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Some Naturopathic, Holistic and Homeopathic remedies and references:
(high quality) Colloidal Silver: anti-microbial
Silver sulfadiazine: topical anti-microbial (some Rx brands are FDA approved)
LDM-100 (Lomatium dissectum): anti-microbial
"Nerve Restore" by Quantum Herbal: tremors and seizures
Serrapeptase: cataracts and ocular health
The 10 Essential Herbs by Lalitha Thomas Healthy Healing by Dr Linda-Rector Page PhD N.D Prescription for Nutritional Healing by Balches Natural Health for Dogs and Cats by Dr Pitcairn DVM. The New Natural Cat, or the newer version The Natural Cat by Anita Frazier Encyclopedia of Natural Health by Dr Michael Murray NMD
Pretty nifty link there Stonecypher. I've looked into aquaponics a lot, and it could really work in many areas of the US & world. Not here, unfortunately, it's just too cold in the winter for the plants and fish to survive without a LOT of additional heat; but we could probably extend our growing season a few months and run the fish as "annuals" instead of "perennials". Wonder if this system would work with shrimp/crayfish instead of tilapia (not my fave)?
I wonder how grains, fruit trees/shrubs and larger livestock would factor into/onto an intensive greenhouse scenario like this. I'm sure you could probably get nearly the same ratio of food:space with rotational grazing pigs/chickens/rabbits/goats in a pasture/field/garden system with an attached orchard...
Pretty nifty link there Stonecypher.Wonder if this system would work with shrimp/crayfish instead of tilapia (not my fave)?
I wonder how grains, fruit trees/shrubs and larger livestock would factor into/onto an intensive greenhouse scenario like this. I'm sure you could probably get nearly the same ratio of food:space with rotational grazing pigs/chickens/rabbits/goats in a pasture/field/garden system with an attached orchard...
God, I love the Internet...
Check this out, Missing!
Aquaponics at home | Grow your own Vegetables, Fruit, Fish and Crayfish | Gympie Qld Australia Rustic Lodge (http://www.rusticlodgealpacas.com/Aquaponics/aquaponics1.html - broken link)
As for your second paragraph of "wondering," I'll bet you could use this concept and build on it:
University of Alaska has been doing lots of research on growing dwarf orchards and fruiting shrubs in high tunnels. While most people don't have to worry about trees actually freezing to death in the winter like we do, the use of high tunnels may allow them to grow varieties that are a zone or two warmer than theirs and to extend the growing season. Cooperative Extension Service | Fruit Trees
Well DRAT! Just found out that farming, even for personal use, non-native fin fish (tilapia/perch) and shellfish (crayfish/freshwater shrimp), is illegal in Alaska since native fisheries are a major industry. None of the native species of freshwater fish are appropriate for aquaponics on a homestead scale off-grid
ETA: I can legally purchase Red Claw Crayfish as "ornamentals" in a living room fish tank scenario; but if Fish & Game ever found that I had a "farm" situation and was eating them I'd be fined, and the specimens and system confiscated.
Well DRAT! Just found out that farming, even for personal use, non-native fin fish (tilapia/perch) and shellfish (crayfish/freshwater shrimp), is illegal in Alaska since native fisheries are a major industry. None of the native species of freshwater fish are appropriate for aquaponics on a homestead scale off-grid
ETA: I can legally purchase Red Claw Crayfish as "ornamentals" in a living room fish tank scenario; but if Fish & Game ever found that I had a "farm" situation and was eating them I'd be fined, and the specimens and system confiscated.
Well, that sucks! How about native trout and/or carp?
This guy up your way is doing it, with a strange fetish for JackieO thrown into the aquaponics setup:
To think we used to catch buckets of native crayfish in the streams around where I lived as a child (Eugene, Oregon) and how they were just part of the ecosystem...
Weird Cafe, the JackieO worshipper, uses goldfish in a micro environment to educate about aquaponics, he doesn't try to eat the fishies just the salad greens. ("JackieO pooped on my salad")
Arctic Char and Graylings could work in a large scale, high volume recirculation system, and some Canadian Fisheries have been testing aquaponic solutions with them. Seems ADF&G are also a little snippy about farming a native wild species, so that's a no-go as well. Not that we could afford a system that large on our acreage anyway... it's cheaper to go to the creek and cast a net (fish are very plentiful up here) than to burn several gallons of fuel everyday to keep several hundred gallons of water moving and warm enough not to freeze up.
I'd be interested in small scale freshwater crustaceans since we're far enough from the sea to make crab & shrimp expensive, but trouts & salmons are plentiful in the nearby creeks and rivers. Just have to use chicken and bunny poo, and some big worm bins (there are no earthworms in Interior Alaska either, but you can legally farm them). A fishing trip to the coast once or twice a year (or befriending a fisherman!) will stock us up on shrimp, crab, cod and halibut.
The ULTIMATE checklist for emergency preparedness supplies.. | Learn How to be Prepared (http://learnhowtobeprepared.com/2011/11/the-ultimate-checklist-for-emergency-preparedness-supplies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ultimate-checklist-for-emergency-preparedness-supplies - broken link)
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