Just finished week 2 of my adventure in aquaponics yesterday.  So thankful for the people in here and on Aquaculturehub.org who have given me suggestions.  I even got an answer to my silly question about "what the heck do I do with basil?" (As you can predict, besides never having grown anything before-- I'm also not a gourmet cook). Fortunately, I like pesto pasta!

Week 2 of "Auntie's Food Machine": To my amazement, my fish are still alive. Most of my…

The more I learn about aquaponics, the more I realize that there are many, many "ways" or designs that will construct aquaponic systems that work.  I love the innovation in this field right now--- so many interesting ideas.

This strange system totally fascinated me, so I'm going to post a link to this gentleman's description of how you can build an aquaponic…

It's been a crazy summer as I worked to try to build my first aquaponics system.  This week has had many milestones:

1. System was finished and started up (Tuesday)
2. Placed my first seedlings (Tuesday)
3. Tried the Olomana Cycling system [Added fish, more seedlings, "live cinder" & worms all at once] (Wednesday)
4. Planted my first seeds (of my life) in a seed tray (Thursday)
5. Upgraded to a bigger air pump; got my azola and started a worm…

As I've learned about aquaculture and aquaponics over the past 3 years-- I sometimes wished I could go back 40 years and re-design how I spent that time.  Knowing what I know now--- I definitely would have chosen a different career. But.. we can never go back.. big sigh here.  

Becoming an evangelist for aquaponics is not hard to do, but everyone needs to do…