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 21 September 2017

Melv and Sal's new venture has started...

The purchase of Myrtle Barn and adjacent land has given Melv and Sal the opportunity to follow their passions for being innovative, growing fresh food, and of course keeping chickens. But there is lots to do to turn this vision into a reality and the starting point is a big clean up!


Having a foot print of over 500 square metres the barn is an excellent size, but this also means that there is lots to do, inside and outside, both to have a blitzing clean up, but also to deal with any structural stuff so that it is fit for purpose.


There was internal and external structural stuff, clearing old concrete feeders, repairing the roof, clearing the gutters and tidying up the outside just to list a few.


With a bit of help from a hired in mini digger, it didn't take long to clear a significant space inside, which we had eared marked for the new chicken coup.


The outside was more cosmetic and for aesthetic purposes really and we decided that the best solution for covering the severe corrugated iron exterior was wooden cladding and my didn't it look smart.


And this is just the start...

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