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Vertical Gardens
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Jun17

Vertical Gardens

posted by Ecofilms

Making use of vertical wall space located in a sunny spot is a great way to grow your garden. In fact you don’t need pumps or complicated equipment to start growing your own vegetable garden. As long as you have a consistent amount of sunshine of around 6 hours per day and a collection...

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Aquaponics as Art
  • Aquaponics
Jun10

Aquaponics as Art

posted by Ecofilms

Here’s an interesting art exhibition held last year using a variation of aquaponics or worm tea as the nutrient to feed the plants.  Some people call it Vermi-aquaponics and its a simpler way to feed your plants without fish. The worms in a conventional compost heap create a worm tea, a...

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Aquaponics: The Power of Kale
  • Aquaponics
  • Plant Growth
May30

Aquaponics: The Powe...

posted by Ecofilms

Australian Television gardening guru Peter Cundall was well into his eighties when he was once asked why he looked so fit and healthy? His answer was, “The last time I went to a doctor because I was sick was in 1951.” “The reason why I’m so healthy is because I...

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Aquaponics Brewery powered by fish waste?
  • Aquaponics
  • System Designs
May09

Aquaponics Brewery p...

posted by Ecofilms

Is it a brewery or a tea shop or an aquaponics system or even a bit of a mixture of Permaculture design? It’s so crazy, it might just work? Wouldn’t it be great to have an aquaponics system running like a perpetual motion machine where you just add a few fish and some plants and...

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Harvesting Barramundi in Aquaponics
  • Aquaponics
  • Fish
Apr29

Harvesting Barramund...

posted by Ecofilms

There’s nothing finer than to grow your own fish in your own backyard – except perhaps catching them and eating them! Sometime ago we decided to grow a few Barramundi in our aquaponics system. We were told that they were a specialized fish and unsuitable to grow-out for the...

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Edible School Gardens Instructional DVD
  • School Gardens
Apr25

Edible School Garden...

posted by Ecofilms

Coming out towards the end of May 2012 is a DVD title we’ve been working on for well over a year. Leonie Shanahan’s Edible School Gardens DVD follows the design, implementation and construction of a working school garden from start to finish. Author and Educator Leonie Shanahan...

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Toxic Plants around your Aquaponics System
  • Aquaponics
  • Chemistry
Mar12

Toxic Plants around ...

posted by Ecofilms

Keeping an aquaponics system in the backyard is a lot of fun but do keep a careful eye on the trees and shrubs your have growing around your system as they could be toxic. Most plants are safe and toxic free but some species of flowering plants can be dangerous once the breeze catches them...

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Dr Wilson Lennard on Commercial Aquaponics Design
  • Commercial Systems
  • System Designs
Mar05

Dr Wilson Lennard on...

posted by Ecofilms

Recently Ecofilms Jane Gapinski  caught up with biologist and aquaponics consultant Dr Wilson Lennard who was running a little experimental commercial aquaponics system located at CERES a community farm and education center located in Melbourne, Australia. This community aquaponics system was...

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Cleaning a 3 Year old Grow Bed
  • Aquaponics
  • Filtration
Feb04

Cleaning a 3 Year ol...

posted by Ecofilms

Its a messy time consuming job but eventually you got to do it. Cleaning out a Grow-bed full of fish crap after three years of service. Following on from a previous post we wrote  about how long can old media growbeds last using using three quarter inch gravel? The answer seems to be around 5...

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Aquaponics Podcast with Green Acre Organics
  • Aquaponics
  • Commercial Systems
Jan31

Aquaponics Podcast w...

posted by Ecofilms

Continuing on in our audio podcast series of small hobby farm aquaponics people selling their produce locally, we talk with Gina Cavaliero of Green Acre Organics who is expanding her system from a 1000 square foot DWC “floating raft” system to a mix of NFT and Media Bed systems to...

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Gammarus: Nature’s Waste Disposal Unit
  • Aquaponics
  • Filtration
Jan29

Gammarus: NatureR...

posted by Ecofilms

Just as compost worms thrive in a media bed aquaponics system, the tiny Gammarus crustacean is ideal for Floating Raft and any Filtration systems where fish waste collects. Behold the Mighty Gammarus! by Damon Polta Behold one and all, I’m here to tell you about one of natures unsung...

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Jade Perch for Aquaponics: Podcast
  • Aquaponics
  • Fish
Jan28

Jade Perch for Aquap...

posted by Ecofilms

Continuing our Podcast series. Today we road test the vegetarian loving  Jade Perch with Murray Hallam. He’s always grabbing one out of his tank to show visitors. Whats so good about them? Should you consider growing Jade Perch if you live in a warm climate? What are the health benefits...

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