Aquaponics & How it Works – Layman’s Version

 

Basic Concept

Aquaponics is a food production system based upon mother-nature’s own method of recycling fish waste by feeding it to plants. In a nutshell, that’s the bare-bones definition. You should also know it is highly adaptable to home-based use, is low maintenance, produces very high amount of food/area (food density), and requires very little external inputs.

How it Works – Layman’s Version

Live fish are grown in a tank. Tank water, which contains fish waste, is pumped from the tank to grow-beds. Grow beds are simple containers filled with gravel and which have plants planted in them on top. Gravel in the grow beds will naturally come to host bacterial colonies which will convert fish waste into plant food. Plants consume the food, water is returned to the fish tank via gravity, and you get to eat organically grown fruits, vegetables, and fish. The fish are happy because their water is kept clean. The plants are happy and grow quickly because they are receiving nutrients 24/7, and you should be happy and healthy having access to home-grown, organically produced food. The only external inputs to the system are electricity and fish food – however even the fish food can be system-grown.

How it Works – Detailed Explanation

You need not understand anything more than the layman’s explanation above in order to get started with Aquaponics. However, a little more knowledge certainly doesn’t hurt and will help you understand how the system works.

Aquaponics takes advantage of mother-nature’s own methods to convert fish waste into plant food. At the heart of this system is what is commonly referred to as the Nitrogen Cycle.

Nitrogen is an essential element necessary for life on Earth as we know it. The Nitrogen Cycle is a series of chemical processes whereby nitrogen from the environment is consumed by living organisms and processed into various different nitrogen-based chemical forms. This is accomplished via a chain of living organisms, each utilizing nitrogen in some way to live, and converting it into another nitrogen-based chemical structure which is then needed by another organism. In this way, nitrogen is continually cycled from the environment, through the biological system, and back into the environment.

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Peak Certainty, Food Resilience, and Aquaponics | Peak Prosperity.

A New Way to Hold Gold (2015 Update)

What if you could carry and exchange gold in the exact same manner as you do with the dollar bills in your wallet?

Last year, we introduced the precious metals community to a company called Valaurum, which has developed a technology that’s making this possible.

Here’s the write-up from last year:

Updates and New Information

I don’t update that frequently as I like to be careful with information I post. Folks might rely on my posts for their lives, and the lives of their families, so I put myself in their shoes, and handle posting with responsibility to get info that’s as accurate as I can possibly get and be sure of.

On to the fun stuff…

Now, this is something Husband and I have been experimenting with for a while, and while our work is somewhat experimental in reegards to seeking improvements, the basics plan works and works well enough.

Aquaponics gardening is a growing trend that allows families to create a self-sustaining environment that grows vegetables, fruits, flowers and more with as little maintenance as possible.

The first time I was told about aquaponics gardening, I thought it was going to be very dirty and moldy but was pleasantly surprised to find that it wasn’t like that at all. Aquaponics gardens can be as small or as large as you’d like it to be. They create enough food in a small space and require very little maintenance.

“Aquaponics is a cultivation of fish and plants together in a constructed, recirculating ecosystem utilizing natural bacterial cycles to convert fish waste to plant nutrients. This is an environmentally friendly, natural food-growing method that harnesses the best attributes of aquaculture and hydroponics without the need to discard any water or filtrate or add chemical fertilizers.”

http://www.patriotnetdaily.com/what-is-aquaponic-gardening/

There’s lush green lettuce, plump tomatoes and fragrant basil all growing in a bed of water in a 2, 000-sq-ft (about 186 square meters) greenhouse in Toronto, the largest city of Canada.

It’s all part of a pilot project an urban farmer is hoping will help showcase the benefits of a waste-free system which combines aquaculture and hydroponics. He’s hoping the large-scale commercial aquaponics farm he built nearly two months ago will help persuade others into making the switch from conventional farming.

http://www.patriotnetdaily.com/aquaponics-farm-showcases-farming-of-the-future/

But for millions of us, especially if we live in the city, in an apartment or a condo with a patio, or a home on a postage stamp sized lot-which is what even single family homes seem to all be built on these days, how do you supplement your purchased groceries with home grown? With a little creativity, it is possible.

http://www.patriotnetdaily.com/small-garden-ideas-gardening-in-small-places/

WATER is a survival priority. In fact, generally we cannot survive much longer than 3 days without it. A very small number of people have been known to survive for up to a week without water under special circumstances, but this has been a rare exception.

Knowing this, one would think that WATER is a top priority for most preppers. Unfortunately, it often is not. It is often overlooked because most of us have such ready access to it nearly everywhere we go. It comes out of our faucet, we can buy it in stores, it’s in lakes, rivers and streams, and it rains (in most places)…

Stop to think about it though, because there are situations where your access to fresh clean drinking water could diminish or disappear.

http://www.patriotnetdaily.com/water-sources-and-treatment/

Now, here’s some useful info that works now, and post-collapse.

http://www.myfamilysurvivalplan.com/50-emergency-apps-turn-phone-life-saving-device/

http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/how-to-make-hobo-stove-zmaz84zloeck.aspx

http://www.myfamilysurvivalplan.com/make-pemmican-ultimate-survival-super-food/

Meet The First Native Nations

I’ve been speaking about them for a while, but saying Little (as per the expressed wishes of the Council) but I can now open the purse strings a bit more about information. Husband is FNN, as am I, but there are serious limits of information we possess for obvious reasons of security and I am just fine with that arrangement…what I do not know, I can not accidentally betray.

1; The First Native Nations was founded immediately after WW2 by 13 Veterans from assorted Nations from USA and Canada.

2; The FNN takes as it’s Charter the collected documents together referred to as The American Constitution. The reason for such is that in those documents are time proven Truth that relate to all people. However, during any hostilities, the FNN will NOT extend it’s protections to enemies with an intent Contrary to The Constitution.

3; The FNN is media-apathetic. I am IT and all there is as far their ‘media presence’ goes. This comes from decades and decades of Native American concerns being unheard, or just dismissed without discussion. The FNN has NO interest in media, but does monitor it all closely. Also, they have seen how a ‘media presence’ really can get in the way, and for that point also keep media involvement absolutely minimized.

4; The FNN is absolutely and Determinedly anti-Leftist. Founded by Veterans, they SAW what Leftism did in the form of Hitler, and the later Democides of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.. They KNOW very well, as has been Proven, that Leftism inevitably leads to the deaths of Millions via Democide. Before that, Leftist appeasers led the world into WW2, and there’s also that bit about how the Democratic Party of the USA is intimately connected with KKK.This is also a key reason why the Constitution is also the FNN’s Charter.

5; The FNN’s Major focus is on the Preservation, Protection and ‘re-kindling’ of the cultures of The Nations of The First Peoples. UNLIKE AIM, the FNN operates largely Anonymously to fund, encourage, and remove obstacles to such. They do not ‘pimp’ Native culture. They are Traditionalists, but also keenly mindful of the modern world and the realities within it.

6; The FNN is not ‘Militant’, but possess ParaMilitary/Militia aspects. They are such as the Sword & Shield of The Nations vs ANY future attempts to harm, damage, destroy, exterminate the cultures or peoples of The Nations. We, The People of The Nations have LEARNED what happens when we trust ‘government’, and will NOT trust ‘government’ with the safety of what very precious little remains of our Traditional Culture, especially the safety of our children in whom are our Hopes for the future as the People of The Nations.
And needless to say, our trust in ‘government’ has been even further eroded in light of recent land-thefts/treaty violations by obama’s admin.
The FNN does not, and will not engage in terrorist actions vs. Civilians. There are in fact very gravely-deterring penalties for such in the FNN. It is NOT done, it is NOT tolerated. That said, the FNN council are the Final deciders of who is listed as terrorists in the perception of the FNN, and while some remove Boko Haram and Hamas from their lists of terror organizations, the FNN will not do so as at minimum such are criminal organizations of extremely vicious nature with no regard for Human life.

7; The FNN is also very focussed on Sovereignty for the Nations, and intends to accomplish this via energy http://blackwinterenergy.blogspot.ca/2013/07/backwinter-system-diagram-open-source.html and Infrastructure projects to improve quality of life for those on Treaty lands/Reservations, along a principle of Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency. Including our OWN banks, backed by precious metals so that any deposits made ARE suddenly something Real, and not just cheap paper backed by nothing except digital code, however a way of tying the proposed Banks to Digital Currency is being developed. The convenience of D-Currency, with the solid security of genuine Backing.
The FNN is also entering the world’s Diplomatic networks, slowly, with small and cautious steps, this is something that the People Of The Nations should have done long ago, and a step that is necessary as Native Americans have earned the right to a voice in International dealings and goings-on and possess that right innately as a Bona Fide indigenous People.
Perhaps we will even mint our own coins, passports, and related documents.

8; The FNN is in NO way affiliated with the criminals and criminality of AIM, and never will be. AIM has done as much, or more, harm to The Peoples Of The Nations than the time of our being pushed to extinction. There is ample proof to support such claims. AIM has engaged in assaults ve. unarmed people and other actions that could be called ‘terrorism’, and AIM’s history of such forever means that it will never be viewed as anything but inimical and with great suspicion by the FNN.

This Is How The US Government Convinces A Newspaper To Kill A Story

This Is How The US Government Convinces A Newspaper To Kill A Story

Source: Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, by Mike Krieger

Under President George W. Bush, the White House urged reporters to withhold accounts about many of the most contentious aspects in the war on terrorism: the existence of a secret prison in Thailand, the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation and detention program, warrantless wiretapping and government monitoring of financial transactions.

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Lorne Gunter: Opposing self-defence means opposing democracy itself

The case of Ian Thomson has touched a nerve, and rightly so. Mr. Thomson is the Port Colborne, Ont. man who last August fired warning shots over the heads of masked men who were firebombing his rural home with him in it. His seems a classic case of using justifiable force in self-defence. Indeed, it would have been justified had he fired at – not merely over – his attackers.

Nonetheless, when Mr. Thomson reported the incident to police, he ended up being the one charged – with dangerous use of a firearm.

No God; No U.S. Constitution … Sorry About That

No God; No U.S. Constitution … Sorry About That

– By Jack Curtis –

For straightforward jurisprudential reasons, a post-Christian America shouldn’t expect ongoing protection from the Founders’ United States Constitution; a Creator is required to sustain it. 704 more words

The Conservative Citizen

– By Jack Curtis –

For straightforward jurisprudential reasons, a post-Christian America shouldn’t expect ongoing protection from the Founders’ United States Constitution; a Creator is required to sustain it.

Benjamin Franklin said that the Founders gave us a republic, “… if you can keep it.” John Adams said that our new Constitution was only suitable for: “… a moral and religious people.” And communist China’s Chairman Mao said that power proceeds from the muzzle of a gun.

Now our government wants to deprive us of that source of power. We are no longer a moral and religious people. And Congress has bought the states while its members serve the needs of special interests more than those of citizens; we remain only technically a federal republic. Our reality no longer reflects the Rule of Law, the only legal bond restraining our government.

Sovereignty, as commemorated in the Declaration of Independence, flows…

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Obama’s Domestic Terrorist Foot Soldiers: Black Panthers, OPENLY Armed, Patrolling Streets; Their Nexus With Islamic Jihad! Commentary By Adina Kutnicki

Obama’s Domestic Terrorist Foot Soldiers: Black Panthers, OPENLY Armed, Patrolling Streets; Their Nexus With Islamic Jihad! Commentary By Adina Kutnicki

{An anti-American, anti-western, anti-semitic triad: Nation of Islam’s Farrakhan, Shia’s Ahmadinejad & Black Panther’s Shabazz}

AT a time whereby Islam’s “soldiers for Allah” are exploding all over the world…

Adina Kutnicki

{An anti-American, anti-western, anti-semitic triad: Nation of Islam’s Farrakhan, Shia’s Ahmadinejad & Black Panther’s Shabazz}

AT a time whereby Islam’s “soldiers for Allah” are exploding all over the world, it is not incidental that America’s long-standing domestic terrorists, the Black Panthers (“new” or old, makes no diff), are increasingly invigorated, openly challenging the nation’s underpinnings. More on their nexus – and the connection to Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s “puzzling” (non) reaction to exploding jihad – in a bit. This is not a fairy tale!

NOW, even though their domestic terror supposedly “disbanded” decades ago, that’s the real fairy tale. Yes, they burrowed underground for sundry reasons, but they NEVER disappeared. However, their time “out of sight” must be viewed as an effort at reconstitution and alliance-building. Indeed, their foot soldiers remain in traditional militia garb, while their real leadership don suits and ties. 

The militant New Black Panther Party [NBPP]…

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THE SHADOWS THAT FOLLOW REDUX

The treaties have been a lie- AIM and it’s leadership have been shown to be a lie- it’s time to heal those wounds and move on-time to rid ourselves of their shadow and feel the Sun on our face and the face of our children again.

Rezinate's Blog

Wounds-everyone has been wounded in some way either physically or emotionally during the course of their life -an inevitable part of the human experience.

What wounds one may heal in time and be overcome-while the same wound inflicted upon another may fester as a life long burden, a part of the shadow they cast that follows them everywhere they go.

In addition to individual wounds there are communal, tribal, national, and even global wounds that few if any can escape from.

As nations we inflicted wounds upon others long before they were in turn inflicted upon us with the arrival of the first foreign invaders and the age of steel set foot upon this hemispheres shores.

If theses wounds we inflicted can be remediated in any way all that can be said is that they were localized-they weren’t continental in nature, driven by a desire to own the width and…

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Why Your Home Isn’t Safe From Government Seizure

Ten years after the Supreme Court opened the door for government seizure of your home, cities and counties across the country are getting bolder.

In fact, in one small Indiana town, the mayor even proposed seizing an entire neighborhood – in order to construct private businesses.

On today’s edition of Off The Grid Radio, we take a close look at what is known as eminent domain and what you can do to keep your home if the government comes knocking on your door. It’s a subject that impacts all of us – on- or off-grid.

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Ten years after the Supreme Court opened the door for government seizure of your home, cities and counties across the country are getting bolder. In fact, in one small Indiana town, the mayor even proposed seizing an entire neighborhood – in order to construct private businesses. On today’s edition of Off The Grid Radio, we take a close look at what is known as eminent domain and what you can do to keep your home if the government comes knocking on your door. It’s a subject that impacts all of us – on- or off-grid. Phil Applebaum of the Institute for Justice tells us: Whether there are legitimate, legal reasons for the seizure of your home. How some towns are violating their own state laws in an effort to seize homes. What the Constitution (surprisingly) says about eminent domain. How some states have fought back against the Supreme Court’s…

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