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.


Thursday, 3 October 2019

A Ray of Sunshine

As we watch the weather turn, zip up our overalls and on days like today reach for our waterproofs, there is something about harvesting chillies that gives you a welcome warm feeling inside.


Relative to a number of other vegetables that we grow in the polytunnel, chillies come to fruition a little later and their vibrant colour are a welcome sight on an autumn day when the light levels are much reduced.

We now have quite a nice selection, including Hot Lemon, Apache, Scotch Bonnet and Freshno, which provide a range of tastes and degrees of heat  suitable for a number of different dishes. So far our favourite has to be the yellow scotch bonnet, which is sweet, hot and very flavoursome, followed very closely behind by the citrus yellow of the hot lemon - delicious.

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