On maintaining and harvesting Spirulina, in order to provide a constant supply at home of this superfood algae — one of the more nutrient-dense things one can grow in a small space, in order to be more self-sufficient and ensure your family’s food security. All links below!
ITEMS MENTIONED:
– Lights: (dual) 45W Kingbo LED light per tank, a mere $30 right now — http://amzn.to/2uUcosg
– 50 micron screen: http://amzn.to/2f5LzeW
– 200W heater: (claims rated up to 75gal, but I’m using this for my 40gal, deliberately over-sizing to avoid burning out): http://amzn.to/2u1JNCi
– ph Digital + Waterproof 0-14 meter — also useful for Aquaponics : http://amzn.to/2f6EMSg
/ or : pH Test Strips 9.2 – 10.6 microFine pH strip : https://www.microessentiallab.com/ProductInfo/F04-MCRFN-092106-MID.aspx
NOTES:
– top off with clean water as needed (evaporation)
– bubbles on culture: needs to be stirred
– globules in culture: needs to be harvested
– pH:
over 10? ready to harvest.
starts around 8.6, after adding baking soda into initial medium
over 11? too high, may need new medium
– heater: oversize deliberately. you’ll be running at max temperature — mine burned out.
– “rest”ing the culture — reduce temperature to 65-80, reduce light
– keeping a backup
– 1L on standby — or run multiple tanks!
MY VIDEOS ON SETTING UP TO FARM SPIRULINA:
– recipe for the medium: https://youtu.be/ff8SzDBq3fY
– chelating Iron for Spirulina: https://youtu.be/TCUNsrgvGrc
– recipe for the FOOD (nutrient replacement mix): https://youtu.be/wcXzQw9cJ3s
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Mapping a path forward to prosperity in an uncertain future.
Ice Age Farmer Podcast Ep #5: Great Famine of 1315, Grand Solar Minimum news, the Bitcoin “fork,” goats, chickens, peppermint, a hydroponics failure, and more! Feedback/questions: iceagefarmer@gmail.com
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IAF005: 7/29/2017
Mapping a path forward to prosperity in an uncertain future.
SHOW NOTES:
1. Daily Steps
– Jhere McKenzie: growing sprouts, enjoying the addition of raw living food, and resulting energy!
– Cheryl writes with some terrific information on goats: Nigerian dwarf, pygora, LaMancha. and Icelandic chickens!
Peppermint problem!
Hydroponics failure: 2″ NFT outgrown by kale!
2. “Ice Breaker”: history section
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%9317
Reminder:
– IAF is available on iTunes: http://iceagefarmer.com/itunes
and on Stitcher: http://iceagefarmer.com/stitcher
EARLY WINTER — FREEZE ALREADY HITTING RUSSIA IN LATE JULY!!!!!!
Madagan: https://www.iceagenow.info/rare-early-freeze-russia/
via http://hmn.ru/index.php?index=1&ts=170728120250
FLOODING:
115,000 dislocated people in Myanmar:
https://watchers.news/2017/07/25/myanmar-flood-july-2017/
https://www.sott.net/article/357466-Major-flood-damage-following-heavy-local-rainshowers-in-Western-Norway
110″ of rain, 4 days, India:
https://www.sott.net/article/357712-110-inches-of-rain-in-just-four-days-hits-Mount-Abu-in-Rajasthan-India
Nevada receives 2ft (60cm) !!!! in the Elk Ridge:
https://watchers.news/2017/07/26/flash-floods-las-vegas-valley-july-2017/
Fire:
France
https://www.sott.net/article/357507-Ecological-catastrophe-Thousands-forced-to-evacuate-as-massive-wildfires-rage-across-French-Riviera-and-Corsica
Ray Kraft: we may need tens of millions of Greenhouses:
Low yields:
https://www.agweb.com/blog/the-allendale-wake-up-call/wheat-council-confirms-low-yields/
Partly due to drought in the dakotas: https://www.agweb.com/article/worsening-drought-conditions-in-parts-of-us-stressing-crops-apnews/
Study: there is NO RESILIENCE in current agricultural system:
https://www.agweb.com/article/could-climate-change-crumble-corn-yields-blmg/
4. Cryptocurrency: bitcoin advice pre split
Short answer: My personal preference is to fully control your bitcoin on 8/1, ie be in full ownership of the private keys. For more, see:
Ice Age Farmer Podcast Ep #4: Alternate building methods like cob, adobe, and straw bale; Christian issues a challenge, latest news, and a question on soaking seeds for microgreens. Feedback/questions: iceagefarmer@gmail.com
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IAF004: 7/24/2017
Mapping a path forward to prosperity in an uncertain future.
1. Daily steps towards self-sufficiency: Are you following social conditioning, or actively working towards a more resilient future? Make a point of breaking routines, integrating new knowledge and data as we encounter it, and consciously choosing how to most effectively spend each day: moving towards self-sufficiency as quickly and efficiently as possible!
SOCIAL CONFOMRITY — WATCH!
2. News:
* Southern Hemisphere: record winter from hell. See headlines (fatal hail/flooding, crop losses) from Australia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, New Zealand.
* Extremely dangerous hail continues to increase in frequency — how to integrate this new data into our model.
Hail scar:
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hail-scar-south-dakota-storm-damage
* Study linking the period of dinosaur extinction to large geological changes on Mars, further evidencing
3. Viewer Question: Do you soak seeds when starting microgreens?
Mostly! This question started a long IAF discussion of microgreens. Listen for details; it depends on the seed: Peas (24hrs), sunflowers/radish (8hrs), … but do trials and see what works for you in your environment, and with your seed.
4. Special feature: Introduction to Alternate Building Methods
I have been rolling around the USA staying with folks of all sorts, and living in structures that are NOT the American dream–and can even be DEBT FREE living!
Among the structures I’ve visited:
– cob
– adobe
– straw bale
– repurposed bus
– teepee
(I don’t discuss the latter two in this program). These methods are all ancient, and can be mixed/used together. While some structures make more sense in certain climates, oddly, the main reason that one tends to find, for example, adobe in New Mexico, and straw bale in California, is due to building codes and regulations.
Earthship time-lapse:
Since this is clearly just an intro, merely mentioning these techniques, here are some resources to dig further:
— Choosing the appropriate building material:
— Kirsten has videos both on choosing a natural building material:
— … and on the earthships:
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IAF shares a letter from James Shirley of JPL after announcements, steps towards self-sufficiency, and Grand Solar Minimum news. SEND IN QUESTIONS for next viewer-question show: iceagefarmer [at] gmail.com
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* Argentina — UNPRECEDENTED cold: -25.4’C
… while POWER OUT for up to 30% of some municipalities (San Carlos de Bariloche)
* Flash flooding:
in Moscow: https://watchers.news/2017/07/17/russian-capital-moscow-flooded-yet-again/
in AZ : https://watchers.news/2017/07/17/flash-flood-cold-springs-arizona-july-15-2017/
in China: https://watchers.news/2017/07/17/jilin-china-record-rain-damage-july-2017/
While roasting 7lbs beef bones to make broth:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/16/will-sun-put-brakes-on-global-warming.html
notice the “conservative media” DOES mention “Grand Solar Minimum”
cryptocracy will fashion this into a divide-and-conquer, red-vs-blue issue,
THIS MAY BE WHY AGW HAS BECOME A RED-VS-BLUE ISSUE!
wow. the pre-scripting.
4. LETTER FROM JAMES SHIRLEY, NASA/JPL
See video for his letter.
Here is the paper he referenced:
Today: steps towards self-sufficiency, Grand Solar Minimum news of climate-caused secondary effects, Mark Zuckerberg visits a farm, an IAF advisory about previously recommended equipment, and your questions on reflective insulation, grid down scenarios, and prolific greens. Get in touch: iceagefarmer [at] gmail.com
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* algae bloom killing cattle in lake county, OR
first reported case in Lake County, a result of heavy rains after few seasons of drought
https://www.agweb.com/article/algae-o…
* as if we needed anything more, Mormon crickets are at record high levels — dangerous on roads, and eating crops
https://www.sott.net/article/356362-U…
Why? deep snow cover helped insulate and protect the eggs,
^ both examples of how changing conditions will result in unexpected behaviors in a complex system
* M-class solar flare — look for outages like the April 21st power outages:
https://watchers.news/2017/07/14/m2-4…
* zuckerberg visits a Wisconsin farm, talks about wanting to know where his food comes from
discipline — work morning to night
yes but baby, when you have that first salad from your own garden, you taste the freedom
and you want more
and when you go through days eating only food you’ve sourced, grown, prepared
it’s worth it
really interesting about the timing here — we see big investments in indoor farming
zuckerberg talking about food sources
RIGHT as crops are being decimated
75% georgia peaches — http://www.walb.com/story/35592005/mo…
and RIGHT as NASA talks about Solar Minimum
+ they are broadcasting the pre-scripting for mass crop-loss, food shortages, famines,
* speaking of crop losses, briefly, remember it’s also about the quality of crop
Germany struggling with heavy rains, making high-protein wheat hard to come by:
https://www.agweb.com/article/german-…
Fueling price increases:
https://www.agweb.com/assets/1/6/Main…
* Southern hemisphere, winter
Australia having a HELL of a winter Chile too:
https://www.iceagenow.info/record-col…
breaking cold record set in 1924
this does not bode well for our coming winter. Start getting ready now.
https://www.sott.net/article/356347-M…
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2. IAF Advisory 45W kingbo — some of them are shoddy. a corner is electrified, sometimes my whole rack shocks me
speaking of electric shock, don’t use water heaters in too little water, they break, and then will shock the shit out of you
3. Questions
[gabriel L] what kind of reflective coating is that ?
Reflectix, brand insulation
see here among its uses, when used under the circulating pipes under a radiant heat floor, it has an R value of 21
have a feeling we’ll be revisiting this material–or something like it, hopefully cheaper–when exploring a radiant-heated greenhouse, water circulated through a solar water heater or compost heater
[merlyn] nice setup but how does this work when grid goes offline
[Jack-L] most prolific greens?
sweet potato, and then a tuber
radish, plus super short to harvest
holland greens typhon
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Today: steps towards self-sufficiency, standing on the shoulders of giants, question about self-sufficient aquaponics, and in the news, folks in Moscow are depressed because of the unusually cloudy and wet summer — let’s take a look at nutritive ways to support ourselves using Vitamin D and Omega 3 through Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) in the Grand Solar Minimum. Get in touch: iceagefarmer [at] gmail.com
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1. What are you doing today? We must take steps every day towards self-sufficiency.
Amazon’s Bezos and Ex-Google’s Eric Schmidt are investing in vertical farming, so that they can profit from the collapse of agriculture. WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY? Share below, build community, hold each other accountable.
2. IAF focus on how to prosper in gsm. In this, standing on the shoulders of giants, uniquely positioned to synthesize these lifetimes of research into a concrete set of philosophies to guide us through GSM.
3. Question from bananas: Is aquaponics sustainable without chemicals?
4. Moscow depressed due to cold, dark summer. How do we plan to support our bodies
through this?
Vitamin D sources — look further please, Dr. Ted from Healthmasters speaks to it:
https://oldwayspt.org/programs/oldways-vegetarian-network/oldways-vegetarian-network-resources/vegetarian-vitamin-d-food
Oyster mushrooms!
Omega 3 also found in Spirulina and Moringa.
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IAF responds to claims that Grand (Prolonged) Solar Minima are disinfo / misinfo / fake science, critically disassembling one “debunk,” and formally accepts the invitation to dig into the scientific literature. Stay tuned for a next video doing so (below).
Departing briefly–once!–from the usual focus on self-sufficiency: IAF introduces scientific literature speaking to extended solar minima and predicting our standing at the precipice now of a modern Grand Solar Minimum.
Start taking daily steps NOW towards radical self-sufficiency so that you can thrive in the Grand Solar Minimum!
References:
Eddy 1976 The Maunder Minimum
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1742583?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Eddy’s work was not without its detractors, which is evident even from the abstract of his 1983 paper Reappraising the Maunder Minimum:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF00211962?LI=true
FAIRBRIDGE & SHIRLEY
Among the literature that cites Eddy’s work directly, is a 1987 paper by Fairbridge and Shirley, predicting that a Maunder-type prolonged minimum would be underway by 2013 on the basis of a study of the solar motion with respect to the solar system barycenter in the years 760-2100.
[Abtract] We studied the inertial motion of the Sun for the period A.D. 760–2100. Defining solar orbits with reference to the Sun’s successive close approaches to the solar system barycenter, occurring at mean intervals of 19.86 yr, we find simple relationships linking the inertial orientation of the solar orbit and the amplitude of the precessional rotation of the orbit with the occurrence of the principal prolonged solar activity minima of the current millenium (the Wolf, Spörer, and Maunder minima). The progression of the inertial orientation parameter is controlled by the 900-yr ‘great inequality’ of the motion of Jupiter and Saturn, while the precessional rotation parameter is linked with the 179-yr cycle of the solar inertial motion previously identified by Jose (1965).
A NEW PROLONGED MINIMUM OF SOLAR ACTIVITY MAY BE IMMINENT.
[/Abstract]
Ivanka Charvatova
Work in 1989, still publishing on it today
Can origin of the 2400-year cycle of solar activity be caused by solar inertial motion?
OTHER MODELS ALSO SUPPORTING our ENTERING A NEW PROLONGED MINIMUM:
Wilson, Carter, Waite 2008
Does a Spin–Orbit Coupling Between the Sun and the Jovian Planets Govern the Solar Cycle?
* 4.3 Important Consequences of the Resonance Model
Interestingly, the Sun’s solar cycle has been in the phase locked mode for the last 105 yr (1900–2005) and the indications are that it is about to suffer another phase catastrophe in the later part of cycle 24 (i.e. the solar cycle that will peak in ∼2011–2012). If this is the case, then we should expect that in the two decades following the phase catastrophe, the world’s mean temperature should be noticeably cooler i.e. THE COOLING SHOULD START IN THE LATE 2010s. This claim is based on the precedent that there were noticeable decreases in the world’s mean temperature following the last two phase catastrophes. The cool period now as the Dalton Minimum (1800–1820) that followed the phase catastrophe in the early 1790s and a similar cool period called the Victorian Minimum (1880–1900) that followed the phase catastrophe in the late 1870s.
James Shirley, MS (Physics / Geosciences)
https://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/Shirley/
Editor of Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences 1991-1996
(puts the PEER in PEER REVIEW)
Continues to work at NASA’s JPL at Caltech, publishes lately more on Mars. But I did find these slides from a presentation:
FINALLY, a fractal model of the non-local universe:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960077915003082
. . . as above, so below.
Life is but a dream.
Start taking daily steps NOW towards self-sufficiency so that you can thrive in the times ahead.
Links displayed but not even described today:
400 000 affected by widespread flooding in India’s state of Assam
https://watchers.news/2017/07/06/assam-floods-india-july-2017/
Overnight storms leave 156 000 Michigan homes without power
https://watchers.news/2017/07/07/michigan-storm-156-000-without-power
California ski resorts continue to be open into July
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/california-ski-resorts-remain-open-for-july-4th-and-beyond-thanks-to-bountiful-winter/70002061
TENS THOUSAND CATTLE DYING in Southern California heat wave:
FARMERS STRIKING in Rajasthan (INDIA’s largest state)
http://www.hindustantimes.com/jaipur/farmers-bodies-call-village-shutdown-in-rajasthan-for-loan-waiver/story-bs2rdhghb04fVuJ3bApYEK.html
MSM claims Ocean Fish are shrinking due to climate change:
Expect fish portions to shrink by 20%:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3973164/portions-of-chippy-favourites-such-as-cod-are-set-to-shrink-20-per-cent-by-2050-due-to-global-warming-scientists-claim/amp/
IAF highlights the historic flooding across Western Japan which has caused 400,000+ people to evacuate today–receiving 16 inches in 4 hours!!–as well as other headlines reinforcing the core IAF message: START GROWING YOUR FOOD TODAY. Crop losses continue, exponentially increasing extreme weather events, and volcanic/seismic activity: many indications that the effects of the Grand Solar Minimum continue to accelerate. (All links below the video.)
Start taking daily steps NOW towards radical self-sufficiency so that you can thrive in the Grand Solar Minimum!
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=solar%20minimum
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=grand%20solar%20minimum
Supporting the MODIFIED LIMITED HANGOUT theory — they couldn’t stop the public from catching on.
IAF reviews Grand Solar Minimum news on this Independence Day, 2017, and defines the process of driving towards independence: what do I depend on today, and can I imagine systems to enact today so that I don’t depend on them tomorrow? how do I constantly invest in my future? (links below)
Crop losses continue, exponentially increasing extreme weather events, and volcanic/seismic activity: many indications that the effects of the Grand Solar Minimum continue to accelerate. START MOVING TOWARDS SELF-SUFFICIENCY TODAY.
Start taking daily steps NOW towards self-sufficiency so that you can thrive in the Grand Solar Minimum.
nasa releases, alt media picking up on it
modified limited hangout
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited…
steven hawking coming out
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-wa…
even as record cold at north pole’s summer
https://realclimatescience.com/2017/0…
https://www.sott.net/article/355474-T…
melt hasn’t even begun yet
https://www.iceagenow.info/wp-content…
crop losses:
flooded fields, frost, frozen corn affecting farmers cross USA
https://www.sott.net/article/355457-F…
floods in china
http://in.reuters.com/article/china-w…
amish man sentenced to 6 years in prison for improperly labelled food
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-stat…
http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Conv…
criminalizing food production
good sign? that state is playing the long game?
1-month Moringa check-in. Results of experiments (outside vs. inside, potting mix vs native soil), the realization of grow boxes, and progress establishing a pipeline of these prolific “natural multivitamins” for self-sustenance through the Grand Solar Minimum.
Please share with your friends information on the Grand Solar Minimum and the resulting climate disturbances we are experiencing, as well as intensification of the crop losses that have already begun.
START GROWING YOUR OWN FOOD TODAY — ACHIEVE FOOD SOVEREIGNTY!
Moringa leaves contain:
• 2 times the protein of yogurt
• 7 times the vitamin C of oranges
• 3 times the potassium of bananas
• 4 times the vitamin A of carrots
• 4 times the calcium of milk
Leaves are used as a purgative. ( — HEADS UP !! )
Juice from the leaves is believed to have a stabilizing effect on blood pressure and is used to treat anxiety.
It is believed to control glucose levels in cases of diabetes.
The oil from Moringa (35-40% by weight of the seeds) can be used for cooking and a number of purposes: cooking and cosmetics; and because it won’t spoil and turn rancid, it is also used as a preservative and machinery lubricant, even being used as a lubricant in fine watches.
Mixed with honey and followed by a drink of coconut milk 2 or 3 times a day, leaves are used as a remedy for diarrhea, dysentery and colitis.
Leaf juice, sometimes with carrot juice added, is used as a diuretic.
Eating leaves is recommended in cases of gonorrhea because of the diuretic action.
Leaves and buds are rubbed on the temples for headache.
A poultice is made from fresh leaves and applied to reduce glandular swelling.
Leaf juice is used as a skin antiseptic.
Leaves are used to treat fevers, bronchitis, eye and ear infections, scurvy, and catarrh (inflammation of the mucus membrane).
Leaves are considered to be anthelmintic ( able to kill intestinal worms).
Eating leaves is believed to increase a woman’s milk production and is sometimes prescribed for anemia.
a period during which solar activity diminishes, resulting in drastic climatic and geophysical changes to our planet. These include increased galactic cosmic rays (GCRs), seismic activity, and volcanism; the latter often results in a global reduction in temperatures (see “the year without a summer” — and much more on the IAF wiki).
