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Portable Farms in Escondido, CA

anyone have any dealings with this outfit? I noticed that their was a talk done by them on the events page. they are close by where I am but I am put off by the fact that their website alarms my virus protection system when I log on. Anybody know anything about them??

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Permalink Reply by Sylvia Bernstein on July 16, 2011 at 1:04pm

Thanks Averan and Harold! I especially love the parasite vs symbiotic relationships - perfect analogy!

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Permalink Reply by TCLynx on July 16, 2011 at 1:46pm

What I find especially sad is that some of the Parasites seem to have actually spawned a second generation who might actually want to help people and perhaps even think they are doing something good though they are quite frankly still clueless and yet producing "educational materials" for sale to make a buck while supposedly saving the planet.

It is great when people take the time to have a search around and ask questions before being sucked in so it is wonderful that there are places like this for that to happen. (Thank you Sylvia.)

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Permalink Reply by Growzay on July 18, 2011 at 12:16pm

Very well stated - from beginning to end-

Harold Sukhbir said:

Hi Sylvia,

I'm sure you started up with the intention of helping others educating them about AP and this naturally grew into assisting them with hardware items etc. Your genuine intention of helping is what I'm referring to. These "aqua-shysters" are simply greedy people with driven self interest and have absolutely no concern for others whatsoever, they couldn't care less how many people they have to hurt to satisfy themselves. I especially like the good bad and the ugly, attempting to protect people from these scams. So we are both saying the same thing. Personally i consider myself very fortunate to be guided to this site and to have met a great bunch of caring people, which is a very rare thing in this world today!

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Permalink Reply by Averan on July 18, 2011 at 1:09pm

Their newsletter they just sent out today announces that they will be launching a new website with access to more information based on a subscription model. What cracks me up is that at the end of the newsletter they try to sell these insane high-heel shoes with micro fish tanks in the soles with fish in them!! I think the fish are plastic, but still what a crazy gimmick, trying to sell this kind of crap.

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Permalink Reply by Sylvia Bernstein on July 18, 2011 at 1:17pm

I am SO going to wear those at the aquaponics conference!

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Permalink Reply by Harold Sukhbir on July 18, 2011 at 1:19pm

Hi Growzay,

Good to know what's really up! There are people on this site(you'll know them as they are always helping others) who have helped me for the past year and are always ready to do so and the funny thing is money has never been in this equation whatsoever! Here its never been about who knows more or who is smarter than who, its always been about how can we help each other. I know I'm probably not going to find this anywhere else! I do know that we won't need to ever hold these "shysters" accountable as they reap a reward by their own actions! We can make ourselves happy or we can bring ourselves a great deal of pain, the choice is freely available to everyone.

Growzay said:

Very well stated - from beginning to end-

Harold Sukhbir said:
Hi Sylvia,

I'm sure you started up with the intention of helping others educating them about AP and this naturally grew into assisting them with hardware items etc. Your genuine intention of helping is what I'm referring to. These "aqua-shysters" are simply greedy people with driven self interest and have absolutely no concern for others whatsoever, they couldn't care less how many people they have to hurt to satisfy themselves. I especially like the good bad and the ugly, attempting to protect people from these scams. So we are both saying the same thing. Personally i consider myself very fortunate to be guided to this site and to have met a great bunch of caring people, which is a very rare thing in this world today!