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.


Friday, 8 November 2019

Out into the big wide world

A beautiful day and just past their 3 month birthday it was time for our young bantams to spread their wings.


We opened the gate and the dedicated mother led them out to join the rest of the flock, we watched on nervously, realising that many of our birds were over 50 times bigger than the young chicks.

They soon found their feet under the watchful eye of Carpet.


And they were soon mixing with the other birds, both Bluebells and Lohmans alike

and even visited the feeders in the barn and were well received, with no confrontation.

A very successful first outing in the big wide world, the young family returned to their pen and proudly gathered together on top of the water pump contented - Melv and I were so pleased and very, very relieved!!


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