This is the way to make the most money from your vegetable produce. In most states, you are allowed to cut once in the field then cut again and package in a certified processing facility, sometimes referred to as a “certified kitchen”. [Read more…]
This kind of harvesting and packing is called “one cut in the field” because your state laws only allow you to cut the vegetable and remove bad leaves before putting it in a box or bag; no cutting of leaves, mixing vegetables, or washing them is allowed without a certified processing facility to do it in. [Read more…]
1. First, you can accidentally kill your seeds with a strong enough application of cold, heat, moisture, or a combination of these three. This can happen at home if you leave the seeds [Read more…]
For our smaller backyard systems, we use a waterproof 4-foot by 8-foot sprouting table for germinating and growing out the sprouts. A sprouting table is a simple [Read more…]
Seeds don’t all germinate, and sometimes they don’t germinate at all. Let us explain: [Read more…]
We do this “what-if” exercise with the class participants in our 5-day live Commercial Aquaponic and Solar Greenhouse Trainings: “Imagine that when you go home, you’ll have 50,000 square feet of greenhouse aquaponic systems, all ready to go. [Read more…]
There’s a lot of nonsense about needing “filters and biofilters” in your aquaponics system coming from people who simply don’t understand how and why these systems work. [Read more…]
If you want to build a system that is smaller or larger than ones in this manual, simply multiply the amounts and system numbers up or down proportionately, remembering that [Read more…]
The Aquatic Eco Systems/Pentair Aquatics catalog gives a great example of a “cheap” $259 water pump that only uses $813 more of electricity per year than the “expensive” $479 pump. So, be on the lookout [Read more…]
How to determine if your troughs need additional airstones: You can determine if you need aeration in your troughs by measuring the DO going into the trough, and comparing it to the DO going out, but the system must have mature plants [Read more…]
If you don’t feel like reading this whole post, and just “want the facts”, here they are: If the water exiting your fish tank has a DO of 5 or above, you’re good. If the water exiting your troughs has a DO of 4 or above,
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This is a looong post; we couldn’t figure out any sensible way to divide it into separate posts. It covers High Density aquaponics systems, which are systems that are designed to raise a maximum amount of fish. [Read more…]