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Greenhouse Plastic Take 2!
Pulling the greenhouse plastic tight over the frame. On this greenhouse we were attaching the plastic with lathing, another option is channel lock using wiggle wire. It is best to pull the plastic...
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Raising Aquaculture Tanks
The concrete blocks were delivered last Thursday and were installed on Monday. Johnny and Greg did a great job and they look fantastic! By lifting up the tanks I aim to prevent overflow and to take...
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Workparty
You guys were amazing!We finished attaching the greenhouse plastic! It is trimmed up and looking sharp. I started installing the siphon piping connecting the two aquaculture tanks. We had an amazing...
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Water’s moving
Thank you to everyone that came out and helped during the past few months and at last weeks work party. Couldn’t have done it without you! Finally water is in, pumps and aerators are on....
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Finally heater is installed and I have approval from the lab committee for fish, one more hurdle and we will be all set to put fish in. Heater is turned on, im curious what the temp will be in the...
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Progression of Plants
Progression of mint cuttings to plants in 4 weeks in the TESC aquaponics system.
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Turn Key Aquaponics LLC
This was an interesting small setup built as a demo piece for high altitude cold climate aquaponics projects. This system from Turn Key Aquaponics was on the Aquaponics Association tour in Denver...
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Aquaponics layout spring 2013
Current aquaponics setup at the Evergreen State College These are two 300 gallon stock tanks. One of these tanks has a degasser, passive aeration system and the heater. The other tank is home to the...
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Fishless cycling
I started cycling for this system by using powdered ammonia. It worked pretty well. I wanted to share what my test kit looked like over the month. This is what it started out looking like. Although...
View ArticleTour de Tanks
I will be giving tours of my system April15th-18th 1pm to 3pm come down and check out the system in person!
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Spring work party!
Saturday was sunny and beautiful. Many great volunteers showed up to lend a hand. We got a tremendous amount done, thanks so much!!! Never to early to learn how to grow food! New barrels installed now...
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Vertical Airlift
Pretty simple airlift, just a tiny air tube moving water over 12ft! This is the plan for the next phase of construction! Vertical air lift up to grow tubes and NFT system. What do you think of the...
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Little helpers
Released about a hundred lady bugs into the greenhouse about a month ago, to help control the aphids. I was hoping some would stay in the greenhouse, mate and lay eggs. Look! These are lady bug larvae!...
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Little helpers
Released about a hundred lady bugs into the greenhouse about a month ago, to help control the aphids. I was hoping some would stay in the greenhouse, mate and lay eggs. Look! These are lady bug...
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THE best strawberry….
This is seriously the best strawberry I have eaten all season. Which is really saying something since we harvested gallons from our home garden this year. It was huge, juicy super sweet. This berry...
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Mmmm Spicy Flowers!
It's crazy how a little plant like the one above can turn into the giant mass below. They are taking over the raft tank, we can't harvest them fast enough!!! These edible flowers make a great and...
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July plant update
Here we are at the beginning of July and things are growing great in the greenhouse. I just wanted to share a few of these photos with you! Cauliflower is doing great, this was one plant I wasn't sure...
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What’s powering the system?
Well in this system the workhorses are the fish! The system is home to 33 koi, 16 shubumkins, 2 large goldfish and two very large Plecos rescued from fish tanks they had out grown. They have all grown...
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