ECOLIFE’s Eco-Cycle Aquaponics kit cleans your aquarium, grows fresh herbs We all love to have a clean aquarium with a few fish inside it, but cleaning an aquarium, once algae starts to grow using nitrogenous compounds present in an unmaintained aquarium, is a difficult job. Folks over at ECOLIFE Foundation are now trying to couple two of our favorite activities, fish farming and growing fresh herbs, with a new aquaponics kit for aquariums, that uses fish waste and dirty water to grow fresh herbs while cleaning up the water for the aquarium. Dubbed the ECO-Cycle Aquaponics Kit, the system is designed to be installed on top of a standard 20-gallong aquarium. It comes with a submersible pump that brings in dirty water from the aquarium to a prefilter section where a rinsable and reusable sponge catches all solid waste and then a bio-filter brick performs some biological filtration. After that water is made to enter the grow tray where 13 net pots containing herbs of your choice are present.
Garden Pool | A nonprofit organization to develop and teach sustainable ways to grow food. 'First to Market' Aquaponics System Receives Patent Pending Status for Portable Farms™ Aquaponics San Diego, California (MMD Newswire) January 29, 2013 -- On January 7, 2013, Colle and Phyllis Davis and Phil Estes received Patent Pending Status for their Portable Farms Aquaponics Systems' Modular Aquaponics System. This patent pending status is the culmination of 42 years of work in the field of aquaponics. This newly patented aquaponics system offers a revolutionary new standardized modular aquaponics system that can be shipped anywhere in the world and assembled on site by local workers. After installation, this aquaponics system grows harvestable greens within forty days in any climate and produces food year round. The Portable Farms™ Aquaponics System grows: • Organic greens (all forms of lettuces, greens and herbs) • Blooming plants (tomatoes, all variety of peppers, cucumbers, beans, zucchini, certain squashes, broccoli, etc.) • Farm-raised tilapia fish. This system requires no pesticides or insecticides. Yearly Production from Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems Contact:
De Wereld Draait Door De twee grote culinaire specialisten Robert Kranenborg en Joris Bijdendijk zullen zich vandaag wagen aan 'Coulibiac'. Coulibiac is een zalmpastei uit de Russische keuken vaak met rijst of andere graansoorten, eieren en soms uien, paddenstoelen en dille. Het gerecht was in de eerste jaren van de 20e eeuw zó populair dat de beroemde chef Auguste Escoffier het opnam in zijn standaardwerk “The complete Guide to the Art of Modern Cooking”. Hoofdingrediënten: • zalm• half-zachtgekookte eieren• gekookte sint-jansrogge• flensjes• snijbiet• brioche• mierikswortelsaus Briochedeeg:• 1 kg bloem• 35 kristalsuiker• 35 verse gist• 6 eieren• 250 gr zachte boter• 250 gr melk• 25 gram zout Bereiding:Deeg maken ‘zoals het hoort’. Flensbeslag160 gram ei40 gram melk50 gram bloem10 gram maïzena Bereiding: Alles mengen en een uurtje laten staan. Eieren4 grote eieren koken tot de dooier net niet meer loopt (in kokend water 7 minuten en 30 seconden voor een groot ei).
WeFeedUs announces PA-based commercial aquaponics facility Home / Scale Up / WeFeedUs announces PA-based commercial aquaponics facility Scale Up January 22, 2013AlgaeIndustryMagazine.com arlisle, Pennsylvania-based WeFeedUs, a sustainable resource management company developing a commercial scale sustainable operation integrating the production of produce, fish, algae and renewable energy, has announced it has constructed a commercial aquaponics facility. The proprietary eco-process maximizes the utilization of nutrients, waste and other important natural components to promote the robust growth of sustainable produce, aquaculture, algae, and other co-products. The initial production facility co-located at the company’s headquarters occupies 3.5 acres of existing greenhouse structures, offices and agricultural storage, atop the second largest underground lake in Pennsylvania. The company is finalizing off-take agreements with several US Colleges that have world-class sustainability programs. More Like This… From The A.I.M.
Emerald - Heirloom, Untreated, Open Pollinated, Vegetable Seeds - Sustainable Seed Company Emerald Okra (56 days) Introduced by Campbell's Soup If I remember correctly this was a Cajun cook's dream. My granny hailed from the great state of Louisiana and many a time I remember smelling fried okra wafting from the kitchen during a fish fry. Granny always picked 3-4" okra to cut up, be dipped in corn meal and fried to perfection in the cast iron skillet I now have. You guessed it! Recommended by the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. The Texas Cooperative Extension at Texas A&M recommends this variety for Texas! For those of you in the South where I come from you will have no problem growing okra, but if like me you now find yourself in an area with cool summers like the Pacific Northwest growing okra can be a tricky business.
Design Concepts | Arkfab | Green Phoenix Concpetual Design Arkfab's concepetual design is to use an integrated saprophytic aquaponics agricultural system for the production of gourmet mushrooms, greens and fish in a net zero energy and water urban farm facility. More Information about Arkfab's Living Machine Design Iteration Version 1 : Hoop House DesignVersion 2 : Shipping Container Design
Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed Catalogue Housing | FarmWorks The residential facility, St. Louis Stamping Lofts, is designed for the ex-offender and homeless population in a strategic effort to end the cycle of crime and homelessness. The fully ADA-compliant facility consists of 56 studio apartments in a four-story 36,500 square foot historic building and will feature amenities such as community space, laundry room, off-street parking, bicycle rental, security cameras, 24-hour front desk attendant, and secure building access. Local social services agency, St. Like this: Like Loading... Gardens: the new yuzu | James Wong Walk into any garden centre and you’ll find rows of little lemon, orange and lime trees lined up for sale. But the best citrus of all is trickier to track down, and I can’t understand why. The yuzu is an uber-fragrant citrus from Japan. Its fruity zest and bracingly tart juice is a result of its mixed parentage – a natural cross between a mandarin orange and the wild Ichang lemon. With the fruit’s newfound popularity among western celebrity chefs for its floral aroma, tiny bottles of yuzu juice now sell for nearly a fiver in UK supermarkets. Fresh yuzu are also far harder to find than other citrus fruits. They are also easy to grow. If you fancy the outdoor gamble, plant your yuzu against a sunny south-facing wall in early summer, ideally in well-drained soil that is on the acidic side. So: rarer and more interestingly flavoured fruits that are easy to grow.
Aquaponics | Locavore del Mundo Aquaponics. When I first started working with an aquaponics system in 2006, most people would look at me cross-eyed when I told them what I was doing. And while I still get that look at times, aquaponics is moving from the obscure shadows to bask in the limelight…well, the limelight of foodies and sustainable farmers. But a limelight nonetheless. It is one solution to growing food in a closed-loop system, but by no means the only system. Aquaponics grows plants in a soil-less medium, using effluent from fish tanks to fertilize the plants. Looking over the conical settling tank. The material inputs of an aquaponics system include the fish (at fingerling size), fish feed, seeds and substrate to germinate the seeds and support the roots of the plants, water, and energy to run the water pumps and air blowers. One of the simplicities of this seemingly complex process is that the water can flow from high to low, requiring the need of just one pump for an entire aquaponics system.
Moringa oleifera - The miracle tree. MoringaFacts.net open source garden automation project What is GardenBot? GardenBot is an open source garden monitoring system. This site is a collection of tutorials for how to build things (like a soil moisture sensor), software for running GardenBot, resources, links, and more. To get started, you will want to browse the How-To section to see what is required to build the various modules. The ultimate goal of the GardenBot project is to be a complete garden monitoring and automation system. GardenBot is currently a work in progress, and we are always looking for volunteers -- please contact me if you'd like to help. Just so you know, there are several (many) other garden automation projects out there on the web. Is GardenBot a robot? The word robot usually is used for machines that move about. Who came up with this? I did... er, I mean hi. I discovered Arduino, and immediately became engrossed. Anyway, considering my interests, I thought "gee, it sure would be neat to use the Arduino board to control the watering in the garden".