All Discussions Tagged 'animal husbandtry' - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T10:08:05Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=animal+husbandtry&feed=yes&xn_auth=noBachelors 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>