Food Safety Certification For Aquaponics
Food Safety Certification, also known as the FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act, a new Federal law), which just went into effect on October 31st, 2015, is an inspection and certification program [Read more…]
Property Selection And Approval Process For Organic Aquaponic Farms
Property Selection And Approval Process For Organic Aquaponic Farms:
Why are you telling us this? Can’t we just buy a farm and get going? NO, DON’T DO IT! Here’s why: [Read more…]
What Doesn’t Work, #2
What Doesn’t Work, Part 2:
Here’s an additional list of system components, techniques, and ideas for systems that we know don’t work, OR can have [Read more…]
Selecting The Right Aquaponics Technology To Use
Selecting The Right Aquaponics Technology To Use For Commercial-Scale Aquaponics
If you want to be successful in commercial aquaponics, you MUST employ an aquaponics technology that is proven to be profitable. What’s that mean? [Read more…]
The Production Timeline And Getting Off The Ground
The Production Timeline And Getting Off The Ground
If you are planning a commercial aquaponics operation, one of the most important things to plan is your production timeline. You don’t just plant out a 6,000 square foot aquaponics system one week [Read more…]
Doing Your Test Grow
Doing Your Test Grows, or “How Do I Know What To Grow?”
You can’t make money with aquaponics if you grow the wrong things. Not everything will earn you the same return, and guessing is deadly. Especially guessing [Read more…]
Advertising, Marketing, And Promotion
Advertising, Marketing, And Promotion
The Importance of A Website
Many people will tell you that a website is of utmost importance to your new aquaponics business. That might be true if [Read more…]
Using Sensors, Electronic Regulating Equipment, and Automatic Controls For Aquaponic Systems:
Using Sensors, Electronic Regulating Equipment, and Automatic Controls For Aquaponic Systems:
We often get proposals for developing sensors and associated “control systems” for aquaponics in our email and through our FaceBook accounts. I have some comments [Read more…]
Pros And Cons Of The Different Ways To Sell:
Pros And Cons Of The Different Ways To Sell:
How To Drive Success: Investigate all the possible ways to sell, then make an objective choice that takes into account the money you’ll get as well as your “style” of doing business. [Read more…]
Value-Added Processing
Value-Added Processing
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…]
Harvesting Tips And Tricks
Harvesting Tips And Tricks
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…]
High Density Planting Strategies And Specialized Techniques For All Greens Crops
Planting Strategies And Specialized Techniques For Greens Crops
It took us an embarrassingly long time to notice that tiny seedlings have completely different space requirements than fully-grown plants, and to figure out how to make this fact useful [Read more…]
What Doesn’t Work For Germination And Sprouting
What Doesn’t Work For Germination And Sprouting
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…]
Sprouting Table System In Aquaponics’ Side Flow
Sprouting Table System In Aquaponics’ Side Flow
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…]
Germination And Seed Testing
Germination And Seed Testing
Seeds don’t all germinate, and sometimes they don’t germinate at all. Let us explain: [Read more…]