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Aquaponics: 20,000 lbs of Fish + 70,000 Vegetables per 1/4 Acre with Portable Farms
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1,000% more productive than conventional gardening & farming. The most robust, most scalable Aquaponics system in the world is the Portable Farms™ Aquaponics System. Maxed out, you can produce 240,000 vegetables and 92,000 pounds of fish per acre, using up to 95% less water and no dirt. These are locally grown, organic, vine ripened vegetables and the freshest of the fresh Tilapia, Catfish or Salmon.
Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture (fish farming) and hydroponics (growing plants in water only), in a carefully designed, hyper-productive closed-loop system. There is no pesticide, no fungicide, no fertilizer, no watering the garden, no bending down to weed the garden, and you produce food year round, no matter the climate or soil conditions. This can work in the Sahara Desert or in Antarctica.
Using this system, each 25 SF of grow space can feed one adult 25% of their protein and all of their table vegetables, year round, forever! On-site local food production is the ultimate form of food storage.
Anyone can install a backyard version of one of these hyper-productive Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems in their backyard/rooftop/patio and grow with more abundance. It is time to solve hunger worldwide, through creating local food abundance.... Anyone can do it, once you learn how.
You can access their website at: portablefarms.com
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Much cheaper to build it yourself. I spent 2,500 and I am feeding 21 people all year long with enough to carry me well past winter.
Tim Hark How'd you do it? Please share with those of us that would like to do the same. This concept seems perfect for running at a homeless shelter or food kitchen!
+Tim Hark teach me
+Tim Hark for those who are so good at 'DIY' then make it yourself but if I am not good at it and want to buy it from him , it is not too much to pay for ecological system that helps the world.
If we stopped to be so cheapskate and jealous of other peoples inventions and thought more of the world as he seems to be thinking then the world would be a better place
+Hon Sombody I made mine myself, with almost zero experience. I just researched the crap out of aquaponics and set up a little system myself. Over time, I kept adding new bits/pieces to it. Now, I have a system that cost maybe $358 originally....and then with additions another $600....to feed my family of 6 all year, plus have tons extra left over for a farmer's market if I wanted some bonus money (I make around $3k per market I attend, and I attend 3 per yr).
This is not counting our bee hives (just turn a spout for honey) that we did NOT make, the maple trees (syrup is costly here), the orchard (~10 different types of trees), solar panels (these were cheap and easy to install - don't be scared!), chickens, 2 goats, and many other things. We originally had it all set up in Utah (ick) but wound up moving to GA and had to start over. We originally ONLY had 1/4th of an acre and had all of this on our land before - but it was really tight. NOW, we have over 13.5 acres and it's a lot nicer.
Basically, we make a shitton of money off of what we have done and I'm lazy as hell. I made sure to tailor it to OUR needs. That's the key. YOUR needs are different than mine. I wanted 100% almost no maintenance/work. That's what we wound up with. I spend maybe 1-2 hrs a week outside checking things over to make sure it's all producing correctly. I don't even hand feed the fish anymore, and made an automatic feeder. (I wanted to be self-sufficient without having to "work" at it too much, after 3 yrs we are truly self-sufficient...aside from net. I need internet and TV. I can't commit to going completely off the grid because of this.)
Alysrian Xian obviously you are good at doing things , not everyone is. Nor do I want to do it either if someone can sell me ready made what I want ... Hate to reinvent the wheel ... Heck if there is a good cake in a shop I would not bake mine.
I am good at what I do and I hope people would buy or employ me for my work ...I in turn employ the person who can do better job of other stuff than I can do ... Each to their own talents.
but if someone is capable of doing things then by all means do it. and good for you ...
I agree. You know what I enjoy the most of my tiny aquaponics home setup? The plentiful supply of fresh leafy greens. Just walking outside and plucking all kinds of leaves and then chopping up to throw in a pasta. You don't even need to wash the leaves as nothing was ever sprayed on them, I just Love it. You should set up a small system for yourself, it's a very satisfying hobby :)
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He took credit for all aquaponics because he was cleaning pools in college.This seemed like a very bold statement on his end.... Nice one Edison!
A good way to get started in the growing of your own vegetables is to own a Tower Garden. We have 3 and they provided 80% of our vegetables this past summer. In fact, we have one in our dining room right now which, with the help of grow lights, is producing for us here in Kansas, even in January. And it's easy peasy and will pay you back abundantly after your initial investment for a technology that will last for years.
I have read several articles lately about aquaponics and I am very impressed. Using this method people can produce large amounts of produce and fish with much less water used than traditional farming methods.
I think that if we use this technology on a large scale, we can produce millions of pounds of all kinds of seafood, in a cost effective, hygenic and humaine way. Plus the vegetables or any other plants.
I wasn't poking holes in the system, I was pointing out that the post I was replying to was ridiculous for saying it would be more efficient to just feed the food to people rather than to the fish. Second I was giving the mathematical model proving that aquaponics works better than both hydroponics alone and aquaculture alone. I have my own aquaponic system going and have been running for just about a year. It's a great system and I just recently made my first tilapia harvest.
I am SO impressed.
Thank you, Sir.
Our family has a half-section of land (320 acres) in a family corporation. We may very well try this.
THANK you.
It is true that our country as a whole has an obesity problem, but we also have a hunger problem. My wife is a professor of education who recently had one of her masters degree students tell her of a health class in which he had his students keep a food journal. The day the assignment was announced, one student came to see him after school to ask who would be reading this journal because he didn't want his friends to know that he doesn't eat on Wednesdays or Fridays.
I can only whole heartedly agree with you. I have seen in Burma and in your National Geographic 1970s edition magazine, the floating gardens of Burma which are actually floating strips of woven rice mats with a thin layer of river mud and silt place in the middle and seedlings and seeds are planted on down and these floating gardens of river mud and silt covered floating woven rice mats are anchored on bamboo poles to the bottom. But the greatest ability of this ancient centuries old Burmese invention is that regardless whether it rains or not, regardless if floods occurs or not, it will always receive it's required nutrients from the water and from the river mud and silt placed on top of it and IT WILL FLOAT EITHER UPWARDS OR DOWNWARDS DURING THE RAINY SEASON SO THE PROBLEM OF FLOODING AND DROUGHT IS SOLVED!
An another invention is the ancient Incan chinampa agricultural system which are artificial floating islands made by woven mats of thin wood poles and placed on top one after the other and filled with lake mud and silt and planted with willows at the edges to secure against erosion. Regardless of the weather and climate conditions the yields are always consistently three times higher than conventional land based agriculture and you can get 7 to 8 crops a year AND THAT WAS ACHIEVED IN ANCIENT TIMES BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORES. No GMOs, no hybrids, no chemical fertilizers, no chemical pesticides or any chemical cides whatsoever. They only use organic natural heirloom seed varieties and plant cuttings and organic fertilizers from the crop residues, the falling leaves of the willow trees which simultaneously creates a kind of micro-climate which is beneficial to plant growth, mud and silt from the lake, and anti-pesticidal plants and anti-disease plants that prevents insects, parasites, snails, blight from harming their food crops and medicinal herbal pharmacological naturopathic crop plants.
Not bad parenting, bad economy. Dad's a line worker who got downsized when his company got bought and the jobs were shipped over seas, Mom's working 2 minimum wage (or slightly above) jobs, there're 3 kids and barely enough money to pay the rent. And you are right, this country is the breadbasket of the world, there's something wrong with our society when there's more than enough food but a lot of it is being thrown away at end of shift and people are still going hungry.
Aquaponics is probably the farming technique of the future.
People should go to bed hungry. I lost 60 lbs and got back to my weight in high school. I did it by consuming the MDR of Na, Mg, Cl, K, Ca. This stops cramps and hunger. I graphed my weight every day. If I was too heavy, I did not eat. Now I weigh myself and my food daily, and only eat enough to bring my weight to 167 lbs. I am always hungry. If I eat enough so I do not go to bed hungry, I put on weight at the rate of 3 lbs a day. Before I know it, I am right back at 227 lbs.
I have a BS in Chemistry from UC Berkeley, and had the top scores on the organic chemistry finals.
I also have a BS in Chemical Engineering from CSULB with a 3.8 GPA. I made the President's List.
All in all, the best part is plucking your leaves and knowing you don't need to even wash them, because no chemical herbicide /pesticide was ever sprayed on your edibles. Plus I can't wait until my fish are pan-sized! Yummm
The only concern of mine is that there are great minds of the past and their knowledge has yet to be replicated. they learned through generations and history. Most were vegetarian or at least knew that the Chinese would put anything in a pot and this is how we got our seafood in our vocabulary. Slowly we turned from vegetables to animals and seafood.
I think if you live in an area that's warm enough for Tilapia then the duckweed becomes fish food. I saw a preppers show where they were putting chicken waste into the water to feed the duckweed to feed the fish to feed the plants. So all the system required was chicken food and it produced eggs, chicken, fish & vegies.
the only concern of mine is that there are great minds of the past and their knowledge has yet to be replicated. they learned through generations and history. Most were vegetarian or at least knew that the Chinese would put anything in a pot and this is how we got our seafood in our vocabulary. Slowly we turned from vegetables to animals and seafood.
I appreciate people like this. How about we get more funding for these people instead of the corporate tax breaks for Argo-business that serves us genetically modified foods.
Never give up the fight to be free from them.
This is the future of food sovereignty and food security.
And here we are a decade later and it’s rare for anyone to know the term AQUAPONICS.
Aeroponics is a great choice too...
This is really great and I think if these were to be put in every large city in America we would see a dramatic increase in healthier eating habits. Or possibly have McDonald's use these to grow their own vegetables and hire a worker or two to keep it maintained. They are cost and energy efficient, so the price of the food they produce would be more affordable.
Great system you've got! :) Keep doing what you're doing!
Thanks for your comments. We have azolla at the pool that is for a purpose of a water reservoir for fruit trees. So the trees are nearby the pool. No commercial fish eat azolla to my knowledge. Ducks can consume after some if it is chopped to smaller pieces. Catfish is the easiest to keep as they grow very quick and do not need oxygen in water. It may be expensive to saturate water by oxygen in hot days when water may go above 35 deg C. A problem is without a fance the fish escape from the pool
The potential here is so very exciting! People can troll on it if they want to but the facts remain, if we don't do something quickly we won't be here to troll.
It is time for everyone to learn this technology. If you don't want to buy this then research and make your own. I think this system looks to be about the nicest I have seen. Imagine filling a skyscraper with this tech. How much can you grow then?
You'll notice he doesn't publish the cost for the "system" that can produce the 20,000 pounds of fish and 70,000 vegetables per 1/4 acre? That's because it's around 2,000 square feet of raft or grow bed area, and it requires a 3,200 square foot greenhouse (unless you're in Hawaii like us!); it would cost $35,000+/- in DIY form, and about $110,000 turnkey if you have someone build it. Only his "kits" cost far more than that. His fish figures are impossible with an aquaponics system that size; you'd need an additional aquaculture system costing about another $30,000 to raise those fish in, plus 35,000 pounds of fish food. From a professional in the business who knows better, Tim Mann, Friendly Aquaponics in Hawaii.
Are you just being a "naysayer" or have you gone through the logistics and accounting on their website? If you gave this have a chance, you would see that there are full pro forma financials on their website. Unfortunately, from my experience, people who are "in the business" (any business) tend to think that there is only one way to do things and don't, or can't, change when someone comes up with a better idea! Nothing personal, but I am wondering if you "did your homework"?
TIM, DON'T LISTEN TO THESE FOOLS, YOUR INSTRUCTION AND DYI PROGRAM IS FAR SUPERIOR.
used food grade 55gal plastic barrels $15 each, you need 3. Some kind of grow medium, you could just use use river pebbles, but if you want to buy some $35 for a bag of expanded clay pellets used in hydroponics, the cost of the 80 or so gallons of water you put in the system and the dechlorinator ($7). $1 per fry (baby fish) if you're going with tilapia and you can grow around 12-25 with little maintenance, up to 55 if you want to really watch it closely. then the cost of the seeds you plant.
Tilapia has a feed conversion ratio of 1.8. That means for every 1 pound of wet tilapia you fed them 1.8 pounds of dry food. Duckweed pulls nutrients from the system and competes with your plants. The spare nutrients from the food that the tilipia metabolize are soaked up by the veggies, but you have to consider all the nutrition locked up in parts of the plants that we don't eat. It's not a closed loop, and not nearly enough sun falls on that small an area to keep it all going.
"premium food" is for everyone, go ahead and do it! don't let anyone who thinks some people are better than others bother you
Make your own :D
A lot cheaper + you will learn new skills...
Bravo.... A world changing device for once that does mass good rather than mass death.
Oh and mine is solar powered, uses 2% of the water ground farming uses, and I've seen it done in isolated villages in india where they have few imports and 2 hours of electricity a day. I wish people would have a little more hope and positivity.
The stat of 1 in 8 is promulgated by a welfare system that wants to see more people on food stamps. The real stat is more like once a month 1 in 8 are hungry.
I still applaud your efforts, they are true, virtuous, honest, honorable, fantastic and I wish I had one of those in my back yard. I will this summer as I am buying a home. Thank you for posting an inspiring video.
Thanks for blessing us with this natural way of living to eat off the grid, blessings
"This guy must be brilliant", this is what he tells his mirror every five minutes.
Astonishing! This could solve the problems of a sustainable food supply for the world population.
There is abundance of food and we are not sharing with others, instead we let food spoil. The local supermarket is proof that we are living in times of milk and honey.
This guy is lying. He did not discover this. The Chineese, Japaneese, Koreans and Vietnameese have been practicing seasonal versions of this for centuries.
+Tim Hark There are many ideas that people believe they invented but were previously thought of. Indeed this fish farming/waste as fertiliser idea WAS used in many places but I think his concept of simplifying and making the scheme portable to bring it to the mass market is where he is possibly unique and is to be commended, because it is a very good idea.In Rhodesia, at a place called the Henderson Research Station in Mazoe, they had a similar experimental system which was highly effective. With one modification - namely CHICKENS were housed in semi free-range conditions above the large water tanks. The chicken poop and scattered wasted chicken-food dropped through a mesh and went to feeding the fish - the fish waste was fertiliser for a range of vegetables and the waste vegetable matter was composted and so on. The dead fish were used as fly-trap attractant and the fly-larvae was used as further chicken food! It was a very successful system that was not implemented widely because the dictator Robert Mugabe came to power and destroyed all such places.
I can only whole heartedly agree with you. I have seen in Burma and in your National Geographic 1970s edition magazine, the floating gardens of Burma which are actually floating strips of woven rice mats with a thin layer of river mud and silt place in the middle and seedlings and seeds are planted on down and these floating gardens of river mud and silt covered floating woven rice mats are anchored on bamboo poles to the bottom. But the greatest ability of this ancient centuries old Burmese invention is that regardless whether it rains or not, regardless if floods occurs or not, it will always receive it's required nutrients from the water and from the river mud and silt placed on top of it and IT WILL FLOAT EITHER UPWARDS OR DOWNWARDS DURING THE RAINY SEASON SO THE PROBLEM OF FLOODING AND DROUGHT IS SOLVED!
An another invention is the ancient Incan chinampa agricultural system which are artificial floating islands made by woven mats of thin wood poles and placed on top one after the other and filled with lake mud and silt and planted with willows at the edges to secure against erosion. Regardless of the weather and climate conditions the yields are always consistently three times higher than conventional land based agriculture and you can get 7 to 8 crops a year AND THAT WAS ACHIEVED IN ANCIENT TIMES BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF THE SPANISH CONQUISTADORES. No GMOs, no hybrids, no chemical fertilizers, no chemical pesticides or any chemical cides whatsoever. They only use organic natural heirloom seed varieties and plant cuttings and organic fertilizers from the crop residues, the falling leaves of the willow trees which simultaneously creates a kind of micro-climate which is beneficial to plant growth, mud and silt from the lake, and anti-pesticidal plants and anti-disease plants that prevents insects, parasites, snails, blight from harming their food crops and medicinal herbal pharmacological naturopathic crop plants.
darthvader5300 thank you
Tim Hark As well as the Aztecs had floating gardens and one of the 'Great wonders of the world' the tower gardens of Babylon.
are u on drugs or what
S&S Aqua Farms was started in West Plains, MO in 1984 and because some people can't acclimate to change they never were able to grow in size. The man who started it died from cancer in 2004, the business closed and no one even noticed.
There are people who think you must have dirt to grow things or will see this concept as way beyond their skill set regardless of explanations and demonstrations. The ignorant will always fear the unknown an unfamiliar.
Another very important thing to consider is mineral content. Most conventionally grown veggies are mineral deficient because farmers tend to only replace what the plants need to grow. Mineral content in plants is generally incidental, (plants are used to remove heavy metal from soil), but the plants don't necessarily need those minerals in order to grow. I wonder how we could be totally self sufficient without the need for outside resources like mineral supps and fish food.
And even though hunger is a product of economy rather than production, GM has the ability to produce cheaper, more robust crops that could alleviate hunger. For instance, Golden Rice solved the problem of season floods by adding flood resistance to rice stalks (and larger yields), which have the potential to help struggling farmers in South and Southeast Asia.
Nice job, ill be sure to keep an eye out for more of your videos
Ancient Hawaiians are the pioneers of aquaponics, this is old technology.
I ola mau na mamo a Haloa!
There is a local Not for profit company called Numan that does something similar to this. They have plots that they rent out for people to grow their own crops on. They also have farms that hire workers to grow to feed the needy. You may want to look into some Rural Development grants to see if there is some way you could start something like that up.
you can grow just about anything... melons, berries, leafy greens, root vegetables... even trees if you have large enough containers.
Thanks for your kind suggestions. I see U R Russian. Me too. :-) I like your comments. A good inspiration.
Breading of fish for money is tough business here in Thailand because of high competition. As for new varieties, people will no buy strange fish if they are not accustomed to eat it.
Considering sustainable agriculture, I turned to growing of mushrooms. It brings better profits as competition is lower. Retail price of Pleurotus is about 2 USD and grow them is less headache than fish.
Hi Affnan. I visited Malaysia back in 2009, beautiful country. I was there with the US Marines/Navy. I wish I met you back then, haha. Have good harvests this year. Love your videos.
I saw a amazing video on youtube about a parkinsons patient having IV glutathione shots, 30 minutes latter you wouldnt even know he had parkinsons disease
jfkbro Sorry, that doesn’t make any sense. I have worked in medicine/medications all my career, and they embrace plenty of natural remedies (folic acid, lithium, thyroid hormone, good diet exercise, calcium supplementation, huge list)...BUT, they have to WORK. Parkinson’s has a tremendous influence on quality of life...with the Internet, why would multi-millionaires like Michael J Fox still have it if there was a simple one shot solution? You can’t blame health insurance companies for suppressing it, but health insurance companies lose money for every hospital day, pill, etc. Just like every other insurance they want to pay out the least...so if it worked, it would be mandatory.
You can try to blame doctors suppressing it, but if PD was cured tomorrow every neurologist, who treat strokes, epilepsy, ALS, Alzheimer’s and hundreds more diseases, would still have a good career... so no incentive there. Plus, with the Internet it would be impossible to keep secret. Nope, it just doesn’t work or people would be using it already...it is a scam.
What is special is that he wants the world to have this to end hunger for the world.
What is special is that he wants the world to buy it from him.
way-da-go-mango! we know you are one of those people now!
And I thought I was clever using the mulm collected from squeezing out my aquarium filters to water my chili plants. This is some next level shit.
I've heard of Tesla Coils and they still require a power source, it is not free electricity as many claim it to be.
This joule ringer seems to only be for light loads (light as is minimal) according to the documentation I've found. It can't run heavy amp drawing devices like proper MH/HPS grow lights which are used throughout Holland in greenhouses.
I can't seem to find any articles on exactly how this works.
Wow, he's been doing aquaponics since the 70s? Niceeee
A common problem with AP systems. However a little ingenuity can get around it. First up is duckweed. 40% protein and doubles every 3 to 5 days. No input required. Second is Black soldier fly larva cultivation. This can be accomplished two ways. The scraps that come form the AP system can be used in compost bins to feed these larva...which are self harvesting. 2nd method is to use a vortex filter to harvest waste solids to fertilize an easy to grow crop strictly used for composting BSF.
Numbers are accurate, in fact conservative, I bought four 90x120 (1 acre) five months ago. They work better than advertised and there's no hype. So many ay-sayers and smarty-pants out there. I have already produced, and sold the surplus, nearly enough to pay off the $8000 for the Portable Farms. I haven't sold the fish yet, but they are almost ready and look to be about $2500 worth, Tilapia is $5 lb fresh and $2 frozen, go figure. Building it yourself you won't get the ratios right! Important!
you can raise worms (vermiculture), duckweed and throw in kitchen and garden scraps for them, depending on the kind of fish.
I have thought about building an aquaponic component onto my raised bed gardens. It just looks so amazing.
This concept and demonstration of actual aquaponics systems in operation is quite an attractive idea. Live Oak Monastery may purchase and operate such a system this year.
Yes paul, just need to rotate all water
the green stuff growing on the surface of the fish tank is the fish food. And of course you can feed a commercial food if you like. In the video, you see him throwing in fish chow.
Yeah, aquaponics is not new, but a lot of people have a hard time making it work right. This system looks pretty well designed. Even I could get this one right ;)
Watch a gremlin peak through the window at 4:00.
I don´know for this system but have seen others doing everything from gold fish to Tilapia which seam to be very popular indeed
If the fish are living off of duckweed, it would take a massive nutrient input to the duckweed to produce 20,000 pounds of fish, so it is NOT a closed system. (By the way, duckweed is eaten by humans as well in Asia.) If the fish are fed an external source of food, the duckweed will help purify the water, AND will provide food to the fish.
Excellent observation acurt1970. The plants thrive because of the chemicals in the excretions of the fish, the fish thrive due to the chemical conversion of their excretions done by beneficial bacteria and plant roots.
All this commentary is just in case somebody is new to aquaponics
grabdemankelz: You will notice in the video that duckweed is floating on the pond, so this can be closed system, but the soldier-fly larvae is a brilliant idea. I would also add a chicken coup over the fish pond. The chickens would also help keep the system heated in winter.
Correct, but you do not need grow lights if you are closer to the equator. Grow lights are only needed in winter in far north/south locations. And pumps/heat can be fed from Solar/Wind which is indeed off grid.
I don't know what are used in the video, but Tilapia is the best choice for aquaponics.
WOW THAT ROCKED!
Was busy looking at the reporters body but.
I think the PH is maintained when the water passes through the rocks and plants. Because after the water passes through, it's taken back to the aquarium were the fish are.
My my my, I have not seen a video this great up to date!
Right, and it's not like any of us plan to eat 20,000 pounds of fish a year by ourselves anyway. Some of these people just don't get it. I wouldn't say not possible in a backyard system though, it is possible if you expand each year to reach about any amount you want, but we all know we only need a small amount for our families needs anyway. Any extra we can barter with or just sell outright.
Did I mention that we made a trial in Thailand? So no heating was necessary. My intention was to estimate profitability to keep a fish pond together with vegetables. The answer - it brings losses if the use of motors is necessary for filtration and keeping a level of oxygen in water, as well as if food is purchased elsewhere. Competition already made prices for fish so low that a profit margin is tiny and it is not worthwhile to build anything complicated. Only huge pools with fish show profits
...Many of these countries have been trying to modernize for many years, but theft of infrastructure like phone lines kept that from becoming reality.
A culture of self control, respect of property, and morality is a huge ingredient to prosperity.
A separate tank for duck weed solves the problem of needing expensive filters. Set up a small solar unit to provide your own electric to make it even more self sustainable.
Solar everyone, you know - power from the sun anywhere in the world!
a large 40 acre site was built near me, exactly like this, entirely covered with the same kind of structures. well funded, they were an oriental firm testing the viability of making a profit in this area where the sun is so often shining it would seem optimal for this form of high-intensity farming. After five years they finally abandoned the property, but I don't know why. Wish I'd have asked them what ...?
This video is so cool, im going to check out your other videos
aha now this is a point that i happily found out is untrue after thinking the same as you initially. in terms of electricity usage for temperature regulation, you can completely eliminate the need for electricity for this by constructing a 'mike oehler' greenhouse or a 'walipini' greenhouse. likewise with eliminate heating bills of your home by living in a 'earthship' or cob or CEB house. space = back yard feeds a diverse nutritious diet for a family with aquaponics.
I would just like to point out that the extra mass comes from the C02 that it takes from the air. in case it wasn't clear.
Plants can only absord so much energy per sq/ft, Which means a limited calories can be produce per square feet. The statistic we can use are the USA farmers who are the the most productive in the world. If his really lucky the can produce 10 loaves of bread which equals to about 1/10 bushels anually.
he didn't invent aquaponics
what the?
No he invented a better pump so it would not clog up with fish doodoo
I saw this last year and really wanted to start one and/or contact these people for the smallest unit they have and start payments BUT instead I started a community church garden working in raised earth beds with the local charity Foodbanks and soup kitches wanting /needing so much produce I want still wishing to have the money to get one just to fill the basic need for our area
you can sell the fish. It works with salmone. The electrical bill shouldn't be high if he is a good engineer. You can build pumps needing no electricity or at least very few. Also their are very similare techniques used on big scale in Spain for example. In short it is a working system growing vegetables.
You will notice in the video that duckweed is floating on the pond, this is what the tilapia eat, so this can be closed system, but the soldier-fly larvae idea posted by grabdemankelz is a brilliant idea.
He could get that much because of the rapid growth period, so you would just continue to grow corn not have to wait and pick and wait until the next growing season. It is a continual growth system.
You actually can build your backyard that doesn't need weeding, tilling or cultivating, the spreading of fertilizer or compost, and no watering or irrigating; all when your plants produce up to 10 times the amount of veggies than plants from a dirt garden.
Please provide me that method. Appreciate it.
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Thanks, last week I thought too that we have to implant the mulberry trees at our farm. I like the berries from my childhood. And the tree itself should grow here well. I did not see any of them in Thailand. As for nitrogen-fixing trees, we have a lot of varieties and grow them at our farm. Some have huge size flowers that are used after steaming as a flavor to steamed rice. What you are proposing on powders is very interesting. However, limestone and charcoal powders are too expensive here.
This would be great on Mars. No shortage of water.
This is a very respectable concept!
It's not a new concept. It's been being used for decades. Just like capitalizing on other peoples' ideas.
Nolapete65
yeah since 1973 i think he said... I dont remember them or the concept before then. My uncle talked about it during the 90's for perch farming but the problem is cold water.
ironhand69 Murray Hallams
oats, amaranth, granola, aquarium plants, blood worms, even natural popcorn and dehydrated crushed up soy bits. some fish will eat just about anything... kinda like little pigs with fins
Exactly!
I don't have $10k laying around to blow on a pipe dream that may or may not work.
Sorry to hear about your parkinsons. I hope it progresses slowly and leaves you many more years to enjoy.
You might try leasing your land out to another farmer, and setting up a smaller patch or aquaponics system for your own familys food. If that goes well you can expand and start selling the vegies. I would think things produced in this maner would qualify as organic.
But I'd walk into it slowly and not all at once. There's always a learning curve and it's best to learn on a small scale.
Don't let bully's get to you...ignore them...they are not worth the effort!
I am glad you see there are extenuating circumstances for obesity. Some, yes, are just over eaters. But, the thing is Judge not! Not judge when you so feel like it. And, for any reason.
You will never achieve optimum results without the live-giving input of real sunlight. Build a greenhouse enclosure if you can.
I saw a documentary that said 2 acres was barely enough to feed family of 2 with protein, fruit and vegetables. Even that, they still need to import carbohydrates.
*Aquaponics is a technology that combines the cultivation of fish with the water-based cultivation of plants. It allows everyone to raise plants and fish together in natural balance.*
Thank you.. :)
There is NO hunger in the world problem. There is SELFISHNESS in the world problem (and includes hunger amongs several others). There's enough earth for everybody.
Nice repackaging of Aquaponics so it is very portable. Wondering how easy to make the whole process organic..should not be too difficult.
Class! Nice video mate!
What do you feed the fish?
I'm not sure what else, but duckweed is a favorite ... and it grows in the same water as the fish.