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.


Saturday, 3 April 2021

One for each broody bantam

It has been an exciting and eventful day on the hatching front. It started when one of our new additions began to find its feet and started to explore - now called Mr Benn, after the children's adventurer from the '70's.

Just time for a quick cuddle before mum gets worried
One by one they started to appear...
By lunchtime, two of the 3 broody bantams eggs had successfully hatched out 3 out of the 4 eggs.

Unfortunately the middle hen had not been so lucky, but we still have our fingers crossed that they will!

Lessons in how to feed were soon to follow



It soon became a family affair, heads down for a full house...

By the end of the day, after a few rather alarming spats and tussles to establish the pecking order, they all had a chick each and settled down for the night!

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