Bread Rising Celebration Through the Eyes of Bread Tweeters

On Monday, March 7, Bread for the World celebrated a successful  #BreadRising capital campaign with a dinner featuring powerful reflections by Rev....
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Franciscan Sister Wins Food Netwoks Chopped Contest Seeks to Bring Attention to Issue of Hunger

"Perhaps being on national TV and winning this competition will bring some attention to the issue of hunger and to the reality that Gods love is so strong...
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Homesteading Author Map

There are a lot of homesteading and gardening books out there in the sustainable living sphere of influence, many of which are very useful, very entertaining,...
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Marking WorldAidsDay

Photo by Elaine VanCleaveGod of overflowing love, we come with joys and sorrows. We come in turmoil an d chaos, struggling to create one world in hope....
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Home operated fish farm can make money!

I have always been a supporter of small scale aquaculture farms used by family farmers to grow their own fresh fish for personal consumption or for sale....
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Trellis Review

Earlier in the summer, we wrote about a multitude of trellises we were trying; some were based on well-thought-out designs, others were the fastest thing...
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Alternative Aquaculture Systems

Industry OverviewThe Aquaculture industry blossomed rapidly, and became a significant supplier of food over the last couple of decades. Aqua Farming is...
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Commercial aquaponics

we specialize in the commercial integrated production of fish and plants, known as aquaponics.We are dedicated to providing the best services and information...
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How to start an aquaponic system

Starting an aquaponic systemIntroductionThis experiment is an introduction into the functions and management of a small aquaponic system. Like a home...
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Garden Protection Plan

When we moved to our new place last August, we had just enough time to put in a small fall garden and get a few meals of kale from the 9 x 3 bed. ...
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Pollination in an Aquaponics system

One of the challenges of growing in an indoor aquaponics environment is that we don’t have nature’s pollinators available to us. But is this a big problem...
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Strata de Mayo

Well, it happened again.  We accidentally blinked, and another three weeks flew by.  Fortunately, we remembered just in time to post a strata...
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Waste to green or ruin

Over 3000 years ago peoples in Asia began to practice poly culture, a process development in which they successfully learned how to recycle agriculture...
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500 liters Aquaponis setup Early days

After removing the NFT system i deceided to set up my next big, or rather my first big Aquaponics setup. A 500 liters fish tank with a 300 liters grow...
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Have Chicken Will Travel

We got back the other day from a wonderful trip home to Wisconsin to visit family and friends.  We usually make the sixteen-hour drive to and from...
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What Equipment You Need for an Aquaponics System

 What Equipment You Need for an Aquaponics SystemAn aquaponics system is a symbiotic marriage of plants and aquatic animals cultivated in a recirculating...
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Circus Performance to Benefit Five Albuquerque Organizations

Photo from Albuquerque Aerialist Collective websiteWhat do the circus and the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity have in common?  The answer is this...
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Homestead Happiness April Week 4

Plenty of bee-related news has us kind of giddy this week.Our new bee package arrived on Saturday.  The local distributor sold more than 1,500 packages,...
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Videos from Interfaith Vigil in Old Town Albuquerque

A couple of days ago we posted a few images and quotes from the program at the Interfaith Vigil in Old Town in Albuquerque on the eve of Pope Francis...
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Pictures of my first Aquaponics growbed

Here are a few pics of how the 70 liter Aquaponic system looked a few months after it was setup.I had to also build a cage around it to keep it from being...
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April May Linkage

We didnt get the April linkage post out in a timely fashion, so here is a special two-month edition of the links we love. (Arent you lucky?)Hope you love...
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Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces Summarizes Pope Francis Visit to the U S

In a piece published in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Blog "To Go Forth," Bishop Oscar Cantú of Las Cruces summarized Pope Francis visit to...
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Water Wheel Prototype

19th century water power is alive and kicking!....er, spinning! My water powered biowheel* prototype is complete. Pumped water powers this...
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Homestead Happiness April Week 1

Overwintered crops, physical acquisition of seeds, workable soil, and gypsy ducks made us happy this week.The chard and garlic under the row cover are...
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