One thing most people don’t take into account when running an aquaponics system is – power failure. It often strikes when people least expect it. Many experienced aquaponics people will tell you the following tale. Their system was running perfectly for over a year. The fish were...

While we were shooting the Permaculture Soils video with Geoff Lawton, we noticed an array of shiny solar cookers being assembled on the jetty at Zaytuna Farm. Barb Ford from Brisbane was cooking the afternoon lunch for the woofers and students on the farm. Taking a break from our filming, we...

We recently installed a 1  KW solar panel array above our office here at Ecofilms. I must admit we didn’t give it too much thought until the installers arrived with the solar panels. Feeding back to the grid is one thing but having a inverter box bolted to the wall of the office with...