Tag: aquaponics systems

Aquaponics and the Wonderful Worm
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 [...]
Posted: October 10th, 2011 under Blog, Growing, The Aquaponic Source.
Tags: aquaponic, aquaponic gardening, aquaponics, aquaponics system, aquaponics systems, aquaponics worms, murray hallam worms, pythium
Comments: 4

Aquaponics Systems: Credit Where Credit is Due
A very interesting discussion took place in the Aquaponic Gardening Community last week. It was titled “Credit to Other Aquapons” and was started by Eric Warwick. He asked “As aquaponics grows ever more commercialized with the additions of kits, how will we keep ourselves from stealing other peoples’ ideas?” The thread began by exploring the practicality of [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2011 under Blog, Inspirations, The AP Life.
Tags: aquaponic, aquaponic gardening, Aquaponic Gardening Community, aquaponic system, aquaponics, aquaponics forum, aquaponics system, aquaponics systems, CHOP2, murray hallam, Practical Aquaponics
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DIY Aquaponics vs. Kit Aquaponics
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, [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2011 under Blog, Growing, The AP Life, The Aquaponic Source.
Tags: aquaponic, aquaponic gardening, aquaponic kits, aquaponic system, aquaponics, aquaponics DIY, aquaponics how to, aquaponics system, aquaponics systems, backyard aquaponics, diy aquaponics, murray hallam
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Aquaponics Cycling and the Case of the Missing Ammonia
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 [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2011 under Blog, Growing, The Aquaponic Source.
Tags: ammonia in aquaponics, aquaponic, aquaponic gardening, aquaponics, aquaponics cycling, aquaponics systems, cycling kit, dr. wilson lennard
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Aquaponics and Biomimicry
In the wine-infused post-dinner conversation with an out of town house guest this week, a rather profound statement was made. Our guest said “we need to quiet our cleverness” in response to some branch of our conversation. “Wow…that is quite an interesting thing to say” was my response, or at least that is how I [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2011 under Blog, Inspirations, Sustainability.
Tags: aquaponic, aquaponic gardening, aquaponic systems, aquaponics, aquaponics system, aquaponics systems, biomimicry, Janine Benyus
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