Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Ryan,

Cool, we eat heaps of shoots and lettuce leaves. Cost a fortune, but yummy and the kids eat them no complaints, unlike rocket.....

Glad to help Dr Bee! You can actually grow any shoot (as far as I have tried) in AP so just source bulk organic seed and it will be a ton cheaper than buying them. I think (from memory) I can grow 1 flat of snow pea shoots for $4 but can harvest it 3 times so thats $1.33 per flat. We sell them in smaller quantities that work out to $18-24 per flat depending on season...bulk suppliers sell wholesale to our restaurants for $30/flat and the product is already several days old (so were still much cheaper). Don't know what they charge in Au but I doubt it's less than $1.33/flat

We can buy the snow pea sprouts here, I think it's about $4 for a little punnet (slightly bigger than the small cherry tomato punnets) in the restaurants, which makes them way too expensive to make a nice salad from, and they are usually the tough part of the plant. No idea how big your flat is though.

Things like bean shoots however are super cheap.

I tried out your corn sprouts (with sweet corn), and they were a little too strong for me, but worked alright in a salad.

With the peas, do you grow them from plain field straw type peas? My next project was going to be a long fodder sprouter, which should work just as well growing sprouts for salads.

Just finished reading all 75 pages!
Great job and congratulations on everything that you have accomplished Ryan, truly an inspiration.
On you center bottom drains in your FT, did they come with the overflow standpipe or is that something you added yourself? I was thinking about adding something like that to my ibc FT. I want to do a bottom drain so i can go directly up the bottom of my RFF.
Thanks!

Ryan,

Are you planning on video taping the seminar. And maybe selling the videos and the booklet. To people who want to learn but cant afford to go to the real thing?

The flats are 10" x 20" so you can get 6-8 punnets out of each flat
I use a Nori Peas, Snow Peas, Pea mixes that are sold for sprout production but you can use any peas. It will work fine on your fodder table, same principle!

Thanks Fishnchips!
They did not come with the stand pipe or anything. I had to fab up a lot of pieces for my tanks and filtration system with a table saw, jig saw, router and drill.

Floridafishin- unfortunately probably not. I'm going to try and get all the presentations recorded but not sure how that's going to work out quality wise without hiring an AV guy to record it. We will spend a lot of time on the farm doing hands on as well and I'm not sure how I will get all that recorded (maybe buy a go pro and wear it on my head ha ha). I am working on something else that will hopefully be accessible late this year but can't really go into detail yet.

Go pros relatively low price makes them easy to setup for recording seminars. You can get multiple cameras setup so you can easily edit the best shots into a good video.

If you send me all the files, I could pull them all into a video for you!

Ryan, did you end up setting up an nft system outside the GH? I think I read something like that earlier in your thread.

I did just get a drone for christmas with HD vid, maybe I'll do some fly bys during a hands on or something


Fish- yes, I've got an 800 ish site system, a few hundred Dutch buckets and more DWC in a decoupled system that I haven't posted any pics of yet

Can't wait!

Can't wait to see your nft DB setup. Get that drone in the air!

Or he could have my video guy shoot the conference and we could put it together and Ryan could sell it on-line to folks who can't make the trip to Fl. This is a good example of the work we do. I say "we", because it's my company, but I don't know the video side of it like my editor does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG-LfOyoHAY
This young lady had over a dozen college coaches recruiting her, and she is in her sophomore season at West Florida, on a 100% offer.