Ria’s aquaponics journey

As part of my aquaponics journey, I have been experimenting with setting up my own system. This is my story so far.

I love challenges, so I gave myself a real challenge, by building the system in the forest that is my backyard. So I only get 3-4 hours sunshine which is not ideal for vegetables. Almost all vegetable seeds I find in the shops say…

The free aquaponics diary on www.ourresearch.net now has a new feature - a photo diary.

The photo diary allows you to upload photos of your system, so that you can see the changes over a period of time, and correlate these with what else happened at that time.

I am planning to use this to track plant growth.  Below you can see my new photo diary, including photos of some new seedlings I just added. I will take pictures of the same plants…

As a newcomer to aquaponics (I set up my first system 6 months ago) I am impressed by the innovation of its users.

At the same time I was contemplating going back to do research, so I decided that I can combine my interest in research with my interest in aquaponics. But rather than run my own research project, I want to tap into the expertise of all the people who run their own system. After all they are the experts, rather than me a newcomer.

So I have set up a citizen science…