Living in an equatorial metropolis of 8 million people and owning/operating a preschool in the midst of this concrete jungle made the prospects of maintaining an organic in ground garden difficult to say the least.
I had no intentions of giving up on my dream to not only use a garden to teach the water,nitrogen cycles and microcosm of earth's abundance but to also provide cooking classes, and organic vegetation to my junior champs. But, how in a limited space of full sun exposed concrete where the temps are exceeding 35c daily? The answer my steemians is aquaponics. Trouble was my 15 years of commercial farming experience where there are seasons offered very little knowledge on design,implementation, construction,maintenance, or even what plants and fish are suitable. To say I was a fish outta water, or in over my head was a gross understatement. But. I mustered on and was able to create this prodigious aquaponics system seen below with no input and very little manpower. Hell, I didn't even own a screwdriver as I'd only just moved to Malaysia a few months before.
I'm still learning and realising I would have done things a bit differently in hindsight but cest la vie right? Honestly, my main concerns at first were no mosquitoes and not killing any fish! I still have two beds not being used that are designed as DWC or deep water culture. Currently they are a guppy farm, the reason for this is a lack of funding to install the proper electric outlets needed to run this part of the system. But, never mind that, I will get it done asap.
I have 35 over a foot long Catfish and a few Patin that are creating the necessary 💩 poop to make all these plants flourish. They are as follows, chives, mustard greens,pak Choy, kangkung, red,green, and amaranth spinach, lettuce, dill, mint, okra, and eggplant. I also use the water to fertilise and feed my ground plants but that another post for another day. Thanks for spending some time hanging at the urban farm. Until next time keep it green!
These are my 2 hyydroton/washed gravel media aquaponic beds using cut IBC tanks.
Another angle of the lush vegetation
This is my sump tank I am using kangkung as a natural filter
The all mint mainstay grow bed 1 of4
This shows my 1000 litre fish hold that gravity feeds the 4 beds
A very recent harvest of pakchoy and mustard greens
The initial water flow test is a success
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Very inspiring! Thanks for sharing.
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I would love to Incorporate this sort of aquaponics into my future gardening endeavors. Great design and results!
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@biffybirdcam you won’t regret trying aquaponics I’d love to offer any assistance or answer any questions you might have. Thanks for the compliment and interest in sustainability!🌱🌏🌈
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Thx everyone ! I'm not going to allow being caught in the crossfire of a flagwar to take away from real world positive change that I'm seeing through this being the most well received post I've created yet.
I am here mostly for entertainment and to possibly help facilitate some NGO projects I'm involved with in a developing nation. Which I hope to venture into incorporation of aquaponics into the village areas as well as the urban centers.
If someone I refuse to even mention their name assumes flagging a post about sustainability, and feeding and educating children will have any purpose that benefits them they are sadly mistaken. I'm not getting involved with some guy on the internet that has nothing better to do than attack innocent bystanders because my post was resteemed by his mortal enemy.
Also it didn't work and if you need to be reminded how blockchain works you are only hurting yourself by taking such actions against me.
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Placing previous experience with the unfortunate flag war aside. I do think this is a brilliant project and what you are trying to acheive would be beneficial for future generations. Good luck in pushing this project forward.. Cheers. !tip 5
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Sorry, the tip is higher than your deposit.
You can check your deposit by sending 0.001 SBD to @tipu with memo: status
(the minimal tip is 0.1 SBD/STEEM)
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@bitrocker2020 I really appreciate your diplomacy, and your ability to cast aside the beef. I'm just going to move forward, but do feel I should apologize for the manner in which I spoke to you. While I'm new here I'm not new at the game of life and where I see injustice I act and if when I seek out assistance I am met with resistance,well you've seen how I react then. I took the sbd and immediately powered it up so I could afford to reply lol. I succeeded in maneuvering out of this storm, so far anyway by myself as I've done my entire life. So my pleas were more of a PSA or offering of awareness that if people claim to care about this community but don't care about the treatment of its innocent new members there is a major problem that makes the prices of crypto obsolete in the big picture. I hope we can both call a truce as I'm actually quite harmless unless provoked and provoked I was. Then ignored which will ignite my fire everytime. Perhaps we can all get along someday, but as u might can deduce I'm still terribly upset at the witness that caused this mess,never apologised, and then stole back his rewards on a post he resteemed,which demonstrates a clear inability to be a leader on the blockchain. Leadership requires responsibly dealing with adversity and open lines of bilateral communication. TQ I will definitely keep this vision of fresh food for all Malaysians alive and well.
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Thanks for the reply.. And I can imagine the immense frustration you are getting as a new user for being flagged.. However I do applaud your capabilities in moving forward and not be discouraged by it.
Looking forward in seeing more of your projects and do share it with us as I sincerely do want to learn more from you... Cheers and have a great week ahead.
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This is awesome. I can't wait to try it.
Thanks for posting.
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Awesome to see your aquaponics set up. Can’t wait to emulate it one day! Really cool stuff 😎
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@jackdub... great set up!!!!
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That's pretty cool man. Keep it up :)
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!tip 5
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@fulltimegeek removed all his upvotes on a post he resteemed bc @berniesanders flagged me and I called out the reality that this witness sees no problem putting plankton into the crossfire of his flagwar. How petty u r, plain pathetic, I figured u had no backbone and might need the few bucks more than I do. Now more people can see your fallacy my foe, what kind of witness steals my rewards back because I threaten his agenda? I'm just a Lil plankton but u r not threatened by me r you? Ur afraid of ur daddy and his wrath, so no, hell no I won't ever leave u alone. What an ingnoramus u must be to think I'd leave u alone after taking back ur rewards one day later. U have no integrity whatsoever. Where's the I'm sorry for getting u caught up in your shirt. Fuck you
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🎁 Hi @skramatters! You have received 5.0 SBD tip from @bitrocker2020!
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