I first wrote about Fishless Cycling for aquaponics systems in November, 2010 based on research I had done in cichlid raising, and since then it has become a generally accepted way to start up an aquaponics system.  However, over the past year and a half we have improved the technique.   I’d like to share our [...]

I’m on a Frontier Airlines flight from Tampa,FL to Denver, exhausted but exhilarated.  Yesterday we concluded the first two sessions of the Green Acres Aquaponic Farming Complete Course.  All the organization, marketing, registrations, presentation writing, travel, and a thousand other tasks are done! We have been planning this since just after the Aquaponics Association conference [...]

At last September’s Mother Earth News Fair I had the good fortune of meeting and sharing a condo with author, Deborah Niemann, and her husband.  They drove to Pennsylvania from Illinios, and brought with them homemade goat cheese and stories of life on their thriving homestead.  I asked Deborah if she would write a post for [...]

This past Monday I returned home from a 10 day trip through Japan with my son.  It was a high school graduation gift for him (in part to exercise his four years of Japanese language classes) and a birthday present for me (one of those big deal birthdays that end in a zero.  Can you [...]

This is a guest blog post written by Gina Cavaliero,  of Green Acre Organics.  What follows are Gina’s reflections on how much their commercial systems have expanded in the past year and a half, and how far they have come from the poor training they originally received to all that they have learned and are [...]