Anyone who has been married as long as Alan and I have (twenty one years in September) can probably relate to how downright freaky the synchronicity of your thoughts and words can be.  It ends up that Alan and I have both independently described in exactly the same way our thoughts about what today’s announcement [...]

A few weeks ago the high temperature here in Colorado dipped into the 40′s and there was snow on the nearby mountains.  It was time to harvest the tilapia in our outdoor aquaponics system.  We decided to film the experience from catching the fish to “dispatching” them to gutting and filleting.  Yes, actual tilapia were [...]

This past Friday Joanne (a fabulous lady who works part time on projects with us) and I spent an hour and a half picking through 75 liters of Hydroton that was in the last of the AquaBundance grow beds on our deck.  This was the second grow bed from our two-bed AquaBundance system development project [...]

Since last week’s blog post about the Aquaponics Association was rather long and heavy (you are probably saying “wow…that is an understatement!) I decided to flip over to the other side of the spectrum and be short, light, and visual. This summer we have been working on the development and testing of a second grow [...]

For the first time in my life I killed an animal in order to eat it.  And it was delicious. Those of you who have been following my aquaponic gardening journey know that I have struggled with the notion of harvesting the fish.  Even as a child when I used to go fishing with my [...]