Are you concerned about where your food comes from? How far away has the tractor-trailer had to travel too bring you leafy greens? Colored Bell peppers are over $2 each now.
What if the price of gas goes back to $4 a gallon? Would you be able to afford the rise in food prices?
Are you concerned with what is being sprayed on your vegetables?
Now what about Fish? Would you be able to feed some fish? Do you trust the source of the fish you eat?
Be the Change, take control of your vegetables! Aquaponics can be that change for you!
Have you researched aquaponics and are interested in getting a system installed? We can help.
*Design
*Build
*Cycling the system
*Testing
*Maintenance
*Trouble Shooting
*Fish
*plants
*Indoor vs Outdoor
*Sizing
What is Aquaponics?
Simple answer, Aquaponics (AP) is a mini-ecosystem that can be found around any lake, river, pond. Plants soaking up nutrients thus cleaning the water for the fish.
Expanded answer: Fish’s give off ammonia, the ammonia water goes to the media (gravel or clay pebble) beds which contain the beneficial bacteria that converts the ammonia into NitrItes, then into NitrAtes, which is nutrients for the plants. Once the plants soak up the nutrients (Nitrates) the water is cleaned and ready to be pumped back to the fish tank.
These beds usually flood and drain, thus bringing nutrients and oxygen to the plants. Now the plant roots do not have to fight each other for nutrients since it is being brought to them, which means you can put plants closer together. And you can even move the plants around to different beds with out much disturbance.
Advantages of AP:
*Uses 90% less water than traditional gardening, only water usage is evaporation & what the plants soak up.
*No Weeds: since the plants are not grown in soil, there are no weeds.
*Media beds are usually about waist height, which means there is no bending over to access your vegetables.
*Greater plant growth due to constant water/oxygen cycling
*No chance of water too much or too little
Disadvantages:
Higher set-up costs (but lets face it, would you feel more comfortable having $1,000-$5,000 in the stock market, or in your backyard where you get daily ROI of clean healthy fish & vegetables?!) In my backyard sounds much more secure than having my $$$ on wall street.
Inputs include feeding the fish and electricity to run the pump. But both of those can be off-set if you desire, and we can show you how!