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, 21 August 2019

Growing up with vegetables

The new family are doing well, although we have lost one of the chicks, the other 5 are growing fast. Now 2 weeks old they are becoming increasingly confident and a little more independent, and under the supervision of their mum they are also investigating new feeding opportunities, and being brought up in an horticultural business there is no shortage of these!!

Salad leaves are very popular with the adult birds and sparse tray of young leaves also went down well with the little ones.


The soft centres of the excess cucumbers and courgettes are currently proving most popular, the seeds are just the right size and the flesh soft and full of nutrition.

Tuck in my little friend there are plenty more to come and lots of new and tasty treats to follow...
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