Friday the 10 th December 2010

Aquaponics is a farming method inspired by ancient farming systems from the Aztecs to Egypt, based on the recycling of nutrients in nature. In the aquaponic fish tank, the fish consume food and excrete manure, algea grows in the nutrient-rich water, and uneaten fish food falls to the bottom. These unused nutrients would....(This is from a site that seemingly has not been updated for two years UNFORTUNATELY.But maybe the drive toward A/P is still strong there. Lets hope so...) Aquaponics for Kids. At The Kids Culinary Academy of Vermont ... Vermont summer camp instruction for kids (ages 10-17) at The Kids CulinarY....
 (This next one might be a bit unsettling but needs to be addressed)

You know whats cool? Aquaponics.

This may seem like a random post, considering that this blog focuses on my fight with Crohns disease and my decision to use hookworms as my drug of choice.  But, if you consider that it was my interest in better gardening methods that opened my mind to trying helminthic therapy, methinks this post makes sense.

While talking to a college student the other day about his major in Environmental Studies, the conversation turned to the topic of aquaponics - a new word for me.

 How Much Seaweed Extract... Who Do You Call.........

Aquaponics - Duckweed. Duckweed! I finally got hold of some. Ive been looking around for it for ages, but all the plant stores stock a plant that isnt really duckweed. Every single nursery...

aquaponics philippines feb 2009 | Hydroponic Gardening Review
fish,rabbit, chicken ,duck and veg system, Aquaponics is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment. Alternate definition:

NorCal Aquaponics is one of the first in the world to offer systems, trainings, knowledge and experience in a Permaculture based Aquaponics design methodology, we call "the Meyers System"!

HOW TO... Set Up Aquaponics, from Videomanic 

First Pick Affnans Aquaponics They are ripening, those Tomatoes are ripening and I pick a few.

This is a little demo system that I have built outside of my house and an explaination as to what the hell Aquaponics is.. Also my project will...

Aquaponics Student shows aquaponics sustainable hydroponics aquaculture.

From GREENANSWERS

Nitrosamines are found in fish as well many other animals, and they break down Ammonia into nitrates that plants love.  The bacterium cultivates in the gravel, so a smart move to make in any aquaponics set up is to run the water cycle through several times and check the flow.  A completely self-rotating.....

Aquaponics: How to eat healthy and support the environment

Friendly Aquaponics Tim Mann and Susanne Friend share the results of their work developing efficient and sustainable

55 GAL indoor aquaponics My 55 Gal planted/fish aquarium converted to aquaponics. I have a 10 Gal tote above with pea gravel and a bell autosiphon.

Course Description
This bilingual Aquaponics and Permaculture 10-day intensive December includes 10 days of outdoor classroom instruction, and hands-on experience at the Aquaponics mini-farm located at the beautiful Ecovillage Resort of Finca Las Nubes. Students will learn about Aquaponics, Permaculture, experience luxurious eco-village living, and much more from experienced trainers & professionals sharing their knowledge and experience in Aquaponics, Permaculture, land restoration, tropical food forest, social justice and self sufficiency. You will learn the skills needed to,,,

We are loaded to deliver another School Kit.
This particular kit has 3 x 1250 ltr tanks with viewing windows, 4 x 585 ltr gravel beds and 2 x floating raft, three x 230 ltr fingerling tanks.
Plus all plumbing , pumps and so on.
Aquaponics is a wonderful educational tool that is for sure.
We decided to fill one of the tanks a few days back and throw a few fish in for some photos. See attached photos.

Please can I stop? I actually went to sleep in front of T.V. Then had to try and sharpen myself up for this. Now my eyes are saying ENOUGH ALREADY.
So I think I had better heed the warning. Hope you get a lot out of this one
Soon Guys & Gals,
OZZIE

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Oh dear Where did Friday go

Apologies my friends, weve had a mishap.  Our Bobcat got bogged in the mud. Since the flood weve had a few nights of rain and the ground we normally can work/drive on had taken all the wet it could handle. So my mate drove into a scrubby area to remove an old motor and when he went to turn the bobcat she dug into the ground and the mud just swallowed half of each of the four wheels.

Well we tried for three hours to get it out with a 2 ton car jack and lots of timber, then we had the guy at the back of our place with his tractor to give us a hand. They have trotters and their own training track. But the tractor was only two wheel drive with a small motor and it didnt even budge the bobcat. eventually we got the thing out and finished the work but by then Friday was a gone chicken.

So here I go with the new WEEKEND Issue... Please Enjoy:



Upscale, Democratize, and Internationalize Aquaponics

(Event is in the planning stage; more details coming soon!)

Sweet Water Organics announces it’s very first winter workshop. Here’s your chance to discuss sustainable agriculture with some of the best and brightest creative minds. Participating organizations include:

University of Wisconsin’s School of Fresh Water Science

Columbia University School of Architecture and Urban Design

Stirling University and Aquaponics UK

The Aquaponics Source, organizer of AquaponicsCommunity.com

Milwaukee Department of Community Development

What: Winter Workshop One

When: Friday, January 21 - Sunday January 23

THE REST OF THE DETAILS INSIDE...

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Kaiser Permanente to "Walk the Walk" with Hawaii island school garden network

Community to come together on Martin Luther King, Jr. "day of service" to promote healthy living.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:40 AM HST

Kaiser Permanente Hawaii physicians and clinic staff will set aside their sterile medical garb, equipment and working environment and, instead, get down and dirty working in the dirt - volunteering in Hawaii Island school gardens to celebrate the 25th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. "Day of Service" on Monday, Jan. 17. In doing so, they hope to practice....

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Start Your Aquaponics Greenhouse Now! (WITH VIDEO)....

 

Life, the universe and everything

Taking students out of the classroom to do ‘real’ research and pairing their teachers with those working in the field is getting children enthused about science’s possibilities

It is Tuesday morning and a double-free for a group of Year 12s. But instead of lounging around the common room or catching up in the library, 30 maths, ICT and science pupils have given up their free time to look at satellite images of the River Mersey.
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Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference Planned for March
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 01/14/2011

Fish Farmers from Wisconsin and around the midwest will be meeting this winter for the 16th Annual Wisconsin Aquaculture Conference. The March 11-12 event will be held at the Country Springs Hotel & Waterpark in Pewaukee.

The conference will feature aquaponics, marketing, pond management, aeration, fish processing, economics, species breakout groups and more. Several out of state speakers are attending, including Dr. Gary Jensen, Dan Deisenroth, Dr. Robert Kim and and Henry Clifford....

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Hands-on agriculture at KI school

PAULA THOMPSON

14 Jan, 2011 03:00 AM

KANGAROO Island High School students are getting a hands-on agricultural experience through KI Community Educations Parndana campus.Agriculture teacher Trevor Bolwell said there was a working farm adjacent to the school where students were taught a broad range of subjects related to the industry.
"The kids are involved with prime lamb production and run a feed-lot, so they have to go through and work out rations," he said.
They also learn about aquaponics through a barramundi growing-out facility.
Attached to the facility is a recycling system where the waste water is transported to trays with various seedlings including herbs, spinach, beans and lettuce.

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‘Living Food BankTM’ to Provide Fresh Fish and Vegetables in Haiti
The Living Food Bank, developed by Nelson and Pade, Inc, produces fresh fish and vegetables..MORE
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VIDEO: GrowHaus in Denver Colorado - The Urban Conversion and Aquaponics...VIDEO...
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From Squidoo: My aquaponic organic garden
Could Aquaponics gardening make our wishes (at least some of them) come true? Dont we all wish to have organic food for ourselves and our family members to eat healthy and without any preservatives? Wouldnt you like to have the opportunity to go to your backyard and pickup your organic fruit and vegetables for your daily use without thinking about how much it would cost you? If the answer is yes then your wish could come true very soon. ...

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Good morning, aquapons,
 If you havent dropped by to visit our Aquaponic Gardening community lately, you might want to.  It is a bustling place with over 800 members now!
 And you now have a new option for following our activity - Hootsuite! Hootsuite is a very popular social media aggregator for monitoring Facebook, Twitter, etc. all in one place.  Now you can add our community to what you follow, and make updates directly from your Hootsuite desktop.  Just click here for simple instructions to get started.
 Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.
 Sylvia
 (Hey if youre not a member...Why Not....Editor)

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( Im sure I had this shop in the Digest several months ago.....)
FARM: shop - East Londons radical experiment in food growing and community building

David Hawkins
FARM: shop in Dalston is a revolutionary new take on urban food self-sufficiency: a cafe and community hub with its own rooftop chicken coop, pigs and floating garden
    FARM: shop is a place where people can interact with farming

Just along from the new Dalston Junction train station, opposite East London standard issue billboards and a fried-chicken shack, stands the pleasing facade of a freshly revived shopfront. Yet this isnt the usual tedium of homogenized gentrification

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Afnans Aquaponics - Nothing in Particular - General Update
One Tilapia missing. It was eight, today only seven left. Need to investigate what happen, I dont think cats will take fish in water. Previous batch survive and none was missing.(VIDEO)

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 HOW TO START YOUR OWN BUSINESS -
Your business can be a daunting task, because most of the work requires special skills and tones of money to invest. While you can acquire the necessary skills, money is not easy to solve the problem. However, there is a business that requires investment, and the minimum is repaid in less than a year. It called Aquaponics agriculture or Aquaponic can change your life and well.
Aquaponics includes the cultivation of vegetables with water from the aquarium. You just have to wait for the fish tank in a square, about a month to supply enough water organic nutrients for plants, so the spread....(MORE)
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Shop Growfresh Organics and More online
on Jan 15 in News | ShareThis

Growfresh Organics and More is proud to bring online Arkansas’ first and only hydroponics and aquaponics e-commerce site. Arkansas was once a pioneer in bringing aquaponics sytems into school systems in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas. We are glad to now bring information and products for these fantastic systems to the retail market online and in the store at 2600 South Zero Street in Fort Smith. If you are just now learning about hydroponics and aquaponics or if you are a seasoned veteran, we...MORE

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Well I caught up.... Sorry again for the delayed report, but thats farming I guess. If it can go wrong....
See you soon, Take Care....
A U S S I E

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FRIDAY 17th DECEMBER 2010

Well we are in the middle of what could be one of the stories of the century and this is WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his release on bail and what is going to be THE ongoing saga. But meanwhile we have our own Internet developments to deal with. So........ Here we goooooo.....


"IN AUGUST 2006 FRUITA 8/9 SCHOOL OPENED. AS NEW CONSTRUCTION, IT WAS BUILT "FOR COMFORT" AND WASNT NECESSARILY EVER CONSIDERED TO BE ENERGY STAR QUALIFIABLE. HOWEVER, AFTER THREE YEARS OF GIFTED AND TALENTED STUDENTS EFFORTS COMBINED WITH AN ENERGY AUDIT AND CORRECTIONS, FRUITA 8/9 BECAME ENERGY STAR QUALIFIED ON MARCH 31, 2010.
Colorado Aquaponics is conserving water is by growing greens like basil and lettuce in the same container as fish. They both thrive together. The nutrients..... "

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From Growing Organic Food, "Help! Why do leaves curl at the tip?

Does anyone know why baby/young leaves curl in an Aquaponics system? Or just curl in general??"

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Next, I made mention of the Disney Grants a short time ago. Now this report. 

ECOLIFE wins Disney grant to build farm in Cameroon

/ Courtesy of ECOLIFE

One of two aquaponics systems operated by ECOLIFE, a local nonprofit group.

Escondido-based conservation group ECOLIFE has secured funding from Disney to build an unusual farm in Cameroon that combines growing fish and vegetables in a system that recirculates water...

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Aquaponics and other things

Saturday, December 11, 2010

The end of the experiment

Some discussion first of the effect of the big rains we have had recently . Basically we have had a very wet season

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From Afnan....

Asparagus Update - 11th Dec 2010

Transplant most of the Asparagus to growbed after the first survived 4th Dec ordeal. Left a few in nursery gravel bed and Ill wait and see what happen....


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From 120 things....

Aquaponics - Duckweed growth rate

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I hadnt noticed my duckweed growing, because I tend not to notice such things. But when you compare two photos taken a week apart, i....

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Now for something quite exciting, and make sure you take note of the time from setup to harvest, WOW....

Aquaponic Bananas

By TCLynx, on December 6th, 2010

Don’t they say it takes 14 months to get fruit from a banana? Well apparently my Aquaponics system and my banana plant didn’t read that book....

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What is Aquaponics?

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Aquaponics is a relatively new approach to food production that cultivates fish and plants in a symbiotic relationship. The OrganicNation.tv crew traveled to Flanagan, Illinois where Myles Harston of AquaRanch Industries has been working with aquaponics 1992.....

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 Permaculture and Aquaponics
Perhaps I should mention that one of my primary goals in beginning my aquaponics venture is to include permaculture into the mix.
My ultimate goal is to take the full-boat permaculture course from Permaculture Visions in Australia, but in the meantime....

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 Next, Here is a bit of a giggle from Murray Hallums Forum about people who live in or come from Canada

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From the "Place Where PDFs Live" a plethera of Pdfs for your enjoyment and edification....

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From "Aquaponic-Farm.com"
What is Aquaponics
The simple explanation:? You have a fish and you have the plant (s). The plant will live in some kind of container similar to what you can expect normal (except for not using the land you used to). The fish live in a different container. The plant to get this water from.....

Aquaponics - Decorate Your House With Growing Vegetables

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Grow Fish and Vegetables in Your Garage With Aquaponics

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Aquaponics - The New QWay of Growing Plants - Fast

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Basic Things You Need to Know About Aquaponics

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There we go - All done for now
Take Care
OZZIE

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Friday and We are all a Bit Sick of this Weather

So I guess most of us are wondering what is the next weather installment. Well not me, Ive had all the weather I need. So Ill just sit here and get on with work:


It occurred to me a couple of days ago that I had never written anything reviewing my Friendly Aquaponics Commercial Training experience.  It was a profound four days in my life and yet I have never chronicled it.  I think I finally will now.

We arrived in Kona late Saturday night after grounded planes and nearly missed flights.  We were tired but excited as we drove from the airport up to Waimaia where we were staying.  Tomorrow we would go to the farm tour and then the class would start on Monday.  We slept well, but cold in the little Hawaiin hotel room with no heat.  It was dipping into the 40s there at night and we Florida girls were freezing!  The next morning we headed out for breakfast and to go to the farm tour.

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Gardening by the use of an aquaponic system will enable you to cultivate plants along with aquatic life, and starting out at a small scale will allow you to get started without the need for significant amount of expence or maintenance. Understanding the benefits will help you to determine what type of system is best for your needs.

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Food Justice Workshop at GrowHaus
The GrowHaus of Denver and Hazon invite you to a special Food Justice Workshop with Nigel Savage and alumni from Hazon’s food conference on Sunday, February 6th, 1:00-4:00pm.  Come join “Hazoniks” of Colorado and friends for a tour, discussion, and volunteering at the GrowHaus in west Denver. The GrowHaus serves fresh fruits and vegetables that they grow in their cutting-edge aquaponics greenhouse system to a large community in a food desert in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood.

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Aquaponics in Education, Inspiration, and Community Building
By slywoman
Video of the presentation I gave at the Sweet Water Organics Workshop titled Aquaponics in Education, Inspiration, and Community Building.

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Aquaponics 101-Part One: The Process
This is the first of a series of articles that are going to teach you most of what you would need to know about Aquaponics to build and maintain your own system. These articles are part of a book we are writing and will eventually be selling on our website at www.aquaponicsusa.com

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How to build a basic Aquaponics System
A basic guide on how to build your own Aquaponic system. This is sytem is based on the barrel ponic and S&S setup and was built by me in the summer of 07?.
I have been very pleased with my DAYMAK AUSTIN electric motor bike. This is the fourth season of riding around the city streets and local highways. I have had a few electrical/electronic issues which I repaired quickly...

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[WATCH]: Aquaponics Greenhouse Tour
This is a Harbor Freight 10×12 greenhouse that is used for an aquaponics system. It’s not as big as my regular garden, but I can start it 2 months earlier! Thanks for viewing! For more info, see my blog at web4deb.blogspot.com or http Also “like” us on Facebook by searching for “Bigelow Brook Farm” 


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Barrel Aquaponics Workshop
If you want to get started producing a constant supply of fish, rabbits, chickens, vegetables, herbs, greens and other plants in an efficient, inexpensive small-scale system, plan to attend the Aquaponics training in Starksboro, Vermont.

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Lynn labor leaders look to form workers co-op
LYNN - Two local labor leaders want to start a worker-owned cooperative in Lynn, modeled after a successful one in Spain, as a way to create jobs and wealth for the citys working class.
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The GrowHaus: Building A Community Around Food In Elyria-Swansea
Growhaus
"What I really see here is a hub for community development, a place where we support and inspire the neighborhood," says Adam Brock, of Northeast Denvers GrowHaus.
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Community Calendar
11:30 a.m. Feb. 1, Savannah Morning News Auditorium, 1375 Chatham Parkway. James C. McCurry Jr., director of administration at Georgia Ports Authority, will be speaking on the Port of Savannah and the Savannah Harbor Deepening Project. Cost: $11. For information, call 912-644-6434 or go to
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Diy Aquaponics - Very Easily Make Your Aquaponics System.
If you are seeking any sample Aquaponics Layout you could follow then Im planning to place you in the right direction. There are a lot of different types of aquaponics tanks & gardens, hence you have to consider which you would like to select. The best way to begin this would be to work with a DO IT YOURSELF guideline
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My DIY Aquaponics REVIEW-Organic Gardening Secret
If you are wondering about My DIY Aquaponics REVIEW , Mydiyaquaponics.com reputation, or...
is My DIY Aquaponics SCAM or The Real Deal? Youve come to the right place.
With aquaponics it is simple to grow 10X the quantity of plants within the same space a garden would normally take. This step-by-step guide continues to be engineered to obtain your personal aquaponics system ready to go to help you produce your personal produce with 1/10th the quantity of work. Certified Organic Food that tastes great! ...[more details]
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Movement in the Bottoms: Operation Canned Spinach!
Starting a grassroots urban farm with little means on a small plot of industrial wasteland with soil so toxic you can’t put any seeds in the ground is no small feat. However, for a small African American community in the Village Bottoms district of West Oakland, being able to feed themselves

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 Well, Thats a wrap - For Now
Be Back Soon
A U Z Z I E

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