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Raised beds
recurve shooter:
one of my grandpas grows tomatoes, mellons, greens, turnips, blue berrys, black berrys, oranges, satsumas, ect. along with raising worms, quails, and rabbits. so he uses worm castings, quail and rabit poo for his, and by the end of the growing season he invites people over for coffee just so he can weasle them into takeing some of it off his hands so he dont have to plow everything under lol, so it must work. ;D
Justin Snyder:
I am currently setting up an aquaponics tank. It works like hydroponics, but the vegtables float on the water, and you put talapia or some other fish in the tank to provide circulation and nutrient, and you can eat the fish.
aero86:
oh, awesome thread. i just built a little raise bed out of some scrap would from my girlfriends work. im gonna try not to kill these strawberries
Badger:
Justin, do the plants rood right in the water? I have always been curious about this. Tilapia are facinating fish when viewed as a farm raised fish. Fertilizer run off from farms creates massive algae in creeks and the Tilapia thrive on the algae. They basicaly convert sunlight to protein. In 1982 I was drawing up plans for a tilapia farm in Imperial valley, which is a desert farming valley that uses water from the Colorado river. All the canals and irrigation ditches are loaded with tilapia. In 1984 I sent a paper off to the dept of agriculure on this, in 1990 six years later I got a letter from chiquita bannana company asking me if I would be interested in interviewing for a job with them they were going to use ground up bannana peels to feed Tilapia in the imperial valley on a super modern temp controlled fish farm. I think they were successful with this but never really followed up. I always wondered if my paper was any influence on this farm. Steve
Justin Snyder:
There are several types of system. You can use styrofoam to float plants like lettuce or use grow medium and pump the water like a hydroponic system. As Im sure you know, talatia grow from egg to full size in 10 months so it makes quick protien.
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