Godney Aquaponics


Godney Aquaponics
In the village of Godney, with the beautiful back drop of the Glastonbury Tor, Melv and Sal are embarking on a new venture. Fed up with the poor quality of veg in the shops, they have the ambition to set up an aquaponics system to provide fresh vegetables and salad crops for the village, and with a little help from their hens a supply of fresh free range eggs too.


What is Aquaponics??


What is Aquaponics??
Aquaponics is a sustainable method of producing quality food with minimal external inputs. It is a system that combines conventional aquaculture (e.g. fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. Water from the aquaculture system is fed to the hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down and are utilised by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then re-circulated back to the aquaculture system.


Thursday, 28 September 2017

Keeping the girls safe

Our new hens are going to be as free range as possible and we are certainly not short of space - but we need to keep them as safe as possible. So we ear marked a part of the land adjacent to the barn which we would dedicate to the hens that could be predator proofed. Not an easy task, the job of erecting a 6 foot fence began.



The first task is the installation of the posts, both for the corners as straining posts and then the small intermediates. The corner posts needed to be concreted in - as we would be straining the wire off these - Matt came to give us a hand and a muck truck full of concrete was on its way...


Next it is the installation of the top hanging wire and the netting.
 

This is followed by the bottom and middle wire to keep the netting tight, then the most important 5 strands of electric - 4 at the top and 1 at the bottom - Fort Knox!! 


Good job all round - fingers crossed it does the trick
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