Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

The Banana Cam video!

Any one else notice that the building is breathing! only one breath a day but still!! Just proves that AP is "alive and well"!

That was cool, Rob.

Let's go for a hike around our farm and chat a little about what's been going on lately. N.U.T.S #2 is now ready!

Enjoyed the tour Rob, great looking place. Kudos to your camera assistant who did a respectable job of keeping you in the frame

Cheers

Great tour.
Question. Do you carry a gun on the off chance you find the bear.

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Awesome Rob. I'm green with envy and whatever colour it is with your enterprise!

I don't carry very often. I have a .22 that I use for squirrel control. It's very rare we see a bear - they like to keep away from people. It's the coyotes and mountain lions I'm not a big fan of!

Hey rob.
I have been following you for a while on you tube and have enjoyed your system set up and how to clips. I am using your bell siphon set up and its working really well for me.
I have the drain set up a bit different.
I have 2 beds on each side of the fish tank. Both coming from the beds with a 25mm stand pipe. Into the same 40mm pipe with a T. And to the fish tank. Even when both bed drain at the same time it doesn't slow the drain time down. And I dont have a U bend under the bed ether. Starts and stops each time perfectly.
Thanks for the idea and sharing your knowledge.

Ps and its easier to talk on here the YouTube.

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Not exactly aquaponics, but the end result will be used to heat the greenhouse for our aquaponic system. One of my goals is to come up with a way to heat the greenhouse with bio-waste, mainly wood chips, without the need and expense of making actual pellets. This is the first step towards that goal.

Here's a nice article written about our operation in a paper that promotes local businesses. I had forgotten I had done the interview...look how tiny that banana tree was! Article starts on page 12. Sorry the PDF is a bit large (12MB).

http://www.putnamtraveler.com/issues/2013/fall2013.pdf

This is the end of our aquaponic grown banana tree. It was pretty amazing how fast it grew, but it just got too big for our greenhouse.

Hope you saved those leaves Rob, they can be used for cooking or serving food. For anyone who isn't a vegetarian try Cochinita Pibil cooked in banana leaves.
http://theothersideofthetortilla.com/2009/09/cochinita-pibil/#axzz2jh4hFuXJ

or you can do it this way;

Cochinita Pibil Slow Cooker version, that's just served on banana leaves
http://theothersideofthetortilla.com/2011/01/crock-pot-cochinita-pibil-panuchos-yucatecos/#axzz2jh4hFuXJ

Pollo Pibil is also very good.

You can do them without banana leaves but the flavor, while excellent, is different.

LOL,

The Cook saw your video and said been there done that!!!!
You actually had a surprisingly easy time digging that one out, the one that broke the 100 gallon stock tank here nearly gave the cook a hernia getting it out.

If you want to try something tropical that you might actually be able to get to fruit inside the greenhouse, you could look at doing Papaya.
And if you ever want to try banana again, order yourself some of the variety "Truly Tiny" banana plants.