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Not mine! But I wish :-) Source: Ducklings! They are at Diane Kennedy’s. For the full details see the “source” above. Diane has worked incredibly hard to have a wonderful permaculture demonstration garden. She runs tours regularly and if you … Continue reading →

Legendary punk rocker Alice Bag has been carrying the torch for sharp feminist outspokenness since she helped pioneer the L.A. punk scene in the 1970s, so it’s hard to believe she’s just now releasing her first solo album. As an … Continue reading →

Out looking at _my_ pond0 this time and was observing all the diving beetles, water boatman, and diving beetle larvae. Tons of predators for mosquito larvae. Did you know that some frog tadpoles eat mosquito _larvae_? It made me think … Continue reading →

If the fish don’t get you the diving beetles will. https://youtu.be/XGWY35IRGn4 https://youtu.be/-S_2jE7CHsM Here are two beetle larvae fighting over the same mosquito larvae. Owwww Bob www.PuraVidaAquatic.com Spread the Good News Below: Permaculture!    

Diving beetle larva from my pond0. I went and got them some mosquito larvae. https://youtu.be/M4FdxcqY8Jw I actually have to grow mosquito larvae for testing and in some cases food. One way to do this is to take a bucket, add … Continue reading →

So I’ve been poking around investigating various additives that can be put into a swimming pool and I came across “chlorine stabilizer” and I start thinking “chemically what the heck would stabilize chlorine?” Well it turns out that they use … Continue reading →

The goldfish have been laying eggs non-stop for 2 months now :-) https://youtu.be/wdDETu-DJUo https://youtu.be/_jLR-s8TI-o I wish they’d stop. I’m wasting too much time watching them :-) Bob www.PuraVidaAquatic.com Spread the Good News Below: Permaculture!    

Wonderful group of people on Facebook concerned about their kids, the environment, and the good things in the world. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10209505493372900&id=1193404768 Spread the Good News Below: Permaculture!    

Okay…. look, my fellow humans, permaculturists, and thinkers, could we maybe get better at looking at the irony in ourselves. Could we stop screaming “I hate Hate Radio” and try to just turn it off and do something positive. I … Continue reading →

Permaculture is about living with the world and not against it and treating others as you would like those upstream from you to treat you. There is nothing sustainable in the behavior that leads to Walter Scott’s death. http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/11/us/north-charleston-police-michael-slager-indicted-walter-scott-shooting/ Maybe … Continue reading →