Sustainability and Aquaponics - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-28T20:54:23Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/categories/sustainability-and-aquaponics/listForCategory?categoryId=4778851%3ACategory%3A36241&%3Bpage=2&feed=yes&xn_auth=noFight to Retain Organic Eligibilitytag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2016-10-06:4778851:Topic:6350752016-10-06T14:49:20.414ZBrian Filipowichhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/BrianFilipowich
<p>The National Organic Standards Board has proposed banning aquaponic and hydroponic organic eligibility. They will formally vote in November.</p>
<p>The Aquaponics Association has formed the Aquaponic and Hydroponic Organic Coalition to fight back. Click here to learn more or to join the Coalition: <a href="http://aquaponicsassociation.org/organic-coalition/">http://aquaponicsassociation.org/organic-coalition/</a></p>
<p>This is an important fight to keep growing our industry. Even if you…</p>
<p>The National Organic Standards Board has proposed banning aquaponic and hydroponic organic eligibility. They will formally vote in November.</p>
<p>The Aquaponics Association has formed the Aquaponic and Hydroponic Organic Coalition to fight back. Click here to learn more or to join the Coalition: <a href="http://aquaponicsassociation.org/organic-coalition/">http://aquaponicsassociation.org/organic-coalition/</a></p>
<p>This is an important fight to keep growing our industry. Even if you personally dont have a commercial farm or plan on getting organic certification, we need to keep all the incentives in place so that more businesses enter the field and we transition away from large scale industrial agriculture to more sustainable methods. Thanks for reading! - Brian</p> Lettuce harvest advice neededtag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2016-05-23:4778851:Topic:6300732016-05-23T21:15:48.071ZCindihttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/Cindi
Ok so im new here and to Aquaponics! We are growing lettuce...when we harvest we are washing and drying and then placing in a clamshell....5 days later we are noticing some browning/yellowing and ALOT of condensation. Tastes is delicious..but we want the appearance to match the taste! LOL!<br />
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Any suggestions?? Thought maybe a soaker pad in the clamshell or used vented clamshells would help....thoughts?
Ok so im new here and to Aquaponics! We are growing lettuce...when we harvest we are washing and drying and then placing in a clamshell....5 days later we are noticing some browning/yellowing and ALOT of condensation. Tastes is delicious..but we want the appearance to match the taste! LOL!<br />
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Any suggestions?? Thought maybe a soaker pad in the clamshell or used vented clamshells would help....thoughts? New Growing Underground hydropnics in (under) Londontag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2015-07-17:4778851:Topic:6106842015-07-17T22:33:19.968ZPam DeLonghttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/PamDeLong
<p>Came across an article on this newly opened business in the WW2 tunnels far below London, England. Thought it might be useful to those of you doing Aquaponics or Hydroponics in you basement.</p>
<p><a href="http://growing-underground.com/">http://growing-underground.com/</a></p>
<p>Came across an article on this newly opened business in the WW2 tunnels far below London, England. Thought it might be useful to those of you doing Aquaponics or Hydroponics in you basement.</p>
<p><a href="http://growing-underground.com/">http://growing-underground.com/</a></p> Any results yet?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-11-18:4778851:Topic:5868232014-11-18T21:37:23.596ZAndrew Chapmanhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AndrewChapman
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>"I've also submitted the whole 'harvest' for lab analysis last week to see what all is exactly in there and in what exact amounts. I'll post the results when I receive them"</em></p>
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<p>Hi Vlad, forgive me if you have reported your lab results elsewhere but I have been unable to find them. Did you get promising results and what kind of lab did you send them too?</p>
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<p>Thanks Andrew</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>"I've also submitted the whole 'harvest' for lab analysis last week to see what all is exactly in there and in what exact amounts. I'll post the results when I receive them"</em></p>
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<p>Hi Vlad, forgive me if you have reported your lab results elsewhere but I have been unable to find them. Did you get promising results and what kind of lab did you send them too?</p>
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<p>Thanks Andrew</p> What to do with Used Rockwool?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-07-29:4778851:Topic:5730532014-07-29T19:41:46.970ZAdam Dusenhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AdamDusen
<p>I looked to see if a topic existed on this already, but could not find one through the search function. I am interested to know what uses people have come up with for their used rockwool. Any rockwool that is in decent enough shape I will usually dry out again, remove the dried roots, and reuse until it is no longer good enough to use anymore. But at that point, I am not sure what to do with the stuff other than just throw it away. Someone who managed this system before me was just adding it…</p>
<p>I looked to see if a topic existed on this already, but could not find one through the search function. I am interested to know what uses people have come up with for their used rockwool. Any rockwool that is in decent enough shape I will usually dry out again, remove the dried roots, and reuse until it is no longer good enough to use anymore. But at that point, I am not sure what to do with the stuff other than just throw it away. Someone who managed this system before me was just adding it into our compost (despite the fact that it clearly is not compostable), but I can say from experience that it just clogs up the garden beds... I still am pulling that stuff out of the gardens months later.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">I have heard from somewhere that some people will use a shredder to finely shred it and then mix into compost or potting soil and I could see that being more practical but do not have a shredder yet to give it a try. Has anyone tried that? Any other uses out there others have tried (successfully or unsuccessfully)?</span></p> d.w.t. systemstag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-07-10:4778851:Topic:5703812014-07-10T12:40:00.998ZJohn Pinkhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JohnPink
<p>Being new to this subject I made a deep water technique system- (d.w.t.)- using a 4" pipe- on the end of pipes ,contains a reduction plate that gives me a 2"inlet -outlet on the end of the other pipe creating a baffler affect .Pipes laid horizontally enabling water to reach about the half way mark ,water controlled by tap from fish tank controlling the rate of flow round the system .I am thinking of putting a small aerator into the system to oxygenate the water ,also to keep water cool .I…</p>
<p>Being new to this subject I made a deep water technique system- (d.w.t.)- using a 4" pipe- on the end of pipes ,contains a reduction plate that gives me a 2"inlet -outlet on the end of the other pipe creating a baffler affect .Pipes laid horizontally enabling water to reach about the half way mark ,water controlled by tap from fish tank controlling the rate of flow round the system .I am thinking of putting a small aerator into the system to oxygenate the water ,also to keep water cool .I used cling film around the plant holders to stop evaporation , seems to work quite well .The plant holders consist of 3" pipe cut down to 6.5 inches with a net pot used as a base fastened with a zip tie .Hydroton used as media.</p> Redclawtag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-06-20:4778851:Topic:5678922014-06-20T02:47:57.519ZJason Childshttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JasonChilds
Currently working with these guys and I have a few available at the moment. Soon I will have more!
Currently working with these guys and I have a few available at the moment. Soon I will have more! FOOD FOR THE NATIONS!!! (FFN)tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-05-23:4778851:Topic:5644122014-05-23T03:12:56.946ZNoah Howardhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/NoahHoward
<p>Join us at YWAM Los Angeles for our 5 day FFN seminar. During the seminar, you will learn how to build a practical 3rd world applicable aquaponics system as well as all the science behind it. We will also have a speaker, and lecture. Please read more about it on our website! It is going to be a fun experience! Let me know if you want anymore information. I am leading the seminar this summer!…</p>
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<p>Join us at YWAM Los Angeles for our 5 day FFN seminar. During the seminar, you will learn how to build a practical 3rd world applicable aquaponics system as well as all the science behind it. We will also have a speaker, and lecture. Please read more about it on our website! It is going to be a fun experience! Let me know if you want anymore information. I am leading the seminar this summer!</p>
<p><a href="http://ywamla.org/training/summer-programs/food-for-the-nations/">http://ywamla.org/training/summer-programs/food-for-the-nations/</a></p>
<p></p> Bachelors degree in horticulture or agriculture?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-03-20:4778851:Topic:5544892014-03-20T12:22:15.246ZCameron Schuckerthttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/CameronSchuckert
<p>Hello everyone! I have been thinking on it for a while and I have decided that I would like to go to school to learn about and aquire a skillset to push my aquaponics system to its maximum potential. I know little of the difference of horticulture and agriculture though.</p>
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<p>First let me explain where I want to be and what I plan on doing. In the next ten years I plan on living in southeastern Alaska near Juno and owning a few acres of land. I will have a full greenhouse to house…</p>
<p>Hello everyone! I have been thinking on it for a while and I have decided that I would like to go to school to learn about and aquire a skillset to push my aquaponics system to its maximum potential. I know little of the difference of horticulture and agriculture though.</p>
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<p>First let me explain where I want to be and what I plan on doing. In the next ten years I plan on living in southeastern Alaska near Juno and owning a few acres of land. I will have a full greenhouse to house a small pond and the growbeds as well as a work area, nersery, storage and a hut outside for duckweed and soldier flys. I also plan on having a small out door garden to grow additional plants (in the soil) during the summer. Lastly I want to raise small animals like chickens, rabits, and pigs, maybe even goats or a milk cow and a meat cow. I figure the cow can come later, if at all, and I will start slow with the animals, kind of learning as I go I guess.</p>
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<p>Now what I do know about agriculture is that it deals with legitimate farming, in the ground, and with animals or animal husbantry. I figure that would help with my animal ambitions however what I plan on doing with animals isn't going to be a large scale operation at all. Just enough to suppliment my families cost of food if not eliminate it all together. As far as the farming comes in, i grew up on a farm and though I wasn't all involved with every aspect of the farm I feel that I know enough to start and I can research on my own to get by with soil farming and either degree I decide on will fill in the rest.</p>
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<p>What I understand of Horticulture is that it deals more souly on plants and gardens, everything from vegetables to exotic flowers and ferns. I can't say I give a tinkers darn about anything I can't eat or use in hurbalism and medicine or even landscaping. However I do care about the universal inner workings of plants, what diseases they can catch, the bugs that eat them, and the different effects of nutritional deffisencies. I want the ability to know how to see "something coming" and correct the issue before it becomes a real problem.</p>
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<p>My real question is, what degree is going to be most benifictial to me and my family with keeping my aquaponics system running, pushing it to its max (health and production wise), keeping the whole operation completely self sufficient, and the engineering efficentcy. I know I can't have my cake and eat it too but is there anything out there that would maybe cover everything I would be doing maybe including the animals too?</p> Is Aquaponics The End Goal?tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2014-03-13:4778851:Topic:5529802014-03-13T22:00:45.944ZAlex Veidelhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AlexVeidel
<p><span>I've been thinking about some of the differences between aquaponics and soil gardening. One difference in particular interests me. It seems like soil gardening relies on soil microbes (bacteria and fungi, particularly) to contain and store soluble nutrients right at the rhizosphere (root zone) to keep them from being washed away, whereas aquaponics bypasses that particular problem simply by containing all the nutrients and recirculating them. Aquaponics still relies on…</span></p>
<p><span>I've been thinking about some of the differences between aquaponics and soil gardening. One difference in particular interests me. It seems like soil gardening relies on soil microbes (bacteria and fungi, particularly) to contain and store soluble nutrients right at the rhizosphere (root zone) to keep them from being washed away, whereas aquaponics bypasses that particular problem simply by containing all the nutrients and recirculating them. Aquaponics still relies on bacter</span><span class="text_exposed_show">ia, but it seems less dependent with that particular aspect. What implications does that have in choosing one over the other? Which one has more potential? Better to rely on containment by recirculating nutrients or by fostering microbial life?<br/><br/>That thought keeps leading me to this question: Is aquaponics the food production of the future, or merely a stepping stone as we transition away from conventional agriculture? Is aquaponics our end goal? Just a far lesser evil? Or will it forever be included alongside other growing methods in the grand scheme of caring for our earth?<br/><br/>I'd LOVE to hear people's thoughts....</span></p>