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Okay, I’m going to yell at you. Yes you, the reader of this page. Some of you seem to believe that permaculture is simply a cheap, easy way of doing things. I don’t believe that for a second. I don’t … Continue reading →

http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2014-04-pesticide-pushers-spin-the-bee-crisis-to-protect-protect-profits Everybody looking at this Facebook page needs to read this all the way through! The comparison of the pesticide companies and big tobacco is clear and exceptionally well thought out. The description of how they are focused on our … Continue reading →

Well sort of. It’s not as much that they are learning to share as I am learning to prevent them from getting half the fruit. So I put a slit in a couple of containers can put them around fruit. … Continue reading →

I’m getting all these fun emails today! One had the following …. thought you might get a lot out of it: http://www.batcon.org/pdfs/water/bciwaterforwildlife.pdf Thanks for your interest in the small, furry and ecologically essential! Cindy Has lots of great information about … Continue reading →

http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/aquatic/report-sacramento-delta-no-longer-a-delta.html Well I haven’t posted here in a while but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been active. I have continued to work with wonderful people and permaculture. I saw this article the other day. I have been saying for a … Continue reading →

Well it seems like ages since I posted but part of that time I have been working on a talk to try to give an overview and perspective of Permaculture and Microbiology. The flyer is attached below. And here is … Continue reading →

http://thespacereporter.com/2014/05/the-clandestine-colonization-of-microbes-in-space/ Sigh! Wow! It would “create new life” No, it will contaminate someone else’s planet with organisms from our world . We have the potential to completely destroy someone else’s ecosystem. We will never know if mars’, or Europa’s life … Continue reading →

That was the opening line for my original San Diego Permaculture – Facebook post. It then continued with the following quote. For us, post-fire logging is the last and worst thing you should ever do in a forest, said Chad … Continue reading →

State May Declare Unique NorCal Fish Threatened http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/fish/state-may-declare-unique-norcal-fish-threatened.html A quote from the above article – And the lake’s fringing wetlands, which provide crucial habitat for juvenile hitch, have been reduced as well, from about 9,000 acres in the 19th Century … Continue reading →

I bought some milkweed seeds from a new seed company. And _again_ they didn’t grow. They also obviously had a fungus associated with them. As soon as I put them on damp soil, damp paper towel, anything damp the fungus … Continue reading →