Re: Commercial Aquaponics Why is it not pervasive?
Originally Posted by urbanfarmer
Originally Posted by Neil H
I live in South Africa at the moment
What are your ideas for aquaponics?
was waiting for that Q
your points on a system designed for the local environment and capital available are valid
but what if we as a community designed what we think is a good commercial AP system ....... there is vast experience in this forum ... could be fun .... disclaimers would be very NB though
its a funny thing AP we think it is this new technology and a wonder method for farming and dont really want to talk about commercial plans and operations because we think it is this trump card .... so we work in isolation .... but at the end of the day the more commercial AP projects there are the better our understanding the more this will be main stream .....
Re: Commercial Aquaponics Why is it not pervasive?
Originally Posted by urbanfarmer
Okay! Where do you want to start?
Assumptions
Location:
Where are we... i.e. climate .... i only know moderate sub tropics climate well.... but we could do two systems.... one for a moderate env and one for a cold climate??
over 100 views, is anyone else going to participate??
Re: Commercial Aquaponics Why is it not pervasive?
Hi Neil, welcome to the forum....
Originally Posted by Neil H
over 100 views, is anyone else going to participate??
Sorry Neil, In the AP forums, we quite often see the 'new guys' come on board, all excited and immediately wanting to go commercial.
There's nothing wrong with that, a good percentage of us here and at other sites have had that 'bug'.
Answering the same questions and talking about the same topic, over and over again...well, it's not that we don't enjoy it, but....
I'll try to post my thoughts soon, right now I should already be getting ready to go to work at the farm.
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Re: Commercial Aquaponics Why is it not pervasive?
If you have time to read through this, you might get a feel for some of the "problems" that people face going "commercial": http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/11665
Re: Commercial Aquaponics Why is it not pervasive?
I am definitely not a fan of publicly funded bailouts. I hope they come out of all this with a better understanding of how to make it work. That would benefit all of us. I don't like seeing fish and Benjamins wasted.
Re: Commercial Aquaponics Why is it not pervasive?
Originally Posted by urbanfarmer
Aquaponics, she is a harsh mistress indeed.
She sure can be...just getting home from my mistress.
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