Full Day Hands-on Workshop in Vancouver, BC - May 24

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This one day workshop equips you with everything you need to start growing food sustainably using aquaponics. It includes a morning of instruction and an afternoon of hands on construction of a backyard system. Topics include:

• System Design: best practices and optimal ratios
• System Cycling: starting up a new system wihtout stressing your fish
• Maintaining your system: day to day operation including water quality testing, pH management, oxygen and other parameters
• Plants: from seeding to harvest, troubleshooting, nutrients
• Fish: how to maintain healthy happy fish; good husbandry practices
• Construction: hands on build of a hybrid backyard system that includes media and raft growing area

Date: May 24, 2014 (Saturday)

Venue: Unit 105 - 418 East Kent Ave South, Vancouver, BC

Contact [e-mail] for more information or visit http://www.justaquaponics.ca/learn/