I highly recommend this technical paper published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It provides a complete reference for small scale aquaponics and shows how to build three small scale systems using IBC Totes. Somerville, C., Cohen, M., Pantanella, E., Stankus, A. & Lovatelli, A. 2014. Small-scale aquaponic food production. Integrated…
The fish had not been eating as much and the plants were not growing well. A crop of Butterhead lettuce seedlings all died within two weeks of being rafted. Something was wrong. Background I’ve been operating my backyard 48 square foot deep water culture Aquaponics system for about 4 years now and have never seen…
In less than a week the first crop of Butterhead and Red Romaine lettuce has sprouted!
Today the Aquaponics grade Blue Tilapia were delivered from Lakeway Tilapia and added to the TOL system. The system water tank was 82 degrees and the shipping water bag was about 78 degrees. The system water was pH 7.5 and the shipping bag was pH 7.8. So everything looked good for adding the fingerlings to…
Tree Of Life Ministries Food Pantry is ready to grow 72 plants per week, year round in this new Aquaponics Greenhouse designed and built by Grace Aquaponics.
I planted 36 TRUCHAS OG MTO seeds from Johnny’s Selected Seeds on 1/5/2019 in a 36 cell propagation tray using a 60%/40% mix of Coconut Coir/ Vermiculite as a planting media. I’ve found that these seeds germinated better without the use of a propagation mat (or heating pad) with an optimal surface temperature of 68…
My Niece Allie loves Kale so we gave her a bouquet to take back to college! Fresh cut organic baby Kale from our Aquaponic garden. Kale grows great in the cold – the outside temperature was in the low 30s (F) last night and the green house was about 45 degrees Fahrenheit. I’ve been cutting…
Normally, we harvest the whole plant when it reaches maturity, but I’ve been experimenting with cutting Kale leaves off the plant rather than removing the entire plant. We had a baby Kale salad at a restaurant and it got me to thinking about harvesting Kale while the leaves were small. The young leaves are tender…
In my last video on harvesting lettuce, I did not show the actual harvesting! So here’s a quick update video on how we do that.
Happy 4th of July! Several people have asked for a tour of my greenhouse, so here is a more detailed walk through during my Friday morning harvest. This video is posted on YouTube here:
