GardenPool.org - Unlimited organic aquaponic food for life from an old backyard swimming pool.

[hendrixphish420]

OH MY GOD! :O i have never EVER in my wildest dreams seen anything remotely like this!

this is incredible! every home should have one!

thank you for sharing

[bluediamond2077]

I would be worried that if anything happened and being in the city like that you would be the first target of rioters and gangs looking for food and supplies . I use to live in mesa and moved to tucson 19 miles out in the desert. I surrounded my home/acre with 2600 feet of barbwire and cattle fencing. I'm currently growing 12 fruit trees and stocking a room with food, water, guns. I will be working on a pond and garden soon.Don't get me wrong you inspire me to do more. Just be cautious if shtf

[deestavo]

The one thing that concerns me, is prolonged standing on chicken wire, will hurt the chickens. I see you have patches of hay for comfort, which is great, also know why you need the wire for the waste to fall through. How about a net, made of rope? Soft on feet, and waste can still fall through.

[TheGardenPool]

@deestavo Don't worry. The chickens roost above the pool and free-range during the day. They aren't trapped there.

[NghtDremr]

I live in Mesa as well. We have two children as well. I just watched you on TV and feel very strongly on this idea of self sufficiency. However my fience does not share my concern as strongly as I do. We have a pool and live on a 3/4 acre lot with plenty of room to do this. Thank you very much for sharing this with us! I worry that we may not have the resources or the time to aquire the resources we may need but I am very hopeful and now more inspired to do what I can to prepare my familly.

[charronfamilyconnect]

Just saw you guys on TV today on Living for the apocolypse. Very impressive what you guys are doing? Guess I couldnt do this here in the great white north in Canada eh?

[Lavooe]

wow, amazing

[eslick01]

wow! this is awesome!



[dinfinite]

This is incredible! Wow, complete respect for what you're doing and thank you for sharing.

[Subvert1024]

Who could dislike this? corporate agriculture?

[TheGardenPool]

@Subvert1024 I was thinking Monsanto.

[kornigator]

WOW great idea. It is people like you that are leading the right way too live.

[TheDarcDefender]

this is amazing!!! hats off!

[SilverLadyFox]

The chickens are too cute! :D

[MondoBeno]

Why does the plastic have to be UV treated?

[cantecleer]

@MondoBeno -- "UV treated" = it can withstand the UV rays from direct sunlight. In other words, if you use plastic that is not UV-resistant in direct sunlight, it will become opaque, brittle, and eventually break into tiny little pieces. Even UV-resistant plastics eventually succumb to the sun's rays, especially in AZ (and if they are sitting in direct sunlight all day), but it does make a big difference as far as how long the plastic lasts.

[Solderloose]

This is the coolest thing that I have seen lately, I have become interested in hydroponics and started making a small system with just two plants, but now this inspires me to use the Jacuzzi that I was thinking of repairing. Thank you so much for your inspiration. Erick

[MondoBeno]

I know a school that has a disused indoor pool that hasn't been used in 20 years. I wonder if we could do this in there?

It's in New York, by the way, and the windows are very small and face north.

[speedkleaver]

that is amazing and beautiful in equal measure :D

[realdogsoupandnuts]

OMG I live like 2 hosues down from u.once you allowed peple 2 come see your garden pool and i went it wuz awesome.haha every1 else i got 2 see it in person!

[TheWholefoodfarmacy]

Great vidio

[LarsMith217]

Chicken waste falls directly into the water below ? Could you show, by video, how your water gets filtered and how the waste makes its way to becoming food for plants ?

[ittibittirainbow]

thats pretty awesome!

[purity4all]

This is the best idea I have seen in a long....... long time!

[facebookprogrammer]

I'm from Canada and we are heavy into organic. How come the US gov't (via Monsanto lobbying) is always trying to crush the organic industry? Profits?

[EzeeSKANKIN]

@facebookprogrammer so they can keep us dumb and unhealthy

[dontlikenumbers]

@facebookprogrammer Profits and power, who ever controls the worlds food supply controls the people. Monsanto has it's dirty little fingers in many Canadian farms as well.

[GoingOrganic1]

I love this idea! My parents have an old pool that is not being used. Just some goldfish live in it now. This gives me a lot to think about.

[sykoben]

This is Awesome, thank you for sharing !!

[boxa888]

WOW THIS IS AWESOME!! great work, u could always put up a cat walk system over the small pond to increase the growing area. u have water rain barrels, a honey bee hive can also make a garden healthy as well and honey on top of that. man thats so nice to share such a great accomplishment!! thank you

[ThanksgivingWalk]

Attn Permaculturists and Chicken Farmers! The 2:10 minute marker features a new ( to me anyway) use for chicken waste and an new, interesting chicken pin.

Thanks for positng!

TGW - USA - Louisiana

[BadassCeino]

Very posh, Ceino likes.

[TheTruthoverlies]

what kind of material did you cover that with? NICE.

[TheGardenPool]

@TheTruthoverlies Thanks! It is a reinforced UV treated 12 mil tarp

[MrMadmax900]

How do you keep the chickens, plants and fish from getting cooked to death during your blazing hot summers?

[TheGardenPool]

@MrMadmax900 We use shade cloth, thermal mass, and an evaporative cooler.

[iantmasters]

Outstanding!

[pop50ma]

Wow! my husband read about your pool farm on a guns internet forum so we look you up. We have been doing vege gardening in pots like yours and love it. I told my sister about it and she's interested in your ideas too. Brilliant!

[acroplexcom]

Fantastic!

[weileradam]

We just bought a house with a dormant pool in the backyard and have been wondering what to do with it. This is a great idea!

[360lotus]

TOTALLY FABULOUS and INSPIRING! Nice work.

[Angelista]

Wow... this is quite possibly one of the neatest things I've ever seen. Congratulations on turning something so wasteful into quite the opposite!

[914hawaii]

Great permaculture setup! I love it.

[antonlee43]

sharing this, this is a wonderful idea, even though I love my pool. . . feeding myself might make me think twice. Thanks for sharing your ideas!

[cigarsmke]

I just love your idea of turning your swimming pool into an aquaponic green house. I have been thinking about doing aquaponic for a few months. Um just one suggestion that may help you if you have not already done so. Check out BSF (black soldier fly) they are just sex organs on wings and very hygenic fly larvae to feed your fish and chickens. I truly envy you! Again GREAT job!!

[TheGardenPool]

@cigarsmke Thanks! We are in the process of designing a BSF system. We are going to integrate it with our chicken coop update. Anything the chickens don't eat the tilapia will.

[cyrusp100]

Brilliant! Shame about all that concrete surrounding it - why not rip it out and turn the area into a food forest?

[TheGardenPool]

@cyrusp100 Thanks! I don't think it would be wise to spend the energy to rip the concrete out. The pool would collapse and destroy what we worked so hard to make. We live in the Sonorana Desert in Arizona so food forests are kind of out of the question. This high production method feeds us everyday and we wouldn't change it. We use around 75% less water than conventional farming.

[ddnguyen278]

Free food for a lifetime? What's not to love? People spend about 30% of their income on food a year, imagine what you can do with that?

[TheGardenPool]

@ddnguyen278 We agree. It would be nice if we could do this to some of the 10,000 unused pools from foreclosed homes in the Phoenix area where we live or other areas in the world. I'm sure that can easily feed the estimated 3,000 homeless folks in Phoenix and then some.

[ravis303]

Probably the coolest video I have ever seen! Keep up the good work!

Rob

[TheGardenPool]

@ravis303 Thanks Rob! We appreciate it and we hope to get the idea out there. We appreciate your help.

[yinghonghaohan319]

good idea! thanks for sharing!

[TheGardenPool]

@yinghonghaohan319 Glad you like it! We want to spread the word.

[cheezracer]

Cool setup. I wanted to do the same with our pool but haven't been able to convince the wife yet.

[TheGardenPool]

@cheezracer Luckily the entire family is on board with this. It is a family project.