Elizabeth
Female
Los Altos, CA
United States
Profile Information:
- How did you find us?
- Search engine (Google)
- If you found us through a search engine, what search words were you using?
- If you found us through a referral or a newsletter, which was it?
- Sylvia's aquaponic gardening book
- Are you an aquaponic gardener already?
- No
- If so, what type of system? (pick all that apply)
- combination
- How old is your system?
- Just started
- What type of fish do you grow with? (select all that apply)
- Tilapia, Other
- How big is your fish tank?
- don't know yet
- Please tell us something else about yourself.
- Scientist/Mechanical Engineer
like to experiment
can build stuff really well
avid gardener
raise chickens
like cool stuff
Sylvia Bernstein
Welcome Elizabeth,
Thanks for joining the Aquaponic Gardening community! I hope you find it a fun place to explore aquaponics. There is a real blend of experienced and new aquapons in this community, so please don’t hesitate to get in there and start asking questions. Everyone is quite happy to help out new members – no question is too basic.
A great place to start is to read the “How to Use This Site” link on the upper right corner, “Start Here” section of the Home page. You might also find the “Aquaponic Gardening Rules of Thumb” guidelines helpful.
Please participate and check in with us every day! We are constantly posting news about aquaponics and the good food movement.
Thanks again for joining us, and I look forward to getting to know you.
Sylvia
Feb 7, 2012
Dave & Yvonne Story
Welcome
You will find this is a group of friendly people. You can learn, teach and have fun.
Like you, I love experimenting with my AP garden.
Dave
Feb 7, 2012
Chi Ma
Welcome! :)
Feb 25, 2012
Carey Ma
Welcome to our lil community. I'm sure you'll feel right at home. Nice drawing.
Feb 26, 2012
matthew ferrell
I like to think I do, but were are all full of our own BS here.
Feb 26, 2012
malcolm winther
Hi Elizabeth
Thanks for your friend invite.
My wife and I look after Chateau de Clerac, the link is
http://chateau-de-clerac.com/GB/home.htm
We have been here since April last year, meeting and greeting self caterers who stay for a week at a time, only summer... (busyish) only Saturday is busy for me. So lots of time on my hands and lots of old barns here.
Perfect scenario for AP...I have loads of timber... my plan is to build a 3 meter wooden fish tank and line it with a 3m X 5 m pond liner (3000 liters I think), which should allow me to grow 9m X 1m area...same again, use what I have available. I know there is a trout farmer somewhere in the area...will use those when I find him. Cannot speak much French so the challenges are many. I have been taking notes from an Australian guy...Murray Hallam..
What a brilliant and helpful forum this is.
Speak soon
Malcolm
Feb 26, 2012
Chris Schup
Welcome to the community and thanks for the invite. Looking forward to sharing lots of information as our systems up and running.
Mar 1, 2012
Dave & Yvonne Story
Sorry to get back to you so late.
Re: fishing
If your children are not too patient, they can fish like I do. (December 15, 2011), the fish in this photo are 7 mos old. from my aquaponic system.
Mar 4, 2012
Dave & Yvonne Story
These are White Nile Tilapia.
I am guessing some are about 18 inches, this morning.
I always recommend starting slow and easy. I have seen a lot of people get burned-out because they took the difficult way and too many fish to start.
I recommend getting most of your setup from Ace hardware.
two tanks,1 for your fish and 1 for crops.
1. the fish either a 100 gal or 150 gal Rubbermaid water tank
2. the crop.. a 50 gal tank
the fish tank on the bottom with a pump to the crop tank
If you are interested, I can take some pictures for you and your children
Dave
Mar 4, 2012
David Schwinghamer
Hello again, any progress with your system?
Mar 11, 2012