish the energy to circulate the water in the down direction. With about 15 minutes of daily maintenance per day, an aquaponic system can provide fresh fish and vegetables year-round. Wouldn’t that be nice to have one in every home. If Obama needs a banner to move forward it will be “Aquabionics”.

The above system of course would require constant daily management. Time wise it would be much easier and require much less time than the old convention of gardening. That’s really great and the other benefits are even greater. This will furnish my family with certified fresh organic fruits and vegetables. When you think about it the statistics are staggering to the point of being unbelievable; and best of all there would be no weeding requirements. When it rains here in Florida the weeds become difficult if not impossible to manage. The trade off in work would be tremendous and very much more rewarding.

A list of fish that could be raised in your tank would be: I think it’s fantastic that Tilapia is the choice at the top of the list. I have made a herring like pickled fish from fresh Tilapia and it‘s really great. For a free recipe you can go to the following link:
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Tilapia.
Large mouth bass.
Sunfish.
Crappie.
Koi.
Fancy goldfish.
Pacu.
Various ornamental fish such as angelfish, guppies, tetras, swordfish, mollies.

Plants that will do well in any aquaponic system:

Any leafy lettuce.
Pak choi.
Spinach.
Arugula.
Basil.
Mint.
Watercress.
Chives.
Most common house plants.

Plants that have higher nutritional demands and will only do well in a heavily stocked, well established aquaponic system:

Tomatoes.
Peppers.
Cucumbers.
Beans.
Peas.
Squash.

I’m sure as time goes on and more and more people get into this type of gardening that experimenting at the home level and the scientific level will bring about amazing results. Remember this “Aquabionics” is a very new adventure with the people of the world. Even in my old age I am really excited about it. This is what will return good health to people around the world. The water requirement is only about 10percent of the conventional methods of raising plants and fish. The fantastic thing about it is that they system is self cleaning.

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Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky

My Nursery Garden In My Back Yard

2009-07-20T19:02:00.000-07:00

Desert Roses with seed pods -------- Brad Vigansky July 2009
Pictures by Cody Hunter Roy©

The picture in the upper left is my Desert Rose with about 20 seed pods set on and seem to be doing quite well. It seems that open pollination is working just fine, so far. This is the third year that I have had that plant and moved it into my back yard where it receives full sun. Here in South West Florida in Port Charlotte, the summer sun is hot hot hot; however the Desert Rose is thriving. I was concerned at first and the first two years I protected it from the sun, but after some research I found that they like the full sun. The one thing I have been concerned about is the excess rain that we sometimes get here. However we have been in a drought for the last three or four years, maybe more and it appears that the Desert Rose loves it. I have three varieties setting together for the purpose of cross pollination. I may be in for some pleasant surprises.

It’s not very clear but at the top of the picture in the right corner is a screen covered frame that I have about 90 desert rose babies growing and doing nicely under the screen. By the time I’m 80 years old, if all goes well, I should have some to sell. It looks like I’m going to have plenty of seed. Next year, I may be able to sell some of them.

I was going to try cuttings and grafting but since it seems like I will have seed production, I’m going to stick with raising them from seed. It takes about three years to get a saleable plant.

Right at this time I am having a problem with little yellow aphid like looking little creatures. I am trying to be organic in my approach, so I have to watch very closely and am only dusting where I see the little critters. I think they are the Mexican Milk Weed beetle. They are voracious little varmints and would completely eat all the leaves off of my desert rose plants. I check them every day.

The desert rose is a megapode or big foot and that is part of the charm of this plant. If I grow them from cuttings, the new plants will not develop this megapode. If you copy the picture you could enlarge it and see better how the bigfoot grows. You also could see the seed pods better.

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Replace Your Illness With Aquaponics And Obedience To God.

2009-07-20T04:16:00.000-07:00

All of this hoop-ala about national health care is a waste of time. The way it is set up, it will not, and I repeat, will not make any of us well. It will only continue to rob us and keep us ill. Look at the past 75 years, I can say that because I’m older than that. We are a sick-sick nation because, “Are you ready for this?” because we as a people refuse to obey the laws of God. Oh dear I said it; and I challenge any of you to prove me wrong and I will challenge you right back to read a portion of an Ancient Hebrew document. I have proven it to myself and don’t care to listen to any of your lame duck arguments telling me that there is no God or that those old laws are done away. You can just take that and shove it where you can’t see it.

If you would just get your nose into it and do some study and research you would find the answers to the full host of the problems of humanity. Don’t even mention that those laws are done away with and of no effect. Those are arguments of dottering old fools that refuse to Honor and Obey God. They are all a bunch of jerks that are misleading mankind and need to have a little correction; and that correction is on its way. If you think what I’m saying isn’t true, look about you and what do you see? A gigantic host of sick people; mentally and physically; and this goes for our present government officials, they all belong in mental institutions.

If you would care to look it up and I hope you do and try to prove me wrong, you can refer to this Ancient Manuscript in a book called Deuteronomy. Actually the whole book is worthwhile making a study to improve your understanding of health laws and learn how to live a healthy happy life. However I would like to be a little more specific.

Deuteronomy 30 (King James Version)

Deuteronomy 30 v 1-20

1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

4 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

11 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.

12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.

15 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

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The Future Of Aqua-Ponics

2009-07-19T12:10:00.000-07:00

When things go terribly wrong, we need to get back to the basics. Strange as it seems, the basics is food; how we grow it, handle it, and prepare it to eat. I’m glad to say that there is a revolution happening in the food industry and you can become part of the correction, or you can remain part of the problem. Why do I say this? The answer is simple, our basic food supply is denuded of the nutrients that we really need to keep well, and we are a sick world. The nutrients and vitamins are raped from the products and sold separately for more money on their bottom line. The food industry needs desperately to be returned to the family and the family needs to be educated how to enjoy doing this.

It is vital that every family organization in a unified way study and learn how to grow their own super food stuff. I am talking about “Aqua-Ponics”. This is a very new revolutionary method of raising your own super foods in a very economical manner and with ease, once you have installed the equipment to do it. The payoff will be in good health for your entire family, and who knows, maybe a new family industry for you; and it won’t be done by hard labor.

“Aqua-Ponics” is a symbiotic system of raising fish in a separate tank and using the water to pass through the root system of your plants, and vise versa. The plant filtered water then passing back to the fish tank. It’s really simple in design and concept which needs very little monitoring. However it does need daily checking to be sure the chemical levels are optimized. It takes very little adjusting. After you learn what to look for, it becomes a daily breeze to run your system. If you are running a commercial system, then it takes a little closer watching because it would just be larger.

I can foresee when all the county seats and large cities will have a farmers market with all Aqua-Ponic food products simply because of their far greater superiority over all other food products. Individual families will feed their produce into the local farmers markets. That will produce a way of life far superior to what we have now. Taking your produce to market and also do your family and personally required grocery marketing. You would have the very best of the very best to select from. The stuff thrown away will be better than the best of today’s food industries.

Families will find themselves with the time to invest in ventures to exploit their individual talents. Which of course will be very diverse. It will be a system that will excel in everything they put their mind and hands to developing. Art works of all forms, services, studies and etc. This type of society will be able to excel in producing masters of all that they do.

This type of living will change our landscapes into a paradise of beauty to eventually spread and be seen around the world. It will far surpass the blight that our modern industry has fostered on to us. It will require that each family take into their own hands the responsibility of contributing to the community and in return receive life abundantly. The interesting thing about this way of life, is that it will be a life of family giving, instead of the industrial taking. It will truly become a life of abundance. You can become a part of it.

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Aqua-Ponics

2009-07-18T19:04:00.000-07:00

Aqua-ponics: There is a revolution in garden farming and fish farming. It is really a win-win situation.

What is the definition of aqua-ponics? Aqua-ponics is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a re-circulating environment. The definition of symbiotic being: entities living in a close relationship for the mutual benefit but not always. Sometimes it turns out to be destructive for one or the other. With the relationship of plants and fish it is found that it is very beneficial for both the plants and the fish to thrive seperately in the same circulating water.

Water from the fish tanks contains nutrients given off by the fish and the plants thrive on them when the nutrient filled water is filtered by the plants then circulated back to the fish. Water from the plant containers then get circulated back to the fish which has been oxygenated by the plants. All that is required is then to feed the fish. Viola! A double barreled shotgun. It’s a win-win situation. On a family or commercial basis it is truly a blessing.

Number one: Your food will be organic. The nutrition of the food will be greatly increased over conventional methods.

Number two: Your water bill for the same amount of gardening will be greatly reduced by as much as 70% or more.

Number three: Your tank cleaning problems for raising fish will be over. The way fish farming is today, waste from the fish is a tremendous problem.

At what ever level, it is now more important than ever to zero in on the developments of this enterprise and take The Old Yankee Ingenuity and charge with it. The food production of vegetables alone is 10 times greater than the conventional methods. I can envision the fulfillment of the Ancient Hebrew Prophecy in Psalms:

Psalm 1 (King James Version) Psalm 1 v 1-6:

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

It appears to me that we are seeing a glimpse into our very near future. It seems very workable and what we need to be about is getting ready for it by learning all we can about it and preparing our own part in it.

YouTube has some marvelous videos on it and there are a few very educational short presentations showing how this type of system could be set up on a family level as well as a commercial level.

I for one am all for it and I vividly see our future in it and hope you all go for it. Learn and do what you can to return this nation and world back on the road to freedom from starvation. This is our God given purpose.

Thank you: Brad Vigansky

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2009-07-18T05:13:00.000-07:00

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Raising Chickens and Many Other Things

2009-07-17T12:02:00.000-07:00

When I was growing up on a farm in South West Michigan I ventured into many of the following aspects of small farming. It’s really too bad that this isn’t in existence today on a much larger scale. Actually a small 10 acre farm can be very profitable. Hard work but profitable. You can develop many streams of income that feed into each other. For example, chickens supply a very high quality of valuable manure that is very usable in your gardening ventures. In turn your garden can supply an overabundance of food for your chickens. Chickens love many fresh fruits and vegetables and in turn help to keep your feed bill down.

You can become self sufficient Keeping And Raising Chickens And Poultry. Build A Chicken Coop. Growing Your Own Fruit And Vegetables. Beekeeping (Honey Bees). Herbal Remedies, Herbs, Hydroponic Gardening Garden. Building Your Own Greenhouse and etc.

We even had honeybees and had our own honey. However I developed an allergy to the sting of the honeybee. I became deathly ill at the age of about 5 or 6, then again at about the age of 14. So that is one hobby or project that I keep away from, even though I am very interested in it.

I did get into raising chickens from the egg to the full grown chicken. My incubators were some healthy setting hens. With some good hens, it really isn’t much of a problem going from the egg to the little chick. In pioneer times that’s how it was done. If I were to get back to raising chickens, I would start the same way with about a half dozen setting hens and a rooster. Believe me when the chicks arrive the roosters are as proud and so are the mothers or clucks. A good rooster with his harem will take real good care of their flock. My hens and rooster were very successful at raising flocks of 60 plus chickens.

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Secrets Of The Bonsai Masters

2009-07-17T10:52:00.000-07:00

When I was in my early teens over 50 years ago I began to study and work with developing and growing Bonsai Trees. At that time I wasn’t disciplined enough to make it a success. My adult skills just were not developed enough. Needless to say my project was a gigantic flop, due primarily to neglect.

I am now a part time hobby nursery gardener and am specializing in 4 different plants. They are the Desert Rose, Pentas, Plumeria Frangipani, and Croton. It will take a blog or two to write about each one and some more blogs to write about some others that I have in my collection. I have somewhere between 35 or 40 varieties in my nursery. You never stop at just one.

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North American Wild Quinine

2009-07-15T13:12:00.000-07:00

In the Eastern and Mid West part of North America you can grow own Wild Quinine which is good for a fever. Just make a little tea from the roots. Wild Quinine is a native perennial plant found growing wild in prairies, rock outcrops, waste places and roadsides from Maryland to Minnesota and Georgia and as far west as Wisconsin and Arkansas. Once established along one of your fences it will maintain itself if it is native to your area. It would be well worth your time to encourage it to grow on your farm or lot. A word of caution: This plant may become weedy or invasive in some regions or habitats and may displace desirable vegetation if not properly managed.

Unless you already have Wild Quinine growing in your area and you want to try raising your own Wild Quinine it is suggested that you sow the seed in spring in a greenhouse. When they are large enough to handle, put the seedlings into individual pots and grow them inside the greenhouse for at least their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. Plant them out of the way along a fence line but where they will be easily accessible.

Wild Quinine grows to a height of about three feet and has alternate, long rough, hairy, serrated and lancolate, leaves that are often over a foot in length at the base. Leaves grow smaller and more sessile, as they ascend up the rough, round, stem, which branches at the flowers top. The flowers bloom from June to Aug. they are small, white and daisy-like, having 5 tiny white rays or petals and growing in numerous clusters, appearing to be an unorganized umbelli ferae. Wild Quinine has large, swollen, dark brown roots it grows first vertically and then may expand horizontally. Collect flowering tops and roots, dry for later herb use. The plant is not edible.

Wild Quinine is a very valuable medicinal plant. It is used as or is a medicine which possesses the power of arresting morbid periodical menstral movements. Also Which is to say wild quinine promotes menstrual discharge. A poultice made from the fresh leaves can be applied to burns. The root is used in the treatment of inflammation of the urinary passages and kidneys, or amenorrhea the: absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow.

A poultice can be made for stomach aches by steaming a half cup of leaves and applying the leaves to the area when they are as hot as you can tolerate. Capsules are available at health food stores that can be taken daily as an effective way to control allergies.

It has traditionally been used in alternative medicine to treat debility, fatigue, respiratory infection, gastrointestinal infection, and venereal disease. Wild Quinine is currently being used with great success by hundreds of herbalists throughout the United States and Europe for diseases such as lymphatic congestion, colds, ear infections, sore throats, fevers, infections, and Epstein barr virus. The tops of the plant have a medicinal "quinine-like" bitterness and are used to treat intermittent fevers. This earned the plant one of its common names, "wild quinine." Parthenium has been studied in scientific laboratories and clinics across Europe. Findings from these studies indicate that this medicinal herb stimulates the immune system. This herb also contains the four esters which increase the ability of the blood cells to digest foreign particles and aid in the stages of healing wounds in living organisms. It appears to be a liver-stimulating bitter that promotes blood detoxification; thus the common name "snakeroot." Parthenium* has also been shown to both mobilize and activate natural killer cells and other immune cells. Wild Quinine herb has been commonly sold as (or mixed with) Echinacea purpurea for more than 50 years. They are both in the sunflower family and their roots bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. Many people have been using these parthenium* products, however, and receiving benefits.

*Noun1.Parthenium - small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers

The American Indians used Wild Quinine as a poultice on burns and also used it as a tea for coughs and sore throats

Recipe for Wild Quinine Tea (Medicinal)
Take one teaspoon of dried root and add 8oz of boiling water and steep for 10 minutes. Drink warm at bed time.

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Raising your own Garlic

2009-07-14T19:55:00.000-07:00

Planting and raising garlic is quite easy. All you need is a little energy and a spade or shovel with which to dig. You will also need some cloves of garlic. I get mine from the health food store and buy the organic garlic. One of the reasons to avoid the regular grocery stores is because imported foods get nuked when entering the country and it effectively kills the plant in the bulbs. You should get a dozen to a dozen and a half cloves from one garlic bulb. So a handful of bulbs will plant quite a full garden.

You’ll want to plant the clove with the point end sticking up. The pointed end is where the leaves will grow and the other end, the bottom is where the roots will grow. Put the clove into a hole about 2 inches deep with the root end down and cover lightly. A scoop of chicken litter will give your garlic a push and produce excellently for you. Chicken litter is a strong fertilizer, so use it sparingly or you will burn your plants.

Be sure to keep your garlic well watered, but not soggy. Here in Florida plant your garlic in the fall, about October. When the garlic is ready to harvest, it will look like your plants are dying; but relax, you have successfully grown garlic!

Dig up the garlic and dry completely and store in a cool, dry spot. If it is too warm or moist, the garlic will begin growing. Don’t be surprised if the garlic starts growing in your refrigerator. When it reaches that stage, just dig another hole, plant it and harvest another batch later at the end of the season.

The aristocrats are the ones responsible for garlic falling into disuse and I find it disgusting. Garlic is probably one of the most important plants that you will ever use. Learn more about why you should raise and eat garlic on a daily basis.

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Why Garlic For Your Garden?

2009-07-14T17:02:00.000-07:00

Why you should be raising garlic in your garden.

For one thing it makes a good companion planting to keep away certain pests. But the reason that I want to talk about garlic is that once you find out how important it is to include in your diet and how important it is for your family in maintaining your good health you will want the following information about garlic.

Sometimes we get so busy with life that we forget some of the early health remedies that really worked. A little research on the internet will reveal a wealth of information about the cures of garlic. They are truly amazing. As you search you will run across things like vinegar, yogurt and a few other common items that we have really forgotten their very important use in maintaining our health. When you find out all you should know about garlic you will want to include lots of it in your garden for your own family use.

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Releive the symptoms of coughs and colds without drugs and drowsiness.
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TriVita Stevia, How To Grow Your Own For Your Health And Wellness | 200

2009-01-30T02:05:00.000-08:00

TriVita Stevia is a healthier alternative to sugar, it nourishes the pancreas and won’t cause tooth decay It will nutritionally support healthy digestion and gastrointestinal functions.

Growing and Using Stevia which is called : The Sweet Herb. Stevia rebaudiana is a plant, native to Paraguay and Brazil in South America. Stevia is a broad classification of plants. Rebaudiana is the species name. Remember that name because it is the only species, out of the many found contains the high concentration of sweet glycosides making this sweet leaf such a useful and amazingly wonderful herb.

The dried leaf, in fact, is 10-15 times sweeter than cane sugar! Powdered stevia leaf, known as green stevia powder, may be found for sale at natural food stores or online while waiting for your first harvest. However, if you are looking for more stevia information you can order liquid Stevia right here at the bottom of this article.

Stevia is not particularly a showy plant but its sweet taste is its most desirable feature. The plant reaches about a height of about 2 feet. It is a perennial but tender plant and will survive where winters are mild. The stevia leaves are small and narrow, notched on the end. The leaves are much sweeter than the stems. The stevia blooms are white and tiny but so abundant that the plant looks like a greenish white cloud when in bloom Farther north than zone 8 stevia may be grown as an annual.

Stevia will do well in most soils, however it prefers a sandy loam with a good amount of organic matter. It’s home area the soils are a little on the acid side but will tolerate a wide range of soil pH. Stevie likes constantly moist soil, but not watter logged. Watering is essential unless substantial rains come every week. The short days of late fall will cause the stevia plant to blossom.

You can grow stevia from seeds or cuttings from other plants. If you are lucky and know somebody with a stevia plant, you might be able to get some cuttings for your own experimenting. If you want to order some seeds you could go to steviaseed dot com and check it out.

I will be doing some experimenting with the stevia cultivation next spring and will keep you posted to the results. I will be starting them from seeds. If you live in a cold climate you can start your stevia seed under a fluorescent light several weeks before transplanting outside. Stevia is vulnerable to cold temperatures so be sure all sign of frost is past before you transplant outside. Harden the plants at least 5 or 6 days before transplanting. Bring the plants indoors on cold nights. Transplant on a cloudy day. You should put the plant a little deeper than it is growing in its container. They are best kept in beds in rows easy for maintaining, staggering the plants. Plant 12 to 18 inches apart. Using a little much around the plant will prevent drying out during sunny days. Water the plants with gentle soaking right after transplanting.

Stevia plants are brittle and tend to break in the wind. If they break, use the broken stem to start additional plants. When the main shoots are 8 to 12 inches tall pinch off the end and this will encourage branching. When the secondary branches reach 8 to 10 inches long, pinch the ends off to encourage tertiary branching. The pruned leaves are good to eat right on the spot. I’ll have to try them in my salads. Fresh and dried leaves are good for tea.

If you are energetic you can dig up plants and bring indoors for winter use. A fluorescent grow light will work well. The plants tend to look half dead by the end of winter but will sprout and grow back nicely in the spring.

Late winter and early spring are the best time for taking cuttings for propagation. However you must have at least 16 hours of lighting per day to encourage rooting. The cuttings should be at least 4 inches long with at least two leaf buds above ground. Transplant to a larger pot after rooted plant starts to grow. (About 2 to 4 weeks) Then in about a month you will be able to transplant outside, if your timing is right.

You can harvest the stevia leaves through the summer as required. The best quality harvest is just as the plants start their blossoming in the fall. Depending on how you want to develop your plants will determine how you will harvest them. If you leave the stock plant to remain over winter in the gound, you can cut about 2/3 of the stem, leaving about 1/3 for the plant to re-grow. Mixing the stevia leaves with mint make a nice sweet mint tea. Peppermint and spearmint are excellent for this use. The dried leaves of the stevia remain sweet for years. If you use a food dehydrator be sure to dry them on a very low heat. Store the dry heat in air tight containers, preferably glass jars.

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Earthworms and Gardening

2009-01-26T03:13:00.000-08:00

What do earthworms have to do with gardening?

It is my opinion that the earthworm is one of the most valuable free workers that mankind has ever mistreated. The methods of tilling the soil is very destructive to the earthworm. That is a sad commentary that needs attention and a true value put on the little creatures. They burrow into the ground, aerate and fertilize the soil. They put the soil in condition favorable for plants to grow. They are used as fish bait and other animal feed. Even their castings are being sold. I can’t think of any one creature that is more beneficial to mankind. Maybe except for the honey bee. This could be another symbiotic operation in gardening and actually many farmers do supplement their income in raising the honeybee, which is another topic.

I live here in Florida and the climate is not very suitable for the earthworms and neither is the soil suitable for the worms. They are absent from my garden. However this last year I have been working with commercial potting soil and have noticed that earthworms came with it. The nice thing about it they seemed to thrive in my pots. These were the ones that were in the shade and watered very regularly.

I have since learned that people do raise earthworms here in Florida but you need to take a couple precautions. They need a shady area and a cover or roof to keep off the excessive downpours that we have here occasionally. Then we have extreme dry seasons, that would require daily watering to keep the worms moist.

The very nice feature about raising earthworms is the fact that earthworm casting can be easily collected for organic fertilizer. The way to do that is to put your worms into a prepared bed of peat moss. Then about every 6 months roll back the peat moss with a fork or stiff rake and there are your castings ready to be shoveled out. All you need do after cleaning out the castings from the worm bed is to put the peat moss back in place and add a new layer of peat moss on the top. Presto your little money makers are ready to reproduce more new worms and castings. If you have excess worms, just sell them. There is a market for them, and there is also a market for the castings as organic fertilizer.

My personal feeling about doing this is all the benefits that it will add to your life and my life. Since I am raising plants, this will furnish me with free fertilizer for my plants. I will have a symbiotic operation that will help to sustain each part of my gardening and worm farming efforts. The worms should more than pay for the cost of raising and furnishing you with free organic fertilizer. Personally I think it’s a win-win situation. As a hobby the problem that I will have will be in containing the size of the operation.

Grow Light And Plant Cuttings

2008-12-28T22:30:00.000-08:00

December 2008, Port Charlotte Florida

Right now I am experimenting with rooting cuttings of a few different garden plants. This is December in Florida and it has been cool, however it is warming up quite a bit. I am using a grow light in my house and have selected croton, which is doing very well under the grow light. Within three weeks the croton is rooting. So far I have transplanted one into a pot with regular soil prepared for the transplants. I will be transplanting two more in a few days because they have started to root. It’s a new variety that I want to get stocked up with in order to have stock plants for more cuttings.

I am also experimenting with leaf cuttings of the Kalanchoe plant. Although these plants are beautiful they are deadly. They are not safe to have around children and animals especially dogs.

I had bad luck with trying to root the passion flower. At first it seemed to be doing well, then something happened, it may have been due to contamination of the container; I‘m going to sterilize it and try again. I have a very vigorous passion flower growing on my fence in my back yard and started cuttings from it early last fall and they are doing well.

I have about a hundred croton plants that I started from cuttings of various varieties. They are doing really well and now I have to consider just how I’m going to manage them this spring. I need to develop a planting arrangement for the landscape and still have sufficient stock plants for propagation. That’s going to be a neat trick to pull off, especially with the limited space that I have. I‘m also going to be working with other plants to include with the project; one is the springeri fern that will make a nice addition. I want to keep only one for seed. One plant will produce all the seed that I can handle. I have multiplied these plants from division but choose to grow from seed. They are easy to take care of as seedlings and will take a little longer to grow, but that’s ok. Within a year I’ll have all the stock that I’ll need. That way I’ll have a variety of different sizes to sell and use for Rosie’s landscaping business.

I also have one Foxtail Springeri in a large pot that I hope to have produce seed. So far it has blossomed but it didn’t produce seed. I’m hoping that this spring it will bloom again and this time with a little luck and the right insects to pollinate them I’ll get some viable seed from them.

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2008-12-15T04:58:00.000-08:00

Growing and Using Stevia which is called : The Sweet Herb.

Stevia rebaudiana is a plant, native to Paraguay and Brazil in South America. Stevia is a broad classification of plants. Rebaudiana is the species name. Remember that name because it is the only species, out of the many found contains the high concentration of sweet glycosides making this sweet leaf such a useful and amazingly wonderful herb. The dried leaf, in fact, is 10-15 times sweeter than cane sugar! Powdered stevia leaf, known as green stevia powder, may be found for sale at natural food stores or online while waiting for your first harvest. However, if you are looking for more stevia information you can order liquid Stevia right here at the bottom of this article.

You can harvest the stevia leaves through the summer as required. The best quality harvest is just as the plants start their blossoming in the fall. Depending on how you want to develop your plants will determine how you will harvest them. If you leave the stock plant to remain over winter in the gound, you can cut about 2/3 of the stem, leaving about 1/3 for the plant to re-grow. Mixing the stevia leaves with mint make a nice sweet mint tea. Peppermint and spearmint are excellent for this use. The dried leaves of the stevia remain sweet for years. If you use a food dehydrator be sure to dry them on a very low heat. Store the dry stevia in air tight containers, preferably glass jars.

If you don’t want to go through all the trouble of gardening and raising your own stevia plants, you will find that stevia sweetener is a wonderful product and you can order stevia right here.

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Butterfly Garden vs: Nursery Garden

2008-10-14T05:41:00.000-07:00

Since my nursery garden has occupied a great deal of my time this summer, I still haven’t given up on the butterfly aspect of my garden. I still have a devoted area set aside for the butterflies. Although I did discontinue raising the milkweed plants I still have other plants that are also beneficial to the butterflies. At there is a general improvement in the appearance of my garden. By getting rid of the milkweed plants, I have successfully gotten rid of the Mexican beetle that was devouring the plants before the butterfly larvae could benefit from them.

Since my hobby of a plant nursery is somewhat stabilized, I have a little more room for more plants, but that will develop now over a slower pace. My next step is to begin working with cell culture in developing new plants. I’m not sure yet if I will start it this late in the season or not. I may wait until next spring when the weather will be more acceptable for developing this hobby.

I have some lantana plants in my butterfly area and they are somewhat of a problem. I planned on using them for base stock for cuttings, but they are a very intrusive plant with vines going all over. I haven’t quite made up my mind what I’m going to do about them. They are beautiful, but a problem. In Texas we treated them as weeds.

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Croton Cuttings

2008-10-13T05:50:00.000-07:00

When I moved to Florida 20 years ago I had never heard of a croton plant. My neighbor had one and I just thought ho hum and never got interested in them. It wasn’t until my daughter started a landscaping business that I began toying around with the idea of beginning a hobby of raising some plants. Together we have observed and learned what people are using in their landscapes and I began to experiment with several plants. It is then that I began to get interested in the croton. Although it is not native to Southwest Florida I decided to go with it because it is not invasive and does very well in this climate and is quite hardy to the weather extremes.

I began to visit my neighbors with my garden clippers and over this past summer have gathered about 100 cuttings from various species of the croton plants that are doing well in this neighborhood. I have about 80 growing croton plants in my inventory and have some more coming on from some fresh cuttings.

I have experimented enough with cuttings from the croton plant that I have a very specific procedure in producing the rooted plants. I will go into more detail later on the specifics but will mention that the first few I trimmed the excess leaves so that they wouldn‘t take up much room in my plant rooting box. Then I did a batch of cuttings where I only removed the lower leaves and left all the top leaves whole. They take up more room but the results were startlingly different. The untrimmed ones are doing much better and are exceeding the growth of the trimmed ones. However it is a little more work for the first month because of the cuttings having no roots you must mist the leaves so that they will survive the heat and absorb moisture and survive and grow roots. Here in Florida we have an advantage over the snowbirds in the north because we have a much longer growing season and with care can get double the growth over the north’s shorter growing season.

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More Information About My Garden

2008-10-11T18:34:00.000-07:00

I lived in Michigan for the first 50 years of my life and have always been exposed to gardens, my own and others. The biggest problem that I had in Michigan was taking care of all the excess produce that was produced in my little back yard garden. Most of the plants were very productive in the fall of the year, September, October and November. My garden saved me a lot of money on my grocery bill.

Gardening here in Florida, for me is another story. Because of year around warm weather the bugs here are a terrible problem. I have gone from the butterfly garden to a nursery garden, a small scale process of producing several new plants for my daughters use in her landscaping business. Right now I am using the cutting method of producing the plants required and it is working pretty well. As a hobby I would like to branch into experimenting with in-vitro cell reproduction from parent stock. Just in the thinking stage at this time, however the expensive labs for in-vitro cell reproduction has moved into the kitchen and is becoming available to people that are interested in experimenting and developing their abilities in plant production and reproduction. If you are interested in this and would like more information click here on this link.

After I get set up and have experimented with their recommended plant The African Violet, I want to continue with the Plumeria Frangipani which is the Hawaiian flowers that they use to make their Leigh’s. After being successful with the Plumeria I want to experiment with the croton plant. From there who knows. With my failing eyesight I don’t know if I will be able to do what it takes to get cultures to grow.

As it is right now I have variety of about 30+ different plants that I’m working with and experimenting just to see what I can do with them. I have a total of about 450 plants all at various stages of development. I am working with primarily native plants of this area that will do well in this harsh climate. Yes I said harsh, at different times of the year is is arid, cold, hot, rainy and to the extreme. It’s a very challenging hobby but very interestin.

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My Nursery Garden

2008-10-10T09:18:00.000-07:00

For three years I tried to have a butterfly garden and loved it except for the Mexican beetle that attacked the milk weed plants that I was raising for the butterflies. Things change so has my gardening. My youngest daughter Rosemarie has a landscaping business and I am raising some of the plants that she will be using. It’s kind of like a family enterprise which is by the way a home based business.

I am still encouraging the butterflies and I think I can be successful in combining the efforts of a small nursery operation and still have a butterfly garden. I’m working at it. I am primarily interested in raising the Plumeria Frangipani. I have about a dozen of them started; they are the flowers that they use to make the Hawaiian Leigh’s. I also am very interested in the Croton, a plant primarily raised in the tropics. I have about 80 crotons started and doing well.

At this time my inventory of plants is quite small but I have a few of several varieties. Some I am experimenting with to learn how to take care of them. I will be working with the kind of plants that require little attention and can do well in this very hot climate. The climate alternates between being excessively wet to excessively dry. This year it has been near normal. When it rains the weeds and grass really grow fast. During the dry seasons and it has been excessively dry for about 3 years. I work with plants that tolerate the extreme climate and will do well when transferred locally to another garden or field.

Since this is a home based business, that’s what I’m about. If you would like to know more about it go to the links at the bottom of this article.

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