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

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

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

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.

1. 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.
2. Your food will be organic. Organic food produces better health. You know that your food is fresh and it will taste much better.
3. You will not need fertilizer, all you will need is fish food.
4. 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.
5. Your only time requirement on a daily basis is less than 15 minutes of checking to make sure everything is functioning properly.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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

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

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

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

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