Backyard Aquaponics
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looking like a cool system you are building. and i'm super jealous of the one you get to manage at work.

Just read through your thread Ryan, awesome stuff! You are so much an APer that you bleed fishwater!

Any new pic's Ryan?

Thanks guys!

Hey Charlie, I'm up in Milwaukee at Will Allen's urban farms conference so don't have a lot with me but here's my booth and a far away pic of Will and a huge crowd!



Ill try to get some stuff up this week . Just too frickin busy lately

Sounds interesting hope you pass on any new information to us all.

Well, I can't say I heard any new groundbreaking information but there was a big interest from a lot of people wanting to create small scale community AP systems and several guys going to different parts of Africa to build ap systems in orphanages. It was a lot more focused on feeding people then making profits. We actually just had a customer finish building a system in an African orphanage and the pic of the kids faces holding their first harvest is priceless.

I also had a guy tell me he just invented the first commercial ap system...
ROFL

Still, i love talking to people that actually have an interest in AP. Good on Will Allen for getting the word out there to so many people.

Waiting for my plane and I'll be home by midnight....back into work at 7
Yuck!

Glad to hear that it went we'll Ryan. Thanks for keeping us posted.

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Waiting for an Ag inspector and thought I might toss up a few current pics

The top picture: can you explain that system? Is it a track system and how do you harvest the middle plants, etc...?

LOL (the mantis pic) "YO, what you lookin at?"

Yeah Bill, it's an NFT system and we plant from one side and harvest from the other so we are always harvesting from one end. We remove the tray, harvest, slide the others down, pressure wash and replace with seedlings at the opposite end. You can reach up between and harvest from the middle if you want but it messes up the continuous harvest cycle that we do.

Very cool cloud pictures! Was that your visit from hurricane Isaac?
I liked the mantis pic, too. I actually saw one walking across a road the other day. Which begs the question, "Why did the praying mantis cross the road?"

Thanks! And yeah Jimbo...thought the greenhouse was going to get sucked out of the ground but it didnt budge at all. I actually feel a lot better about loading it up with equipment after watching it go through that storm.


I brought the first tank home yesterday! 7 to go


Making progress!

All looks well, great growth from the plants

Great pics Ryan!

Always watching and was hoping to find out how your travels have been whilst I was away. Looks like you still dont have much time for the home venture!... but we dont mind

Maybe you need some workers?... Ill pay for flights and $50/hour Im yours mate...

Looking great and keep us posted champ