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, 29 May 2020

Positive planting

After the recent challenging contamination event and a visit from the biologist of the chemical company confirming it was the herbicide that we suspected and taking material away for laboratory testing - it was time to move on. As a result recent days have been spent on positive planting...
Plants happy to sit in contaminated muck - like Agretti took pride of place in the tunnel.

We filled the new cabbage tunnel with collards, black cabbage, swiss chard and kaibroc, over 100 plants - lovely.
Over 40 dwarf bean plans took pride of place in an unmanured bed 
Over 150 squash plants took up pride of place in the bed previously prepared for the runner beans 
Courgettes and cucumbers have been planted in known material in make shift containers outside, but adjacent to the tunnel so that they benefit from the warm air coming from the ventilation sections at the base of the sides.
Over 120 celeriac take their new home in a well prepared outside bed, a vegetable that needs loads of watering to develop a good fleshy root, covered in plastic to help with moisture retention. Originally grown for the Sheppey Inn and Bocabar, now to be ready for the roast dinners for all our Godney villagers.
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