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.


Wednesday, 7 November 2018

A lovely surprise at the end of the day

Today, just as it was getting dark, we were in for a lovely surprise...

Jerusalem artichokes - you either love 'em or hate 'em - well we love 'em and in the spring we planted 5 tubers just to provide a taste in the autumn.

However, after one of the driest summers ever we didn't hold a lot of hope out for them producing many tubers. Earlier in the week we had a little scrape around the roots and thought that our suspicions had been confirmed.

But then tonight just as the day was drawing in, we thought we would put our newly purchased fork to good use and dig up one of the tubers - to our amazement we pulled out the cluster of stalks to reveal the amazing sight below...


This equated to nearly 2.5kg of artichokes, from an original tuber the size of your thumb - now that is a fantastic return!!!!


Also one of the Chef's favourite at the Sheppey Inn - using at least 5kg a week - we bagged the first kg for him to try.

  
And of course we had some for tea - just to do a bit of quality control and make sure they were OK... and they were! ;0)


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