Backyard Aquaponics Garden gurus 1

Neville Passmore from the Garden Gurus talks about Backyard Aquaponics.

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Pets & Animals

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• aquaponics
• fish
• neville

[minhakd]

What type of plant and animals are best for a Northwest temperature?

Have you compared your data with regular agriculture and aquaponic plant growth? If you had can you share it with me?

I also need to ask if you have compared the energy and water use comparing regular agriculture and aquaponics. If you had could you please share it with me? Can you make a profit out of aquaponics? How?

Have you thought of having a Community aquaponics project?

[backyardaquaponics]

@minhakd If you check out or website, backyardaquaponics you will find some rather comprehensive documents you can download for free with details about growth rates and inputs into systems.

[blackrubberbag]

This process works well virtually everywhere except Malaysia. Sorry.

[PoweredByAaron]

Units like these can be subsidized by communities looking to reduce dependence on imported foods. Instead of "Feed the children foundation," people need to invest in renewable agricultural systems such as this, to produce food for poverty stricken areas. Give a man a fish, you've fed him for a day... Teach a man to grow his own fresh fish and organic produce and you have fed his family for life. Then who cares if the economy collapses? I'll be full of yummy fish!

[oaney]

If the perch take 12-18 months and trout only take 6 months, wouldnt you rather go with trout to have a continual trout harvest in less time? The trouts 6 month growth period roughly coincides with a vegetable growing season as well.

What are the advantages of using a fish that takes 12-18 months to mature?

[SimonKentSmith]

Are there any dangers of salmonella or E coli or other harmful bacteria or issues with this method.. Forgive my ignorance please..

[brad238899]

I wonder if you can have truly organic aquaponics in the U.S.. I've heard that there are ridiculous rules like forbidding direct application of manure to plants which disallows letting organic chickens pick up bugs and organic geese weed throughout your plants. It probably has the same rules for fish. Don't you just love bureaucracy.

[ObeyBunny]

@minhakd

Part 3

(I apologize for my long winded reply to a question you asked 2 weeks ago)

I myself don’t have hard/numerical comparative data regarding aqua-p and normal farming. But I know of somebody who may be able to help you in this regard. His YouTube name is ‘web4deb’ and he set up a computer to measure everything going on in his aqua-p greenhouse.

Just type ‘Aquaponics Greenhouse Tour’ in YouTube’s search bar and ask the guy to send you some of his data.

Hope this helped.

[ObeyBunny]

@minhakd

Part 2:

Water use on a normal farm is higher than in an aquaponic farm. (In aquaponics, the plants take water as they need it and the rest is cycled back into the fish tank. In a ground farm, some of the water is lost as evaporation [more so than an aqua-p system]) So, in terms of water conservation, aqua-p farms are better.

Plants grow faster in both hydroponic and aquaponic grow beds than in traditional agriculture. I’m not sure why.

[ObeyBunny]

@minhakd

If temperature is a problem, you could always move your Aquaponic farm indoors (Greenhouse).

As for energy use, on a weekly basis a normal farm only uses electricity to power a sprinkler system and then harvesting is done with gas powered tractors. But a farm is labor intensive and time consuming.

Depending on how you build it, an Aquaponic farm will either use a water pump constantly or several times a day. Not at all labor intensive.

Cost of electricity is about equal

[greentiger2020]

nice video! Very interesting! Just seems too hard for a home garden. This needs lots of space. Jason Niu from waytobetterlife.blogspot