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.


Tuesday 9 October 2018

Reuse & recycle

Making compost is going to be a huge part of what we do to provide the material we need for our raised beds and growing vegetables via conventional methods.

This time of year cutting back and removing plants that have grown all they can is a common activity. Trimming back the Swiss chard produces a lot of leaf and this needs a home.


Melv has spent the last couple of days making a new compost heap, complete with drop boards, all from recycled materials, and already it has been put to good use.



All our salad leaves...





and watercress are grown in trays and are sold as living plants which are harvested by the customer as needed.




Once harvested by the customers, the trays are returned as cropped trays, with the compost left in.

 
These used trays we then add to the compost heat, wash the trays and fill again...
 
 
 
 
 
This means that our compost goes full cycle, as we reuse all the growing media we use.

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