Yesterday was mostly a classroom day, going over introductions, basics and proselytizing.


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Long day today, some in classroom, some out at the farm. Mets lots of great people, learned good stuff,

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My hotel room:


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The Delta flight to HI got a bit hairy when the pilot announced an oil leak in the engine. Luckily, they noticed this while still on the ground... One of the nice side effects (for us) in the Iceland volcano is that there are lots of extra unused planes in the system! So they just had to pull another out of the hanger and move us over. Never mind ( Read more... )

And I'm going to the AP training at Friendly Aquaponics on the Big Island of Hawai'i on Saturday. I'll be in HI for about 10 days. Squeee!

I just did a phone interview with a guy from Aquaculture North America about my aquaponics systems. At this rate, I'm going to have to put a "press" page on my website!

Apropos of nothing else, I'm doing a lot of twittering these days. Nothing of substance, of course, but if you're curious if I'm still alive, that's not a bad place to check.

While I was interviewed for this article, I wasn't mentioned in it. :'-(

Still, great article!

The Spotless Garden

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I have so much to report, but I"ve been so busy doing stuff I haven't had time to post.

But I wanted to report that I just got back from a talk that Will Allen (Growing Power) gave here in town, at Little Earth here in South Minneapolis. The talk was put on by the Women's Environmental Institute, and Will gave an overview of GP and all the ( Read more... )

Black soldier flies are flies that interact very rarely with humans, and so mostly go under the radar. However, in the aquaponics, reptile and chicken communities they're starting to get a really good name.

Their larvae, also sometimes known as phoenix worms, are great food for fish, reptiles and chickens. This chart gets tossed around a lot:


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