Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Arrives this Saturday Martin, hopefully no damage to report which is my main concern. We got a call from them yesterday and it has arrived at the city close by so should be a timely delivery on Saturday morning at our new house. Exciting times I must admit.

Great stuff Charlie.
Have you bought all the kit for your new system yet?

Yes I have always appreciated that Joel and BYAP are not overly strict with their intervention.

And I'm Farming, Poo is a good subject and the proper utilization of such poo is very important in farming.

And if one hijacks into some more medieval stuff, well, what to do with poo was a big part of life back then too.

Oh, I think I overworked the cook. He worked to hard on his own on Tuesday doing Fencing and then the weather changed and we had to unload freight in the rain yesterday (over a ton of stuff showed up and the bigger pallet got unloaded and left at the road and had to be loaded on the pickup bag by bag to get brought up to the barn.) Now the cook is hurting and doesn't feel like doing anything today. The rain yesterday was the head of a cool front so it is now damp and chilly so I don't think any media is gonna be rinsed to place in grow beds today.

It was simple back then, find a bush, walk behind it, dig out a little hole, find your favorite leaf (you should be able to tell if it is poison oak,) do your business, fill the hole. Don't ask me what people did in the winter when all the leaves have fallen...

there is a reason that in some cultures you only eat with one hand... the other is used for wiping.

(perhaps more important in arid regions where water for washing is a luxury.)

And the only other option is sand...

Still like that in parts of rural Thailand and they don't shake hands either,there is a big push in Thailand to replace hole in the floor squat toilets with sit me downs,in many toilets you go in there are foot prints on the toilet seat.

I know in many parts of Asia the facilities consist of a hole in the floor with "foot prints" to show people where to put their feet to squat and hit the hole.

Now using the sawdust bucket toilet method has the benefit of not needing to squat to go and by covering your deposit with some sawdust, you avoid the stink.

You learn something new every day.

Actually that was only in the rural areas. In the towns they developed special shoes to walk through the filth.

Around that time they started using mirrored balls to mark off the cesspool areas too...

Disco balls and funky wading shoes aside.

We got some clay balls installed in one grow bed. Decided the center row of new grow beds will get to test out some different media so I can compare what I think of it.

Let me go get some pictures so I can post.

Ooh (or should I say Eew ), the beginings of platform heels .

1/2" brown river rock, takes 1.25 ton to make 1 cubic yard so 1 ton won't even fill two of these beds (about 100 gallons or around 13 cubic feet.)


Took about 8, 45 liter bags of Plantit to fill this bed


1/2" Stalite, 1 ton of stalite makes 1.33 cubic yards. I can get the stalite by the truck load here provided I can find some one with a dump truck or trailer to haul it for me when I need it.

Most of these beds will get filled with Stalite but I'm still open to maybe trying another media in the middle row of beds if the offer becomes available before we fill the rest with Stalite.
(Grow Stones had been talking about having me do some more testing for them but it sounds like they may be too busy with other projects this season so that probably won't happen for this project.)