BioWebScape Designs

09/10/2017

https://dan-ur.blogspot.com/ Gets you to current post this month for the Full to new readers explanation of the BioWebScape design mindset. Google it. "BioWebScape 101" If you can't find it via google easy as there are millions of pages with 101 in them, keep going to the page and google will get the hint. As I was telling a High School senior who is a neighbor's son His parents and even his Grandmother live at the house. His dad works for a roofing company, his mom and grandmother have a small day care service to working parents. People drop the babies to young children off the kids get picked up by the schools by one of several age related buses that come pick them up. And the parents get them in the afternoons. They have had the service for a long time over 10 years. The family knows by dad , and when my mom was alive her too, We are the oldest original family on the block though when we moved here, there were others older, the houses are over 60 years old. So this one has had at least 2 to as many as 4 occupants.

That happens in older neighborhoods. So the Son whose name I don't know, as I can barely remember names, I know faces, and he knows me, but might not till yesterday had know my science background and then as he munched on a http://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Melothria%20pendula He figured out I was someone to listen too. I pointed out the idea that no need to panic if you think we have to move off to another planet if we want to survive as a species, We just have to re think our problems and rethink the solutions to them.

That is all for now, But if you live where the above plant is,, keep it and harvest it and keep it going, and tell your frirends and nighbors and locals it is a good plant it even has tastey snacks grown on it. Sure it is in your hedge, but it loves you and your hedge. Love it too. I love it it tastes like cucumbers, and is small. the medium to small fruits have softer seeds, if the fruity is blue black let it hang and harvest it later for the seeds, I would just plant the whole fruit in your garden and then when you have it going good to plant for 1 seed and plant.

God gave me a fig leaf for the figs I missed out on, I would trade these plants for figs any day anyway. I might not say that when i get good figs going, but I do now.

May you have the Peace of the Lord Jesus.

Author of hundreds of poems, spanning almost three decades. Several works in progress. Short and long Science Fiction, Mystery, Fantasy. Wishing I could download what I see in my mind's eye onto video to go along with the words.

08/06/2014

Hello everyone,

Just got through sectioning off a plot that is 3 feet wide, and 9.5 feet long, it was a former bed that my dad planted Peppers and other things in last year, but this year he took up the rotted timbers of it's raised bed status and everything is sort of ground level.

I sank the old rusty rebar pegs we used to anchor the timbers down and started stringing it off. I had used a fork hoe not sure what its name is , four tines like your fingers curled in an L at the end of a long handle. I just broke up the surface I did not w**d or anything, I just broke the surface. I watered it lightly.

Then I read the newspaper, It is muggy out there at 8 am in August in central Arkansas. I had bought some hard red wheat for sprouting and or planting so I meausured out 1 1/4 cups of the wheat berry.(seed) and hand scattered it over the area, then put down a light layer of Wheat straw, my dad bought for the chicken. I used the wire funnel shaped tomato cages my dad has a lot of to hold the straw down and to prevent "her name is Nobody" from getting in there much, then I finished threading the cotton string I had round and through the edge cages laying horizontal.

The 28.5 Square Feet of Wheat is another test plot Hopefully I will have better results than I did 3 years ago, or was it 4? I have yet to offer to prune my nieghbors fig tree, it is leggy and needs to be pruned back.

Right now we are also trying to deal with hoodlum youth from another street that wonder the area doing mischief and petty crimes. They brought into someone truck and stole his keys, they are having the locks changed and another nieghbor had his dog out last night, he sees them he barks.

Nobody likes watermelon over everything, even bugs. any pink or red she eats first then she goes on, and ests other things, but comes back and eats it to the hard rind. More compost. She poo's over by the house behind the irises, in a pile. like a cat in a litter box.

So the summer though hot is still getting projects going on. Will start thinking about the garlic plantings soon too i will have to see to thestrawberrys she keeps digging for slugs and snails in there.

Cheers, and happy designing.
Charles.

08/02/2014

So dear BioWebScape Designers, friends, Romans and other earthlings, and if any others out there can read this, Hi there too.

Those days when you had to take those lawn machines out of the sheds, and gear up to thatch your root bound lawns, can be over. You only need to give yourself some spaced spaces. about 100 square foot fenced in spaces. Make them out of mobile moving fences, or however you like. Into each square block, Place one free range hen, or rooster. Hens can give you a kickback for their services. They will go about scratching your grass up to get at the worms and the mixed grains (cracked so they won't ruin your lawn) that you have per scattered into the spaces.

You could still get a good tended lawn, if every year for a few months you did this in your Green lawn care areas, and kept the herbicides and pesticides to a ZERO amount, Your chicken farmers would thatch for you, dig out the grub worms and the nasty odd things that might lurk there and fertilize it for you.....

This has been a BioWebScape Designs Project, public service message, given you this date 2-3 August the 43Th year of the 17th Ionillion since that last message was sent to you.

Time seems to fly when Your also doing Galaxy building lessions on another planet.... They have issues of war and famine and sickness and vile things going on there, We still try to help them.. They are slow learning this, the hard way, they had agreat teacher once, but they claimed he was dead and then when his son showed up one day they killed him just to prove their point... Ah well another day in the Universally known Galactic federation of String Clusters, All 45,324 Galaxies in our charter. I am late for a talk on Jedi Mud gardening, with Tuts and Sand.... By By By

07/29/2014

Have One(1) free range chicken in my backyard. Heaven sent her, Dad got her into the back yard. Was the weekend of the 12-13th of july. The weekend we were having a furneral for my aunt Pearl, 82 years old. I'd like to be able to grow things in her yard, but I am growing things from her yard, several flowers, that have never died out. Though none of them edible to me, but they sure are pretty. especially the Four O'Clocks..

Chicken that has no name, okay that's I got it, Her name is Nobody, you all from the movies and Henry Fonda will know the linkage to that one. RIP James Garner, who worked with Henry Fonda, for his first gig, and learned his trade craft from him. Well Nobody was off hiding in the wilds of my backyard, all of about 1/12th of an Acre, with footprints of Four(4) Sheds, One(1) wood pile for projects, Dad's domain, Even he doesn't know what all is in there now. but It has everything the handy people that we are would need if we had to building a Whole Galaxy of ideas into a something for someone. So the growing area of my 1/12th of an acre is about down to 1/20th of an acre, or about 2,000 square feet or so.. Nobody hides in there, and we can't find her, the shed's skirt's are caged off to keep local stray cats from feral activities under them, as I like my birds to be free from cat fights. But Nobody was secretive, and seeing as how God Gave me a bird we had been wondering about for a few months and then some, if we'd have space to have a few or some, so there is the mystery where is Nobody?

This morning or was it , yeah this morning we found at least one of her hiding places. literally into the maze of metal Stock piled there in the middle edge up under the Big Oak in the back yard that was just a youngin when we moved here, Under the metal shevling for outdoor potted plants and what not I grow when I want to grow something. How she gets in there, is well just a Bird's clue away from Nobody else than her and God and well birds, would know.

This afternoon about the time I was also creating a computer Virus, in my Dex-Hex language, Yes Jim, I was serious. i came out to check on something and my dad walks in with two (2) brown extra large Eggs. Like Nobody's business, The Chicken from Heaven, had been sitting Eggs, just like a good mother hen. We will see if they are any good, and have to check later to see if Nobody has been laying up my 1/20th of an acre with extra food for others.

07/08/2014

Aeroponics for those people that want to grow and have limited space. Much like having a fish breeding business you have to keep track of a lot of things, but, as the fellow says, if you have lots of people growing more of their own food you stress the over all system just a little less. Lots of this systems thinking is what the whole concept is, getting more people to do more little bits, so we have more of a chance to support the 7 plus billion people on earth. It takes time to change a whole world, but bit by bit should get us there.

http://youtu.be/H4gsnFJRAB0

Benjamin Staffeldt grew up on a farm and works in a garden center so when he and his wife Sara moved into a rental home (a duplex), it was only natural he'd ...

02/13/2014

Dear designers,

It is going to be spring here in a few days, or at least feel like it. Highs into the mid 50's and some 60's , wow. I have already pruned the mullberries. Last year they were about 5 cups of fruit on them, but most out of my reach. this year with my Father's help we cut them about 7 feet tall. The Sunchokes, aka jerusalem artichokes have been spread a bit, though I have yet to dig them out and spread them about like I had wanted too. But I have shared them with a friend, who is into the be prepared for the coming anything, side of life.

The Rope of Pearls that I bought from the Home Depot I shop at, is still with us, in the orignal pot. I don't klnow the latin name for it, they said desert Africa. I plucked one and ate it, like a bite of dew melon, but tiny like a small pearl. Not going to survive eating them, but if you have a need of that tiny bit of dew, you have a desert plant that will provide.

I am still on my limited water use doing well, so far, that garden was only watered via stored rain water or the falling snow this past year. though we were not in drought, were about +3 inches this area.

I have yet to finalize my square footage for planting this seasonally thought out things, nor planned the sea-scape and tidal pools or the delta region out the front side of the east plain. I have an idea that I can create in this 1/6 of an acre space a fully repersentive of the earth's systems and landscapes, but the design is a mutating thing anyway. I had a vision that I fed a whole family here, off this land. Not going to yet, but we are in the planning stages anyway. other people are heads and shoulders ahead of me, but only because I am to many places all at once.

As a child I had these places I would go, boxes cubical spaces where I lived, centered around a bathroom, I had a bed, and growing spaces, and I had to go work in a mine, digging out rock with a little lightsaber like device(I had not seen the movie starwars yet), with each 25 cubic feet of rock I got out of the mine I got one(1) cubic feet of added space to live in.

I have fun with the world.

Peace of Christ to you all, charles.

02/13/2014

Dear Designers,

Cold, Snow, and time to buy seeds, draw the needs of the space, and place your orders. No time to waste.

01/17/2014

Dear Designers,

As part of our planning for how to live off the land or regions where we find ourselves. We need to be aware of all the chemical footprints living near us. What with the recent West Virgina semi-toxic spill damaging thewater supply of a whole region, the Mayflower Ark. Oil pipline break last year, the place in south america that spilled toxic sludge from a containment pond, and on and on the list goes. We as people wanting to live a better lifestyle off our own lands, will have to be very aware of the industry around us, and where the water flows from their areas will impact ours. We can design the best anything only to have it go to naught when just upstream in a country or two over something like this happens and all of it flows into our area via gravity.

So make sure you know a wider still footprint of your area. and that my be a daunting task if it were not for the power of the internet and connections made via it. More on that a bit later.

03/18/2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFVTRKyl5sI

Having once lived in Iceland it is good to see they are working to do things to keep the place for the future too.

Urriðaholt (e. Urridaholt) is a new hillside community in the town of Gardabaer, Iceland. It is a pioneering development in Iceland, which has already receiv...

04/30/2012

I just looked at a few photos a fellow designer took of some of his trips, and I got to thinking, more about what I Posted on my blog and about how we seem to have been limiting ourselves here in the USA and anywhere else that we use land to live off of. Most farmers just till the flat lands, and if you look at China or the Andes, they converted hillsides into usable land long ago, before we had cars and trucks moving about. So when we are designing these Biowebscape or other growing systems, we need to not forget that things grow on walls and in stacks and things like that, or under things that don't normally get plants put there. Other's have this idea well in hand, the living walls people and the inside the buildings and underground subways folks, the thinking is out there. BUt we as the designers need to find ways to get it in the heads of the people that vote for the leaders, as well as the people that lead the rest of the world, though as designers we tend toward leadership skills ourselves., otherwise we would not be designing things , just using them. I guess that is what we are doing here online talking about it, a timeline of sorts as we get further down the road to the goals of a sustainable future made bit by bit today.

04/30/2012

I updated my blog with a post, you can check it out there, just google Biowebscape designs it will show up. There is first, here is second, as that is where most of the linkages go, and where it all started, Facebook is okay too, but I am a bit old fashioned and like my blog more. For this than not, but see the point of making linkages.

04/21/2012

Recently a friend asked my brother about an aquaculture set up, Well here is what I would do if I wanted to do that scheme.

I would find an area in my yard that got enough light for the plants I want to grow, then dig out a section of the yard to place a big enough pond liner to give the fish species enough room to grow and have room for the plants I wanted to grow. Then make it about 1.25 to 1.5 times as big as my needs, so that I have room to grow and for the fudge factor, of weather impacts that will be there, when you aren't. If you dig out the pond area from the soil you have, you can use the dirt to make the walls, and lessen the need for fill dirt to be used for making the area as deep as you want.

Use solar pumps and small battery backups, to lessen the need of having power run from your power poles, but not every day will have the sun needed to run things, so likely you will have to use power anyway, so that part is up to you and your needs. You can make shallow areas using bricks or blocks to riase the pots where your plants go and to give them room to grow and give your fish room to move about them and help them grow via the waste products that fish have in use . Feeding your fish species will have to be considered and ther is the other thing of the plants needing food that the fish can't supply, so you will have a working system that you will have to tweak a bit as you go along. The same thing happens when you have a planted fish tank in your house or shop.

The main thing to do is plan it all out on paper and have someone that knows the systems you are trying look at it first, if you don't want to have to redo things after you have gotten started, you can bypass that, if you are adventursome.

Ask me if need more help, and I will do what I can to help you.I have been a tropical fish breeder and grew plants for sale, a long while ago, in a land far away.