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, 18 August 2019

The new family are doing well

Carpet continues to be the attentive mother and as a result the new brood are doing well and growing significantly each day.


Mum encourages the youngsters to take the small pieces of corn from the main feeder and in doing so the littluns show off their new wing feathers. Heavily patterned and becoming quite defined we watch and wait to see how their plumage develops.

 The weather has been a little inclement and Carpet has made sure that the chicks are not exposed to too much, despite their increase in size, she encourages them to stay underneath her.


However that said, although they have grown, when Melv gathers one up in his hands it makes you realise, they are still really tiny...



and very, very cute!!
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