Yesterday we had a visit from our good friend Wolfgang Seemann, who happens to also be an electrical engineer and computer systems builder. Wolfgang had seen our Aquaponics system before and had been thinking independently of a way to automate the whole process a lot more efficiently. His...
Deep Litter Chicken ...
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Trying to see Anne Wensley’s chicken coop is hard to spot at first. Thats because it doesn’t really look like a traditional chicken coop. Anne has a mass of vines and creepers covering her chicken run in her suburban backyard. A choko vine covered in...
Affnan’s Excel...
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Since Malaysian Affnan Ramli began tinkering with Aquaponics a few years ago in his small backyard, he has successfully managed to redesign and simplify one of the central pieces of kit used in Aquaponics – The Auto-Siphon. Affnan runs a very successful blog where he constantly shares...
Dr Wilson Lennard on...
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Dr Wilson Lennard is an Australian scientist with a PhD in Applied Biology. He has studied and installed commercial aquaponics systems around the world. In this final part four, he turns his attention to the future of aquaponics and the threats that can set it back many years....
Dr Wilson Lennard on...
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Dr Wilson Lennard is an Australian scientist with a PhD in Applied Biology. He has studied and installed commercial aquaponics systems around the world. In this extended interview, part three, he turns his attention to Commercial Systems and talks about the reasons why he designed his fish...
Dr Wilson Lennard on...
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Dr Wilson Lennard is an Australian scientist with a PhD in Applied Biology. He has studied and installed commercial aquaponics systems around the world. In this extended interview, part two, he turns his attention to back-yard tinkerers in Aquaponics. If you have added Seasol or Maxicrop to...
Dr Wilson Lennard on...
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Dr Wilson Lennard is an Australian scientist with a PhD in Applied Biology. He has studied and installed commercial aquaponics systems around the world. In this extended interview, over the coming days, Dr Lennard will discuss the state of play in Aquaponics research today, as well as his...
Aloe vera in Aquapon...
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Recently while filming in Murray Hallam’s Aquaponics greenhouse we noticed a few odd plants that were growing in the corner of his grow bed. While most people use Aquaponics to grow fresh vegetables like lettuce and tomatoes in their systems, Murray likes to experiment a fair bit and...
EcoFilms 2011 What a...
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We’re planning a number of exciting new titles to be released in 2011. Urban Permaculture DVD One of the complaints we often get from people living in the city is that we focus a little heavily on Permaculture titles that require a large scale farm to get the most benefit from...
Fish Stress in Aquap...
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Aquaponic systems run pretty well for the most part, with minimal supervision needed once all the plumbing is connected and the fish are happy and the seedlings are all planted out. As a food production system, they work...
Getting an Aquaponic...
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They are probably the hardest little workers you never get to see or meet or even shake their hand – if they had such a thing. Well actually that’s not entirely true. In fact you do get to shake their hand every time you plant a new seedling in your aquaponics system or plunge...
The Future of Fish F...
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Its no secret that the world is eating more farmed fish than ever before. According to the World Wide Institute nearly half the seafood the world eats today is farmed. On average, each person on the planet is eating four times as much seafood as was consumed in 1950. Experts predict that...
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