Backyard Aquaponics
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Hi Ryan, great work on the course, I will definitely be a student one day. Just have quite a few other issues to move out of the way first.
You should add the course URL onto your signature.

Martin.

Thanks Martin!

Still running strong and getting ready for another killer season!


This year I am growing some eggplant trees to the overhead cables and letting them sprawl out, should be awesome! Still growing many other fun varieties too. Hope you guys are well ! I'll post some recent pictures when I get a few!

Hi Ryan, good to see you're busy

Ryan,

If your in the pic for the course do we get a discount on the refresher

Randy

Thanks Scotty! Feels like I'm busier than ever!
Randy! Hope you're doing good my friend. Shoot me an email if you're interested and we can talk for sure. The online course is getting fantastic reviews and is now about 24hours of video content

Quick update: We're going through hurricane Mathew right now but hoping for the best.
Greenhouse is doing great and my eggplant trees are 9' tall right now... Hoping they don't get destroyed bc they are pretty tough but I'm sure I'll loose some stuff out there. I've got pics on my Chatterson farms Facebook page but haven't uploaded them to photobucket to post here yet.

Other than getting pummeled by wind and rain, I'm doing several new plant trials this year, providing for a 52 member CSA, working with 7 restaurants and doing some work in industrial scale integration. I spoke at the international conference on recirculating aquaculture a month ago to a filled room (compared to 4 yrs ago when there were 5-10 people) and I'll be a keynote speaker out at the AP association conference in Nov if anyone happens to be there. Things are always busy but I enjoy it and I'll take this over desk work any day of the week. We have been in operation for over 3 yrs now and have produced over 100,000lbs of produce for our community... It feels good!

I hope everyone is doing good and will keep checking in from time to time!

Incredible as always Ryan. Best of luck with the storm.

Did the greenhouse make it? Hopefully you did not get anything more than I got in Polk City. Just a prolonged summer thunderstorm. With a LOT of rain. Probably a round 5in.

Thanks for the update Ryan, great to hear how well the farm is doing.

Hi Ryan,

Like many other along the way, I just read through this thread and enjoyed it immensely! Of course, it would have gone a lot faster if I had started with Martin's excellent summary... :-)

Thanks for posting such inspirational content and for everyone else who has added so much to this thread. Quite amazing. Hope all is well after Matthew.

Cheers,
Jeff

Thanks everyone! We survived with just some minor damage to some lettuces.

Do you have an update on your farm?

He posts most updates on his facebook page. I would check there since I know he is super busy...

He also doesn't allow visitors to view his GH, unless you buy his program.

He posts tons of pictures of his greenhouse online both here and on facebook. I have been to his farm and the pictures are accurate.

OP, I don't know if he'll allow you to visit even if you buy his program. I hoped to visit his farm & see the plumbing on his DWC's before building mine. I offered to pay him AND sign a NDA just for a visit and he told me no. But someone else told me that they did visit him and he was very hospitable. So I guess it varies from person to person. Or maybe its the moon phase or tides? Or maybe its the position of the earth in relation to Mars & the sun?

I'm certain that he'll have a very elaborate response as to why he lets / doesn't let people on his farm.

I was pretty bummed out about it though, and truly did not expect his refusal. Anyone knows me here can see I'm pretty busy in the sign industry, and have no intention whatsoever doing this commercially and pose no threat commercially (plus I probably wouldn't have the patience to do this commercially). I'm doing this to feed my family healthier food. Plus I'm friggin thousands of miles away! But hey, bottom line its his farm and one has to respect his decision.