Philip Smith

You sound great ? In describing yourself; you described me. I look fifty have a gut but have been told by several ladies I have attractive legs. I would like to learn how to paint, and took up piano lessons two years ago. I'll bet you know of some great bars, and live music venues? in the morning after many margaritas , vodkas,wines, whatever we could go to a vegetarian restaurant for breakfast and drink wheatgrass juice and detox together and continue our discussions of the universe and beyond from the night before.

Is anyone familiar with Orgonite or Scalar energy cloud/chemtrail busters? It's based on Wilhelm Reichs' work. The devices can be homemade and are comprised of resin,crystals, metal shavings and copper tubing? They're said to help clear the air of chemtrails and other electromagnetic pollution,radiation etc? Also these devices are suppose to help the energies for better plant growth? I recently rented a house; bought a new smart TV. wifi, bluetooth etc etc etc. It took me almost a month to adjust. No matter how long I slept I woke up drained? I have always slept well because I have led a good honest life? At first I considered that the house was on a strange energy grid but then it dawned on me it was all the electromagnetic pollution I was being bombarded with. As I understand it we as Humans are no longer in harmony with the earth"s Schumann resonance frequency due to all the EMF pollution. I have managed to correct this energy irregularity by increased herbage usage and drinking a lot of distilled water.

I like it. I'd wear it.

Rob Meyer wrote:An idea just popped (pooped) into my head. I live in a very populated area, suburban bordering on urban. What I'm picturing is basically a public restroom, with a back yard. The purpose would be to have a community supported compost operation. This compost, once ready, could either be picked up by those who have made previous deposits, or the surplus distributed to local organic farms. Obviously there would be incredibly tremendous health regulations, and likely a good deal of dependency on education and community outreach, but what do you think? Could such a system ever come to be in our life times? In the same vein, what can we do to change the perceptions that society has surrounding composting human feces? In western culture, it's extremely taboo, viewed with disgust and fear. What are some ways we can start to chisel away at these preconceptions?

I"ve also been thinking a lot along those lines. It started with the thought ( dreaming about my Off -Grid house). I thought it would be cool to add a treadmill to batteries for solar? Every once in a blue moon when I can't stand myself any longer; I shut off the computer and go to a local gym. It's a big gym and cheap with all age groups. As I'm on the treadmill watching cooking shows; I can't help but observe all the wasted potential energy being wasted by people busting their asses on treadmills etc. . What if all these machines were hooked up to batteries. Florida has sun and net metering? Along the same lines RV PARKS? God knows like clockwork northerners, mid weterners,canadians are going to come to Florida and Stay in these parks during winter. I would venture to guess that many of these people come from an agrecultural backgrounds (monoculture)? All their greywater and waste water has to be disposed of somehow? If and that's a big If because I don't know anything about this stuff! Asumming that greywater and wastwater are both assets; then maybe these assets could be used in a more beneficial way? Permaculture/Foodforesting, or just reforesting? It could be a learning experience?

"That's passiflora incarnata (passion flower or passion fruit)"

"It's a florida native and has lots of medicinal uses and is edible. "

Ben
, I can't thank you enough for the information! I've had a great time this morning researching. I have found many great websites with the info that you provided. I'm left with the question, how important are wildflowers in relation to eccosystems and permaculture? Thanks once again.
cheers/phil smith

Here's the picture

Yesterday I saw this vine flower/weed; took a picture of it, using my Iphone; then e-mailed it to myself, and now have this picture in an e-mail on my laptop. This is like nothing that I have ever seen before! I am in awe of it and would love to share this thing with the forum; not only for it's incredible uniqeness but also for its beauty and strangeness. I'm hoping that someone could identify it and tell more about it. The problem is I can't figure out how to attach it to a post? Please help. I have become obsessed with this flower/weed! I would also like to know how to get a cutting of it and transplant it, or grow them or buy one? When you zoom in on it, it only gets more incredible? Just my opinion though. Thanks.

Nick

"I attached my food forest plant list, which is just getting started, to prove to anyone interested how many things we can grow here. If anyone doesn't think anything on the list will grow here, please speak up."


Thank you for the post with the list. You build a good case for Florida. I have saved your PDF(food forest plant list) for future reference. Thanks again.

Yesterday I saw this flower/weed, on a vine ; took a closeup picture using my Iphone. Then emailed the picture to myself. I now have this picture as an attachment in an e-mail, on my laptop. In the spirit of Sacred Geometry and Patterns; I would love for the forum to see this thing and tell what the hell it is? The problem is ; I don't know how to attach this to a new topic post? This thing has got me in awe!

The biggest problem with people needing AC is not the heat itself but the style of housing.

I agree. I too grew up in Florida without A.C.; but I also remember it being really hot also. we used a box fan in the window that sucked the hot air out. Also we had an Attic fan.


In earlier times, folks built houses that were up off the ground -- with open crawl spaces, no floor insulation and big wide porches all around. Those houses were adapted to Florida weather. You got constant airflow from under the house where the house itself (with those wide porches) kept the ground cool. The shade from the porch overhang kept the sun out of the house to keep it cooler as well.

They also had sleeping porches and breeze ways as well. Having said that; there wasn't all the concrete,buildings, parking lots. All the vegetation wasn't cut down to build mcmansions and strip malls that are empty; and of course there weren't all the motors/ compressors running; producing heat as well. There weren't all the freeways and cars as well. Also I remember as a kid growing up, we also had seasons in Florida. during the summer like clockwork it would rain every afternoon. It would sometimes drizzle all day for a week on end. Those days appear to be over for now? If I stay in Florida I will be building a (florida cracker style house) If you remember the movie called " Doc Hollywood" with Michael J. Fox ; which was filmed in Micanopy Florida and surrouding towns; you may recall the House his sweetie lived in. That is what my house in part will look like. Of course tweeked with a permacuture design science approach. That movie is one of my favorites. I would love to live in a community like the one depicted in that movie. The squash capital. IT will be in the nineties this week in Micanopy, Florida. the average rainfall 3.03 in. for April , 3.70 in. for May.