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 [...]

The week that we launched our Bathtub Aquaponics Kit Alan took a phone call from a woman in the San Francisco area.  She told him about her enthusiasm for aquaponics and that she was especially excited about creating an aquaponics system in her backyard using recycled bathtubs.  She told him how she got the bathtubs, [...]

The mystery started with a late Friday phone call.  A customer who had purchased one of our new Cycling Kits had added ammonia into his system, but nothing registered on his ammonia test.  So he added more and retested.  Still nothing.  After repeating this several more times, he dumped in the entire bag of powdered [...]

On April 1st I gave a presentation at the Progressive Gardening Trade Association annual conference titled “Secrets to Selling Aquaponics”.  The audience was primarily owners and managers of hydroponic stores. When I was preparing and starting to think about the notion of “selling” aquaponics, the first thoughts in my business school-trained brain were about target [...]

Kellen and Sarah Wessenbach are the owners of White Brook Tilapia Farm, are extremely knowledgeable about all aspects of tilapia rearing (and other fish types), and are themselves aquaponic gardeners.  When I saw a response Kellen gave to a question on Murray Hallam’s forum about how to manage fry population explosions in tanks with male [...]