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Comment by Kent Biswanger on November 22, 2013 at 11:58am

We are in Peoria close to 83rd and Thunderbird. Thanks for the kind wishes, this group has always been free with advice and I hope to learn more as I ask questions while we get the operation up and running.

Comment by John Malone on November 22, 2013 at 7:56am

Tomato Harvest Has Begun

Comment by John Malone on November 22, 2013 at 7:55am

@Kent

Way to go.  Living the dream.  Good for you.

Blessings

Comment by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. on November 22, 2013 at 7:12am

Best wishes (much better than good luck) Kent!!!!!! The region needs this.

Comment by Lynn Engel on November 21, 2013 at 11:48pm

Kent, What part of the valley did you locate to ?  Best wishes on your new effort.

Sounds exciting !!!

Comment by Kent Biswanger on November 21, 2013 at 8:24pm

Its been quite some time since I've been on but I have managed to keep up with most of the posts. We moved to a new home and have an acre to play with now so I've added chickens and built out more grow beds for testing what will grow well in Phoenix.

My plan has been to build a commercial Aquaponics garden and see if I can make it as a farmer, the plans have been drawn up and we broke ground on our first 1600 sq' of grow beds last week. It will take some time and a lot of work but I hope to be open for business early in the spring. we have enough space to expand to 15,000 sq' of DWC and another 1800 sq' of dutch buckets, hopefully the business plan works. 

I'm in need of some fish so anyone who has some to spare please let me know. Once we get past the land leveling stage I will invite anyone who wants to come and give their 2 cents over to see what we are doing.

Comment by Kim Romen on November 19, 2013 at 9:19pm

Thanks to all of you.  Interesting and informative!  Sounds like insulation is used by all of you, but heating units aren't all that popular.  Did the math BTW and it'd be about 55 cents for 10 hrs of running a 500 watt pump on city of phx basic electric.

Comment by Robert Rowe on November 19, 2013 at 12:28pm

@John

You have my attention, I had to spend $90.00 for my 3 remote sensing data logging pool thermometers. I would be interested in building your kind of facilities into a tablet.

Comment by Jim Troyer on November 19, 2013 at 11:12am

Thanks John! that is interesting

My above ground jacuzzi system is running 5-6 degrees colder overnight temperatures than my in-ground pond system.  Gonna have to do some work insulating in the next few days

Comment by John Malone on November 18, 2013 at 8:55pm

Fish Tank Temperature

I have an Arduino data logger sending the temperature to the web every 6 seconds. Click on these links to see recent data:

• Last 24 hours
• Last 2 days
• Last 3 days

I find it interesting.  Others might not.  

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