Hello guys, I am knee deep in building a greenhouse aquaponics system
2000 gallons of water
Blue tilapia, already have breeding colony in basement and 1000's of fry
12 x 24 greenhouse with fish tanks heated from my wood burning furnace.
Large bioreactor, and clarifier to filter heavy stocking density.
Plumbing is complete, and tank is recirculating, and being fed ammonia chloride for cycling right now.
Next step is to build grow beds
I will upload some pics as soon as I can get my wife to resize them small enough that the forum will accept them.
A little about myself. My family produces all of our own meat, except for fish, so this is the next logical step on our way towards self sufficiency. We raise Guinea hogs for pork, chicken (both meat birds, and layers) Nigerian dwarf dairy goats, for meat and milk, Muscovy ducks for meat, have a recently dug 1/4 acre pond for food and recreation, and water for irrigation, 75 head of Dexter, and Australian lowline cattle for beef, and grassfed beef sales. The cattle are on leased land, everything else happens on our 2.5 acre homestead. 4000 square foot garden.
I will have some questions for those of you in the know about growbeds in the next few days. Thanks for all of the great information so far, I have read the forum top to bottom.