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At 7:35am on July 29, 2011, Marisa Dawson said…

Thanks Gina, for your warm welcome to this group.

As you know, I am the robotics coordinator for Orlando Science School, and we may be contacting you about a field trip to your farm.  I know you run a large commercial farm, we are looking for small sustainable backyard systems as part of our community project for our First Lego League robotics teams.

If you know anyone who is doing small systems, we would love to hear from them.

Thanks, Marisa

At 9:11am on July 28, 2011, Walter A. Hutterli said…

Hello Gina,

Thanks again for welcoming me to the Forum.

I have a first question. Do you know of any AQUAPONICS setup that works with no pump? Here in Panama there are many areas where there is no electricity and people can not afford a solar panel. In such areas such water flow system by gravity could be useful. I would imagine that fresh water (example from a river) would have to come into the fish pond or fish container on a permanent basis and then from the pond directed into the growing beds. This would eliminate a recycling of the same water to be used. This system could work in areas where there is abundance of water available. Concern has to be given that water coming out of the grow beds is properly purified if directed back to a river or other. The other concern I would have just now is that a balance has to have a good balance on the water flow. Then I dont know if the water from a fish pond can be taken from the upper surface or is better to obtain is from the bottom of such pond or tank.

As further comment: We do have already a simple pond with tons of Tilapia. This has been working for years quite well and feeds an entire family in such remote location (with no electricity). They (fish) feed from plants and mosquitos and are seldomly fed with other type of food. They have a continuous flow of water input coming from a river. We are thinking of redirecting the water coming out of this pond to water some grow beds. Are there some ideas or concerns on how to go about for this or other we need to consider?

Please advise.

Kind regards.

Walter

Panama

At 6:56pm on July 27, 2011, sheri huff said…
Thanks Gina. I'll be keeping intouch.
At 9:34am on July 27, 2011, John Dattola said…

Hi Miss Gina:

Thank you for the website for the conference. We would certainly like to attend. I have already contacted Friendly Aquaponics in Hawaii. From their e-mail to me, and their video they seem to be all that their company name implys. They are friendly, knowledgeable, and very giving. It is too bad more don't realize, YOU CANNOT OUTGIVE GOD.

Have a fantastic day.

John Dattola

At 8:02am on July 27, 2011, Walter A. Hutterli said…

Hello Gina,

Thanks for the the welcome!

Am sure I will profit from your website and knowledge of its members!

Greetings from Panama!

Walter

 

At 5:54pm on July 26, 2011, TCLynx said…
YEP
At 12:29pm on July 26, 2011, Joseph Alecci said…

Sweet!  I feel at home already.

So my plan is to learn the principles on a small scale and then eventually move up to commercial aquaponics.

Besides this wonderful website do you have any other sources of information for the beginner? 

Book suggestions?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks Gina. 

At 12:13pm on July 26, 2011, Joseph Alecci said…

Hi Gina, thanks for the warm greetings.

 

I am brand spankin new to Aquaponics and already a full blown addict.

I look forward to getting to know this community of like-minded individuals.

 

Please be kind to the newbie!  Like I tell my children, there are no dumb questions.

 

Peace and blessings....

At 9:45am on July 26, 2011, DANN RIVERA said…

Thanks Gina for the warm welcome.  Aquaponics is a new idea for me and I'm excited to take this journey.  I hope I shall be ble to share this with my community.

 

Once again a big THANKS!

At 9:10am on July 26, 2011, John Dattola said…

Hi Gina:

I will certainly look at the website you gave me for the folks in Hawaii. If the training is in Hawaii that would certainly be perfect for me. Before we send our belongings to Hawaii we would like to visit Epcot City and see their display of aquaponics and hydroponics. As soon as our Pod leaves for Hawaii we will be flying to Manila and also Malaysia, so I might not be available for Florida. Please tell me again the date and place in Florida, and if possible we will do our best to be there. I am an Italian-American, that is a Calabrese. Make it a fantastic day,

John

At 9:05am on July 26, 2011, Ann Forsthoefel said…

Hi Gina,

 

Have heard great things about you from Sylvia. Look forward to meeting you in September 

 

Ann

At 7:19am on July 26, 2011, Nick LaHaise said…

Aloha Gina!  

 

Thanks for adding me as a friend!  I would love to make it out in Sept for the conference and see how awesome Green Acre is.  Are you aware of any volunteer or work-trade opportunities for the conference?  Finances are a continual roadblock for me.  

 

Thank you for your help

At 8:08pm on July 25, 2011, John Dattola said…

Hi Gina,

I don't know if you are a Paisan, but your name certainly is.

I am proud to be a new member of your fine organization. Thank you for making me feel welcome

One of your members in Hilo, Hawaii gave me your website. We will be relocating to Hawaii in several weeks. I was definitely going to start Hydroponics on a commercial basis, but now I am sold on Aquaponics. Supposing someone wanted to raise 1Million lbs. of Tilapia per year. How much Hydroponics would it take to keep the fishponds clean. Is what I am saying possible? I am looking forward to participating in a class as soon as possible to start learning. Please let me know when a seminar, or especially a class is available. I welcome all the advice and information I can get. Thanks again Gina.

Very sincerely yours,

John Dattola

At 4:36pm on July 25, 2011, Barry Dehart said…
Gina, thanks for the welcome. I'm interested in the potential of a small commercial endeavor. I have been casually looking into it for about a year but now I'm becoming more serious. I'm looking foward to learning more. :D
At 11:00am on July 25, 2011, Molly Stanek said…

Thank you for watching over the site while Sylvia's off on vacation, Gina.  :)  

I'm very happy to make your acquaintance and I'm really looking forward to meeting you in person at the conference.

 

At 6:42am on July 25, 2011, Eugene Sydorov said…

Thank you Gina.

I'm very proud to be one of you!

Eugene

At 4:23pm on July 24, 2011, Tawnya Sawyer said…

Hi Gina-

I so infrequently get a chance to be on this site, with three small kids and two businesses. I just enjoyed reading your commercial AP post. I have followed your progress over the year and congratulate you both on getting so far so fast. You are right, that a good business person will look at all options not just the most obvious. These type of things will differentiate, not everyone has the skills to run a thriving business, grow food, consult or teach and if you do, you might as well use them. Well done. I wish I had a chance to come out and see what you all are doing. JD (my other half), will be down for the conference and is looking forward to meeting you.

Also, if you haven't already connected with her, I would highly recommend reaching out to Marianne Cafone. She was with the Alliance for Sustainable Aquaculture at the Food and Water Watch, but has started the Recirculating Farms Coalition. She has access to a good number of interns and government folks in DC and is a lawyer herself. She recently came to Denver for a tour and we hit it off, I know she meet Sylvia while she was here as well. She plans on coming to the conference and plans to work with all of you to make the aquaponics guidelines you all will be drafting more recognized and upheld standard. You probably have already connected,  but if not her email address is mcufone@recirculatingfarms.org. She would definitely be a good person to help since she has been in the industry so long and is passionate about seeing aquaponics excel into the future. 

I look forward to sneeking a peek here and there into what is going on with all the aquaponics members. TCLynx is right, we certainly don't have time to ever post, but we appreciate everyone who makes the time. Until then, we are in extensive business planning mode on our own 15,000 sq ft greenhouse facility that will be opening up in Arvada, Co later this year. 

At 5:23pm on July 23, 2011, Murray Hallam said…
Look forward to meeting you in Orlando.
At 4:02pm on July 23, 2011, Tom Knoll said…

Hey Gina - I'm very happy to connect.  We should have a conversation.  I think there would be much to talk about.

Tom

 

At 8:38pm on July 20, 2011, TCLynx said…

I noticed that Green Acres isn't on the map either (only reason I really note it.)

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