What do folks grow in the northern lattitudes during winter? How do you adjust for the substantial decrease in sunlight? Is it ever cost effective to add grow...
Hey Bill, Sorry it took so long to get back to you. Been working on my barn and trying to get a roof on it before leaving for Kenya for a month to build a...
jambo travis, interesting to hear u are going to kenya to do som ponics. i have a friend there who is journalist for a commercial paper. she is interested in...
Jambo Ray, I would welcome the contact and the possible exposure to our work there. I will arrive in Nairobi the 24th of Nov. (Friday night) and will be...
Travis, We were involved in a project on Lake Victoria a few years ago. A company was paid to harvest water weeds from the lake and we did the design of an...
Hey Karen, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. I have been extremely busy trying to get the roof on the barn before I leave for Kenya this thursday. We...
Hey Neal, Thanks for the info. The situation there is definitely interesting, to say the least. I wonder if some sort of rendering plant might work out there...
Travis, Wanted to let you know, that your barrel-ponics manual is a big hit with a meat rabbits group that I'm on. We got discusing eco-farming methods, and...
Hey April, Thanks for the good news. We are in the London Heathrow airport right now on our way to Kenya to build two of the barrelponics systems as training...
hey gang, I'm trying homemade aquaponics part two. I am finishing up the new set up and would like to try starting the plants from seed within the system....
... Hi Mark, I just put the seeds directly in the grow bed, then with a cup, I get some fish water and water the top of the grow bed a few time and thats it....
I heard of placing the seed in a cotton ball ( or half a cotton ball if it is small ), then put the cotton ball directly in the grow bed. That way it...
Mark, Small seeds you can just scatter across the top of the gravel, larger ones just push in with your finger. I like to water for a couple of days with a...
And thanks for inviting me in.Been gardening since I was a kid and still injoy it very much.Like to experiment and this looks very interesting. Looking forward...
Hello all! My name is Mike, and I'm an English teacher at an alternative school in Raleigh, North Carolina. I'm 27 and got married in August. I have a...
Just got back from Kenya, Africa last night! Jet lagging in a serious way right now and will get photo's of the barrelponics system in Karatina, Kenya after...
Hey David, Just an opinion but I think the small size of the fish tank would not lend itself to predatory species as they would chase the feeder fish used for...
Yeah,I suppose you guys are right.I quess bluegills would be better.Was thinking that if I raised walleye,I wouldn't have to heat the water.And there is a good...
Don't give up on the walleye idea. Visit someone who is raising them in tanks instead of ponds and just scale it different. Unless you live up in the way...
Travis,If I didn't heat the water ,would that affect the growth of the fish?As in slowing or stunting the growth?I live in Iowa,and it USUALLY is cold this...
hi David, I currently have aprox. 25,000 bluegills up here in MN. they do slow down as water temp drops but do still eat. this year I'm using a combo of an...
Mike, 25,000?WOW! Now are these the hybrids?You obviously have a market for these? Can I ask,do you filet these or sell them whole? Still trying to imagine...
I haven't sold a single one yet. but the local grocery store and a couple restaurants are eager to start getting them and the produce from the greenhouse. I...
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