I tried to write this out once but it sounded a little preachy so I removed it. So, here it is again....

 

My project started originally with aquaculture about 6 or 7 years ago.  I wanted to be able to raise my own fish in a pond that I have on my property.  I was having trouble with filtration.  I visited a facility called the "Living Machine," (I posted a diagram a few weeks ago.) Anyway, I dug another pond that I was going to put a greenhouse over and try using the water to…

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I just started with aquaponics. Building a 200 gallon tank in our living room. It is part of what we are calling our green room. We tore down the outside wall of our house along the living room to combine it with a 6'x12' section of porch that is closed in on the outer side by 2 banked 4'x5 windows side by side, allowing sun in on the gardens above our 2 tanks.I'll post some pictures when it's finished and is up and running. We also have a greenhouse and about 1000 sq. Ft. Of traditional… Continue

Time for all the plant experts to wade in please!  I have been tinkering with a number of different media-less / media filled growing configurations of late.  The ones that interested me the most in the end was partly filtered versus “dirty” NFT.  The reason why this has become interesting for me relates back to the type of technology that is required to run these.  Should there be some way of making “dirty” NFT work, then there should be an advantage in trying to understand what I am…

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