Feed Your Family Healthy Food Forever OR Buy a Used Car – by Colle and Phyllis Davis Create Food Security and Food Safety for Your Family! Which is a better investment? Providing your family with fresh, healthy food that will last FOREVER? Or, buying a used car? Do you want to provide your family with food …
Category: Sustainability
Tilapia and the Omega-3 Debate
Tilapia and the Omega-3 Debate – by Colle and Phyllis Davis What fish has the highest levels of omega-3? Wild Alaskan salmon’s sockeye salmon wins the prize! If you enjoy fish other than sockeye salmon, consider adding flax and chia seeds to your diet to add Omega-3s into your diet. Alaskan salmon’s (spawning) sockeye salmon …
Aquaponics Systems MUST be Self Sustaining to Feed the Hungry
Aquaponics Systems MUST be Self Sustaining to Feed the Hungry – by Colle and Phyllis Davis Please note: The majority of the food grown in Portable Farms® for commercial growing MUST be sold and not given away to those in need dontated so the aquaponics operation becomes self-sustaining and is able to pay for the ongoing costs of …
Waist High Gardening for Boomers in Aquaponics
Waist High Gardening for Boomers in Aquaponics Boomers enjoy gardening and aquaponics creates sustainability in their community! – by Colle and Phyllis Davis AQUAPONICS TO THE RESCUE. Most Baby Boomers enjoy gardening. Many of us spent time on our grandparents farms during our childhoods and today, there is a major resurgence in back yard gardens …
Zucchini Grow WELL in Portable Farms
Zucchini! OH YUM. You can cook almost anything with zucchini and they are EASY to grow year round in a Portable Farms Aquaponics System! Generally, zucchini are grown during the summer (May to August in the Northern Hemisphere). Zucchini is a small summer squash (a vegetable) that looks like a cucumber but has yellow flesh inside …
Trending: Eating Locally Grown Food
Trending: Eating Locally Grown Food – by Colle and Phyllis Davis Sales from locally grown foods have increased 20% PER YEAR over the past ten years with output reaching nearly $11 billion nationwide in the US. There is a growing movement across the world to secure and eat organic or at least locally grown foods …
Pesticide & GMO Free Food is Rare and Precious
Pesticide & GMO Free Food is Rare and Precious – by Colle and Phyllis Davis PLEASE NOTE: GMO seeds are commonly used in field crops like corn and wheat but will KILL broad leaf vegetables like tomatoes and lettuces. There are many misconceptions about GMO seeds used in planting typical vegetable gardens and Portable Farms® …
Fossil Water – No Water Means No Life
Fossil Water – No Water Means No Life -by Colle and Phyllis Davis Fossil water like fossil fuel is a non-renewable resource. It is not as rare as the ‘rare earth metals’ but once we use it up, it’s gone forever and for those who depend on this water supply (that’s all of us to …
Owning Your Own Personal Wetlands
Owning Your Own Personal Wetlands – by Colle and Phyllis Davis The most productive land on Earth is actually wet land, also known as ‘the wetlands.’ What are wetlands? Wetlands offer ecosystem benefits and it is said they are considered the kidneys of the earth because they filter and store water so efficiently in addition …