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.


Sunday, 23 June 2019

Colours of the rainbow - an inspiration

There are obvious colourful vegetables such as an old favourite rainbow chard


and of course rainbow carrots


together with the old fruity favourites such as scarlet red coloured strawberries


But this year we have been growing something that little bit different, like All Gold raspberries, which has a unique colour and superb flavour, producing large, golden yellow fruits, with a taste that is even more exquisite than its red-fruited sisters! 

Three different types of beetroot



 Which includes a stripy one - Candy Stripe / Chioggia which are sweeter than traditional beets with beautiful pink and white stripes.

But at the moment the stars of the show has to be the cauliflowers

Helped by recent rainfall, they are simply the best
and better...

Almost too good to eat!
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