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.


Tuesday 6 October 2020

Eggcellent

Well, not that I have been counting - but yesterday was a day to treasure - the first egg from our pullets - a very welcome addition to our currently limited egg supply.
Not quite the size of a bantam egg - yet - they are a beautiful brown and have a reddish tinge and would bring a smile to anyone's face.

In addition to the thrill of a pullet egg our eggperience today was even more of a treat and left us speechless...

Who on earth or what on earth laid this whopper - my word, compared to the pullet and bantam eggs it is MASSIVE, but even next to an typical sized hen egg it is ginormous. The next eggciting thing will be what is inside, will it be a double yolker like the delightful pullets, or maybe been a triple???


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