Permaculture Blog

Anyone living in CA south of Los Angeles should really try to get to one of these tours!
They are absolutely wonderful and a wealth of information too.

Intro. to Permaculture Workshop, Tours and Tips!

As plants burst into bloom, insure better pollination by interplanting. Plants with clusters of small flowers such as buckwheat, mints, dill, California lilac, etc., provide great food for our small native pollinators, most of which are so small you have to look quick to see them. Provide a shallow water source for bees, too. Think about planting a windbreak to keep the pollen from drying out in our upcoming dry, windy years, and you’ll have much better fruit set in the future.

Introduction to Permaculture Talk, Sat. March 24!

Open Tour Sun. March 18!

www.vegetariat.com and Finch Frolic Facebook.
Home made vegetarian refreshments are provided. Please RSVP to dianeckennedy@prodigy.net. Our monthly workshops cost $20 per person,are held in our passionvine-covered pavilion, and have homemade vegetarian refreshments available. All guests may roam the garden as well.

Please RSVP to dianeckennedy@prodigy.net. The
* March Open Tour will be Sunday the 18th*
at 10 AM sharp. These information-packed 2-hour tours are classes in how to rethink your yard. Water and money-saving, planting tips, repurposing and recycling, chemical-free gardening, and so much more. There is no such thing as a dumb question at our workshops and tours, so if you need clarification, just ask. Bring something with which to take notes! Tours are $15/person. RSVP to dianeckennedy@prodigy.net. Open to the first 15 people who RSVP.

Thank you Diane for everything you do for permaculture!

I love this guy :-)

And he’s such a geek :-)

And my favorite line. “Please don’t let your prejudices get in the way of you learning something.”

Check out some gorgeous dinosaur art HERE

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Per Facebook’s partnership, independent fact-checking outlets are able to review flagged stories on Facebook and, if false, append a related fact check. (Being a signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network’s code of principles is a necessary condition for participation in this partnership.)

“signatory of the International Fact-Checking Network” You know that line where Big Brother is on the other side? Well that line is really far behind you now.

Do you think it would be impossible that some of our news media — CNN or MSNBC etc etc could start contributing to Snopes’ bottom line for more favorable reviews ☺

Bob
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Before LA was the home of the film industry, over 8,000 acres of the city were wetlands, ranging from freshwater ponds to tidal flats.

Source: Incredible images of Los Angeles when it was covered in wetlands

Pesticides are not the only thing that damage our environment and cause the loss of species and animal diversity. Loss of habitat is a primary cause as well. We can do a lot by encouraging responsible tree trimming.

Here is some information I got as an email from:

News from the Tree Care for Birds and other Wildlife project

Nesting season is in full swing. It’s time to spotlight our Best Management Practices and remind those hiring tree care providers to include these standards in work contracts. Visitors to our websites can easily locate the full document, or simplified set of guidelines in English and Spanish titled, Preventing Harm to Wildlife During Tree care, as well as a 15-minute training video. But there’s more on the website–downloadable articles for your newsletter, posts for social media; even sample letters to send to your HOA or city officials. Please go to http://treecareforbirds.com. And please “like” our Facebook page.

Best
Bob

I have been on the email list of this organization for several years and they now have a Facebook page so I am going to post a link.

Save the frogs facebook group
m.facebook.com/groups/2242363106?src=email_notif

And please remember that mosquito fish or gambusia eat the native frog tadpoles _in preference_ to mosquito larvae.

www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/hungry-minnow-run-amok/

Please do not add these “mosquito fish” to your pond or aquatic habitat.

Best to everyone.
Bob

Source: Rebuilding Our Habitat Pond… Again

You can make a small pond in a cattle waterer or other metal container, or suspend a big soda bottle over a concave dish and pierce a small hole in the bottom so that it very slowly drips. Provide some shelter for the animals around your watering hole, and you’ll be helping the wildlife get through these extremely dry days. They will respond by eating your bad bugs, building soil, pollinating and so much more.Read more.

Fantastic! And I haven’t posted it in a while, but for any new readers out there Diane Kennedy’s permaculture Garden (link) is a fantastic experience and a wonderful place to take a tour.

The best to everyone
Bob

Wow I thought I had done several posts on xenografts but I could not find any. I usually babble about them while hikeing and such. But in a nutshell- living animal tissue, is inserted surgically into a human being or the other way around. But in most cases it is animal tissue into humans because in some cases it is used medically to treat certain diseases such as Parkinson’s.

With Parkinson’s it is fetal pig brain tissue that is injected. It really seems to help. But microbiologically that is just asking for an animal virus to “learn” — to mutate, to take over a human being. The key thing is that both of the cell types are alive and ticking along. Animals, including humans have something on the order of 100,000 hidden (cryptic) viruses in their genomes.
Since the cells are alive and expressing their DNA there is a low chance that a cryptic virus could mutate and become active. And thus be creating genetic variance. If one of these genetic variants could infect the human tissue or host it could be catastrophic.

If an AIDs type swine virus with the communicability to humans of the common cold became active the human race would be dead before we knew it. The problem is: like asteroid impacts; there is a very low probability of this happening and it is virtually impossible to tell a victim of Parkinson’s or their family members that we have a good treatment but we don’t want to use it because there is an incredibly tiny chance that we would kill the entire human race.

But biologically it is still not a good idea to be putting living animal tissue into humans or the reverse– human cells into animals.

Bob
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Just a very cool article on how our genes guide our behavior.
Something to think about the next time I’m annoyed at another driver. or I believe that I have not been given my 54% “even half” of the cake :-)
And as an aside something to think about when we spray neurotoxins around or medicate with psychoactive drugs. What are we doing to our brain chemistry?
blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/02/19/your-brain-on-injustice/#.Wosxsp-IbZE
The best to you all!
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Very interesting and in my opinion thoughtful article. And an issue not brought up is how we tend to do randomized studies and get data on percent effectiveness of a certain drug but then tend to believe that if the drug is 48% effective that we all get a 48% benefit from it, as though we were all exactly the same height. We never really expect to see someone have none of the beneficial effects but some or all of the side effects.

www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28307-from-prozac-to-parkland-are-psychiatric-drugs-causing

Hmmmm
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