Backyard aquaponics as self-sustained farm in (sub)urban LA
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- čas přidán 23. 02. 2014
- Scott Henley wanted to prove he could turn the backyard of his modest Pasadena (Los Angeles) home into a working farm. To turn his 8000-square-foot backyard into a productive farm, Henley turned to aquaponics- a combination of aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics: "This is a very efficient way to grow things in a small space. And it also produces a protein source."
He farms tilapia because they breed fast. The fish waste is broken down in the water by naturally-occurring bacteria into nitrate. The plants take up the nitrates as food and the now-cleaned water is fed back to the fish and the process begins again. The only inputs are sunlight and fish food. It's an inherently organic system because any pesticides would upset the natural balance of the small ecosystem.
After less than 2 years in operation (he started in the summer of 2012), he- through Whisper Farms- now sells enough produce to restaurants, CSAs, and at the local (Altadena) farmer's market- to cover all costs and produce a small profit. His "experiment" is still not productive enough to create a salary, but he hopes that will change once he's able to sell his fish and create more of a cooperative setup with other farms (to reduce the permitting costs for selling at farmers' markets).
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"How do I grow it?"
"Just water the thing" 10/10 instructions
kinda of a douche response, they're plenty of crops that take skill to grow you dont just water crops, as you can see his farm looks grotesque
@@vladimirremmirez7671 looks like a hydroponic to me, they have access to water 24/7
You are one of my heroes, Scott! Keep doing it and hopefully your success will encourage more of us to do the same...at least to the extent of feeding ourselves.
I absolutely love these operations.
If I wasnt such a lazy procrastinator...
what's crazy is i think i've read this comment years ago, while i was king procrastinator, and totally agreed with you
tomorrow i'm getting some stuff to start my first aquaponics experiments
TVFILMBUFF lol. I thought the same. Your comment made me spit my food. Lol
This is one of the best explained videos you've posted Kirsten. Thanks!!!
This is exactly what my family has been looking into here in Utah.
Such a great point about LA's farmers' markets! So many of the farmers around here (250 miles north) ditch our local markets to drive 6 hours and make the big bucks in LA. This voids the entire concept IMHO. I especially liked this vid because it featured an average fella with an average income doing innovative work with his head and hands.
Yes!
Another good video. There isn't enough videos on this subject matter. Thank you
Good man. You have that green serenity on your face and in words. Keep doing what you are doing. Well done
Really interesting video, it's great to see people pushing this as it really is the future!
This is A.MA.ZING. I am so impressed by your cleverness and drive to do the right thing regarding the food we eat and making use of your yard. I love the way your mind is always working to come up with better ideas. GREAT JOB!!!!
Kirsten, You inspire me to want to do this kind of thing. It surely can't be easy to find all these interesting people, and stories though. I never get tired of watching your channel, its my favorite on youtube. Thanks for all the amazing videos!
Great video, I'm just investigating different methods and found your explanations very clear and on point. Thanks.
I'm doing this. I have no idea how, but I'm definitely going to watch this video several more times and do my research. thanks again Kirsten for supplying me with a wealth of information!
I love the way you build your documentaries, the sound of our world, the people that you film speaks to us like we are really there! i don´t get tired of watching your videos
i hope to have my own channel in the future, showing the birth and growth of my own place :) the information that i gather here will definitely define what i will do there, so for that i
thank you
don´t stop filming sustainability and art!
Great work! Your on the leading edge of the answers to the soon to come, food shortages. Thank you for sharing.
I love all your videos Kirsten.
I Love this guy and all the wonderful Eco-friendly concepts, he's implemented! Bravo! This is for me!! This is the future..Now!! :))
This was a great video with a wealth of information. I am inspired to do my own aquaponics system here in Thailand.
What a breath of fresh air to listen to this guy! Smart, down to earth guy...practical applications
That was a nice bit of video, thanks for sharing and keep up the good work.
I used to having scared feeling when I grew food at my backyard because it looked weird to me while our neighbors bought food from stores, and they looked at me when I picked food from my back yard to eat. But later years I thought about it and believed that they thought back then that I know how to grow food. Now I want to grow food without having weird feeling and see this gentleman is doing it, I am very excited about doing it too. Thank you for sharing this aquaponic systems.
This is inspirational. I hope to do something like this one day. Thanks so much for the video!
Very cool setup. AP is the future! I'm totally hooked on it and have built a few systems so far..
Love your vid! This is how my dad taught me, be able to grow or hunt your own food, fix your own car, make your own toys for the kid out of wood scraps, repairs any appliances at home and cook your own food! Two thumbs up to you bro.
Love his will to try to experiment with new techniques and discover what could the possible limits be to home growing with those techniques . Only thing i'd criticize is the little lack of more organization/ space optimization for some things like the compost / front garden / breeding fish tanks but meh he's doing amazing !
Yeah those skills come after you've experimented for 10 years and rebuilt your farm 3 times. Not everyone has the work ethic and endurance to withstand that struggle. But as an innovator and educator, he is the spear head to an unlimited trickle down effect.
One thought: I bet you could find someone giving away a second hen on Craigslist. That way she can have a buddy :) My chickens freak out if they become separate from the flock. I bet she would enjoy a friend!
That's awesome and very encouraging for those who are looking at doing this . I like the realistic attitude and the can do attitude .
I was doing Aquaponics before it had a word to describe it . I was interested in the fish keeping hobby since kindergarten when the Seattle aquarium brought their tide pool critters to our school and gave every child a couple of guppies to see if they could take care of them and be responsible .That was 41 years ago .Since then I've been active in the hobby and worked at a few places such as tropical fish hatcheries and a couple of pet stores . Aside from my regular trade as a communications technician .
There is amazing potential for feeding the world using this system and it's environmentally friendly aside from the costs of the power which can be solar,wind or micro hydro powered depending on where you live etc .Also using compost to heat the water is another way to reduce the price for heating water and or air temperature for a greenhouse . The beauty of the system is that it can be as simple as a couple of tanks for the average person and then the plants of course or a full scale farming operation .
It's all about the ambition of the person or people, cooperation and support ,their dedication and their abilities to make it work .
Also your entirely right about how you can scavenge things for free or low cost .I got several of my fish tanks from 10 gallo up to 200 gallons and plastic and fiberglass ponds for the price of the gas I spent .
Craigslist can be your friend if you get the jump on everyone else and most importantly follow through .
Anyway excellent video, I subbed 👍
Such an interesting video! I am lucky to live rural with some land, but living in the desert, I have my own agricultural challenges. I think it is so incredible to see that people living in the city are trying to feed themselves and be sustainable. This guy is awesome!
The floating foam is a great idea. Good work !!
Thanks for sharing!
Wulfy
Wow! Amazing work and love how you have maximized your property. Great segment.
Very creative man. I admire how you reuse scraps to build amazing things. Love the quail idea, I will be borrowing it,thanks!You wouldn't be here if you stoped trying, so keep up the great work.
I like you way of thinking man! Tanks for your great work!
Stunning and truly inspirational
Loved to see what you are doing with your fish and plants. I hope to set that up similar in Washington state. We are originally from San Diego, moved to Virginia Beach for 17 years and now we want to find a place in Washington where the air is nice. We may have to do rainbow trout instead but I am excited to show my husband what you have done. I might do much of it indoors depending on the weather and animals there. Thanks for sharing. What you are doing is smart and great for your family!
Great setup. I live in the California desert. We get cold nights here. The water for my tilapia has gotten down around 60 f and they do fine.
Ah Kirsten, how I do enjoy your videos. Such a CZcams haven!
This is the best CZcams channel, ever farming and architecture. God bless ya!!
Wow, very impressive and nicely explained. Thanks for posting this!
Awesome outlook, endeavour and ultimately pragmatism. What a dude.
Loved this, very informative. Keen to try myself, test and adjust for New Zealand conditions. Thanks for sharing
I'm really getting excited about aquaponics and urban farming in general. Hopefully in the next 5 years, there will be at least 500 interconnected urban farmers in my county that can sustain a local supply, off-grid style. Like you, I'm taking a play as I go attitude to help make aquaponics become a feasible endeavor.
Incredible! So wonderful; this guy is so smart! Ty for your video!
Outstanding mate! You have a brilliant set-up I'm in awe the best of luck to you and your family I hope you can achieve all your future goals 😊👍🏼🌿
Kristen I am FAN of your videos, keep the good work
Great video thanks 4 info I'm gonna look into this type of garden 👍👍👍
Great ideas. More videos. Thank you for your works.
Impressed with your setup, don't know much about it. Still gardening in the grow and moving to raised bed this spring. Legally impaired at hobby stage. Thanks sharing...
This is a great set up! Awesome work!
This video introduced me to Moringa trees. Ended up buying seeds on ebay to try them out:) thanks
That was really fun to watch. And I agree, this is a better model for civilization. I mean, it's only a start - how it would shake out remains to be seen, but I really like the healthy efficiency.
Now that's love of ones hobby. Amazing job!!
5:51 whooo boy, that power strip just hanging next to a big bucket of water is probably fine
just watched your video . I started in 1993 . I had a conventional farm . paid off my market garden farm in 6 years. I have two big cash crops on my farm ginger and small cucumbers . Tomatoes peppers and eggplant round off my offerings. I live in the Binghamton , NY area. now that i m 68 years old I want to try hydroponic strawberries and lettuce. My back is too tired out to do cucumbers and tomatoes any more :)
Great works, big inspiration,starting now. Give thanks bro.
Hey I'm in LA too! I love that your experimenting with wasabi! I've just introduced it to my setup about 2 months ago and had some complications at first but now it seems to be growing great. I think the biggest problem with wasabi is that it prefers cold temperatures but then you have the fish that like warm temps so your going to have conflict with tilapia. I had to switch over from my goldfish to koi
you are doing a great job dude! keep sharing
Very interesting! Thank you for making this video!
Everyone should grow some of their own food
INSPIRING!! Thank you Sir!
good and informative. producing organic food materials AT BACKYARD IS INCREDIBLE
Brilliant and educational video. Thanks for sharing and Ill use much of your wisdom.
“It’s incremental” hits hard. It’s true. Step by step.
Excellent video. Thanks. Thinking about my own back yard system. Southern Caribbean. It's 2018 now, so I guess you will be adding a few CS plants to garden.
Great job Scott. Very interesting. Have you considered a tired system, the same floor space can become 2 or 3 times the surface area! Good luck with the R&D.
Kool set up bro! !
awesome... need it to feed myself in general. Love the idea
I would really enjoy meeting you guys as one of your Nieghbors. I really appreciate your enthusiasm for what your doing and would like to learn more about what you do
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing
"I'm having a real problem struggling" hell yea Scott, hell yea.
very nice video. thanks for sharing.
Thank u for your personal information, I will be starting mines
Nice setup. Probably the best way to grow food in such drought-prone regions.
This guy is someone I'd want to be with during a zombie apocalypse.
we are already there at the zombie apocalypse, as in pretty much all the countries in the world have a zombie government just driving us towards insanity.
What kind of world do we live in when farmers cannot afford to farm..... think about it!
People have used these techniques for 1000's of years (directly growing fish with plants in many cases). The technology simply improves the process.
hmu when it happens I got your back
Pretty ingenuous, keep up the battle
I am amazed that the County/City hasn't shut you down (I am from San Diego and had to leave cause of the police state), thanks for the video. I am in McCall Idaho and will be raising trout. Great info
Muito bom meu amigo...Very good my friend!!!!! LIKED!!!!
What is the operating cost verses the profits of an aquaponics setup. Estimates on any size will do, thanks in advance.
This is definitely a part of the future for food security and employment. Back to basics.
Looking good man. Keep it up.
Wow what a great video to get ya thinking. =)
impressive,i really love it.
Having my greens every day in my apt .... aquaponics is the answer !
Awesome. Miringa is a miracle
your doing a great job, if there were more people like you the world would be a better place, keep up the good work,from england
nice i just heard of whisper farm from a friend at a hydroponic store. looking to get my own aquaponics system set up soon
this is really impressive :)
Absolutely wondaful!
You could use compost heater to heat the water, making the cost of heating just material for the compost heater and labor costs.
very inspiring video. would love to learn how to replicate this in my backyard in Glendale.
Wonderful camera quality
Yes that's COOL!!! self Help!!! not to bad But what the hell do I know???
That would depend on your circumstances, and what you are willing to change. :-)
michaelnew1962 Ah yes? Agreed!!!
i love it
interesting points ,if anyone else needs to find out about
aquaponic systems plans pdf
try Proutklarton Surviving Instruction Plan (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my colleague got amazing success with it.
Well done fella.
Awesome system! Thanks for the video. Just a little correction: the calculation for the electric is way off. 80+90 = 170W, not 1.7kW. I heard the 1.7kW and if those ran 24x7, that would be about $2000/yr in electric. 170W is more like $200/yr (@14¢/kWh).
its a nice setup you have there. Keep it up :-)
Another great video.
this is awesome, thanks for sharing yu make great videos
Good insights.
K Dirksen
You have performed WELL
Moringa is awesome!!
Great video.
You can use black soldier fly larvae as fish and chicken food. The larva lives on rotten fruit.
I don't know if Tilapia eats water greens. If so, you can use some duckweed as food for the fishes as they are easy and fast to grow.
+Ari Khorshid
exactly what I was going to say
and they also eat meat , and the matured fly's have no mouths their only goal is to lay eggs and die ...
Awesome man I think it’s awesome
Aquaponics is so interesting