AP Inspiration. What Inspired You To Do This? - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T10:29:41Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topics/ap-inspiration-what-inspired?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A115323&feed=yes&xn_auth=noawesome! I know that what I a…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-22:4778851:Comment:1153862011-05-22T16:40:42.813ZAdam Shivershttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AdamShivers
awesome! I know that what I am doing is an example for others and this keeps me going.<br/><br/><cite>Tom Barnhardt said:</cite>
<blockquote><div>Same here I have been given a vision to start an Aquaponics farm to raise food for our soup kitchen and food pantries. And also provide a place to learn this as well. God has opned may doors and just provided a greenhouse. It is all for His glory.</div>
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awesome! I know that what I am doing is an example for others and this keeps me going.<br/><br/><cite>Tom Barnhardt said:</cite>
<blockquote><div>Same here I have been given a vision to start an Aquaponics farm to raise food for our soup kitchen and food pantries. And also provide a place to learn this as well. God has opned may doors and just provided a greenhouse. It is all for His glory.</div>
</blockquote> There is a great feeling of w…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-22:4778851:Comment:1159022011-05-22T14:36:53.057ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
There is a great feeling of well being and empowerment that can be had by growing and eating one's own food. Aquaponics is a great way to get a complete meal along with that great feeling.<a style="cursor: pointer;"><img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Smile.gif"/></a>
There is a great feeling of well being and empowerment that can be had by growing and eating one's own food. Aquaponics is a great way to get a complete meal along with that great feeling.<a style="cursor: pointer;"><img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Smile.gif"/></a> Same here I have been given a…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-22:4778851:Comment:1158072011-05-22T13:34:00.775ZTom Barnhardthttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TomBarnhardt
Same here I have been given a vision to start an Aquaponics farm to raise food for our soup kitchen and food pantries. And also provide a place to learn this as well. God has opned may doors and just provided a greenhouse. It is all for His glory.
Same here I have been given a vision to start an Aquaponics farm to raise food for our soup kitchen and food pantries. And also provide a place to learn this as well. God has opned may doors and just provided a greenhouse. It is all for His glory. Awesome. yes, admitedly, I th…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-22:4778851:Comment:1155332011-05-22T01:31:31.196ZAdam Shivershttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AdamShivers
Awesome. yes, admitedly, I think these all seem like practical reasons to prepare.<br/><br/><cite>Wayne said:</cite>
<blockquote><div><p>Most folks on there are prepping for economic disasters or civil unrest. Mostly about storing food and having shelter. </p>
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<p>There are some that are preparing for other disasters that may happen. (earthquakes, flooding, solar flares)</p>
<p>Most are striving to be self sufficient, living off grid, growing their own food. </p>
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Awesome. yes, admitedly, I think these all seem like practical reasons to prepare.<br/><br/><cite>Wayne said:</cite>
<blockquote><div><p>Most folks on there are prepping for economic disasters or civil unrest. Mostly about storing food and having shelter. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>There are some that are preparing for other disasters that may happen. (earthquakes, flooding, solar flares)</p>
<p>Most are striving to be self sufficient, living off grid, growing their own food. </p>
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</blockquote> Most folks on there are prepp…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-22:4778851:Comment:1156312011-05-22T01:25:59.814ZWaynehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/Wayne
<p>Most folks on there are prepping for economic disasters or civil unrest. Mostly about storing food and having shelter. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>There are some that are preparing for other disasters that may happen. (earthquakes, flooding, solar flares)</p>
<p>Most are striving to be self sufficient, living off grid, growing their own food. </p>
<p>Most folks on there are prepping for economic disasters or civil unrest. Mostly about storing food and having shelter. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>There are some that are preparing for other disasters that may happen. (earthquakes, flooding, solar flares)</p>
<p>Most are striving to be self sufficient, living off grid, growing their own food. </p> you sound a lot like me -we a…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-22:4778851:Comment:1155322011-05-22T01:25:12.589ZAdam Shivershttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AdamShivers
you sound a lot like me -we are in town and need out! I tried building a greenhouse here and failed but have kept quail for a couple years now (currently at 70 or so) -we have around 20 doves (the dove was our "gateway animal"!) and we have 5 laying hens. I'm sure the neighbors want us to find a nice place in the country as well! <br></br><br></br><cite>Larry Hill said:</cite>
<blockquote><div><p>I've been looking for ways to become self-sufficient for many years now. I'm planning to sell my current…</p>
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you sound a lot like me -we are in town and need out! I tried building a greenhouse here and failed but have kept quail for a couple years now (currently at 70 or so) -we have around 20 doves (the dove was our "gateway animal"!) and we have 5 laying hens. I'm sure the neighbors want us to find a nice place in the country as well! <br/><br/><cite>Larry Hill said:</cite>
<blockquote><div><p>I've been looking for ways to become self-sufficient for many years now. I'm planning to sell my current home and make my move soon to a more rural location. I too am a "prepper" who sees the possibility of hard times ahead. I also believe that how we currently live our modern life is unsustainable in many ways.</p>
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<p>Like others have mentioned, I started with square-foot gardening, and have enjoyed it very much. My tiny new AP system has mostly been used for sprouting seedlings for the garden out back. (My system is rather small, though I hope to get a decent amount of food from it this winter.)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I had read about aquaculture, along with LOTS of other things I've been researching while I wait to make my move to the country. My plan is to at least have chickens too once we get there. And I've studied up on LOTS of other things, like cattle, sheep, etc. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I'm really not sure how I first found out about aquaponics. It might have been YouTube. But I found my way to Friendly Aquaponics' website and got the bug. I bought their manual for their tiny systems, and built my current system using that resource. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Now my plans for the new place have changed. I plan to build two greenhouses, one heated, one not. The heated one will have tilapia and warm-season plants. The unheated one will be partially earth-sheltered, and heated/cooled with "earthtubes." I plan to have another AP system in there with cool-season plants and either trout or perch. (Trout are my favorite fish, both for their beauty and yumminess, but they are fussier about their conditions. I KNOW yellow perch can live in just about anything, because I've caught them out of some water I wouldn't DARE eat anything out of, lol.)</p>
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</blockquote> sounds like a cool site - doe…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-22:4778851:Comment:1155312011-05-22T01:16:00.679ZAdam Shivershttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AdamShivers
sounds like a cool site - does it help with preparedness under semi normal circumstances?<br></br><br></br><cite>Wayne said:</cite>
<blockquote><div><p>I just did the math. 1.2acres minimum to feed one person for a year. How many billion people are there?</p>
<p>How many acres of farm land?</p>
<p>How many acres are we losing to development?</p>
<p>What if there are a couple bad years for crops?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Okay, I really didn't do the math. The questions were enough for me!</p>
<p>It isn't hard to…</p>
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sounds like a cool site - does it help with preparedness under semi normal circumstances?<br/><br/><cite>Wayne said:</cite>
<blockquote><div><p>I just did the math. 1.2acres minimum to feed one person for a year. How many billion people are there?</p>
<p>How many acres of farm land?</p>
<p>How many acres are we losing to development?</p>
<p>What if there are a couple bad years for crops?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Okay, I really didn't do the math. The questions were enough for me!</p>
<p>It isn't hard to figure out we can't keep increasing population and losing land to grow crops.</p>
<p>Oceans and lakes are over fished. Insecticides and herbicides are polluting everything. </p>
<p>Not to mention corporations that apparently will stop at nothing to make a profit.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am a survivalist and member of <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://2013.org/">2013.org</a> where people actually plan to live after the mythical 2012 apocalypse.</p>
<p>While researching better and safer ways to grow my own food I stumbled on to this forum. It answered so many questions and eliminated a lot of potential problems that soil gardening is prone to.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I wish there were more aquapons on the 2013 site because I believe Aquaponics is the best defense we have against world wide hunger.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>No I'm not a nut, I just play one on the internet. </p>
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</blockquote> that is awesome! I feel it's…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-22:4778851:Comment:1153422011-05-22T01:09:37.410ZAdam Shivershttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AdamShivers
that is awesome! I feel it's perfect even to just grow enough for your family! I hope to do this soon.<br></br><br></br><cite>Chris McMahon said:</cite>
<blockquote><div><p>I prayed to god and asked what I should be doing to flourish. I got a vision of planting seeds. That was years ago and I have worked through square foot gardening with some delicious success. Now I am on to starting Aquaponics. I see planting your own food as a great way to avoid GMO's and factory farming nightmares. I would also…</p>
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that is awesome! I feel it's perfect even to just grow enough for your family! I hope to do this soon.<br/><br/><cite>Chris McMahon said:</cite>
<blockquote><div><p>I prayed to god and asked what I should be doing to flourish. I got a vision of planting seeds. That was years ago and I have worked through square foot gardening with some delicious success. Now I am on to starting Aquaponics. I see planting your own food as a great way to avoid GMO's and factory farming nightmares. I would also like someday to go commercial with it. I don't know what crazy laws are going to come from a bankrupt government in the future. I may just end up putting food on my table. That is far from a bad thing in my opinion. We live in a perfect system of nature so we should be using it.</p>
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</blockquote> I've been looking for ways to…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-21:4778851:Comment:1153232011-05-21T20:26:11.486ZLarry Hillhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/LarryHill
<p>I've been looking for ways to become self-sufficient for many years now. I'm planning to sell my current home and make my move soon to a more rural location. I too am a "prepper" who sees the possibility of hard times ahead. I also believe that how we currently live our modern life is unsustainable in many ways.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Like others have mentioned, I started with square-foot gardening, and have enjoyed it very much. My tiny new AP system has mostly been used for sprouting…</p>
<p>I've been looking for ways to become self-sufficient for many years now. I'm planning to sell my current home and make my move soon to a more rural location. I too am a "prepper" who sees the possibility of hard times ahead. I also believe that how we currently live our modern life is unsustainable in many ways.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Like others have mentioned, I started with square-foot gardening, and have enjoyed it very much. My tiny new AP system has mostly been used for sprouting seedlings for the garden out back. (My system is rather small, though I hope to get a decent amount of food from it this winter.)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I had read about aquaculture, along with LOTS of other things I've been researching while I wait to make my move to the country. My plan is to at least have chickens too once we get there. And I've studied up on LOTS of other things, like cattle, sheep, etc. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>I'm really not sure how I first found out about aquaponics. It might have been YouTube. But I found my way to Friendly Aquaponics' website and got the bug. I bought their manual for their tiny systems, and built my current system using that resource. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Now my plans for the new place have changed. I plan to build two greenhouses, one heated, one not. The heated one will have tilapia and warm-season plants. The unheated one will be partially earth-sheltered, and heated/cooled with "earthtubes." I plan to have another AP system in there with cool-season plants and either trout or perch. (Trout are my favorite fish, both for their beauty and yumminess, but they are fussier about their conditions. I KNOW yellow perch can live in just about anything, because I've caught them out of some water I wouldn't DARE eat anything out of, lol.)</p>
<p> </p> I just did the math. 1.2acres…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2011-05-21:4778851:Comment:1156052011-05-21T19:58:42.686ZWaynehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/Wayne
<p>I just did the math. 1.2acres minimum to feed one person for a year. How many billion people are there?</p>
<p>How many acres of farm land?</p>
<p>How many acres are we losing to development?</p>
<p>What if there are a couple bad years for crops?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Okay, I really didn't do the math. The questions were enough for me!</p>
<p>It isn't hard to figure out we can't keep increasing population and losing land to grow crops.</p>
<p>Oceans and lakes are over fished. Insecticides…</p>
<p>I just did the math. 1.2acres minimum to feed one person for a year. How many billion people are there?</p>
<p>How many acres of farm land?</p>
<p>How many acres are we losing to development?</p>
<p>What if there are a couple bad years for crops?</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Okay, I really didn't do the math. The questions were enough for me!</p>
<p>It isn't hard to figure out we can't keep increasing population and losing land to grow crops.</p>
<p>Oceans and lakes are over fished. Insecticides and herbicides are polluting everything. </p>
<p>Not to mention corporations that apparently will stop at nothing to make a profit.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I am a survivalist and member of <a target="_blank" href="http://2013.org/">2013.org</a> where people actually plan to live after the mythical 2012 apocalypse.</p>
<p>While researching better and safer ways to grow my own food I stumbled on to this forum. It answered so many questions and eliminated a lot of potential problems that soil gardening is prone to.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I wish there were more aquapons on the 2013 site because I believe Aquaponics is the best defense we have against world wide hunger.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>No I'm not a nut, I just play one on the internet. </p>