Is the Garden Of Eden waiting for the ingenuity of man?
You may wonder what kind of question is that?
With the ingenuity and inventive genius of man, it isn’t a stretch of the imagination to foresee the day that the whole world will blossom at the hands of man and his care and husbandry of his home and garden farming.
The technology exists today and along with the design of the aquaponic system of raising fish and plants in one enclosed unit, but where the plants are separated from the fish. Only the water is in a closed loop and circulated from the fish tank to the plant tables and back again to the fish tank. The fantastic facts about this aquaponic system is that the garden production is 10 times higher than the regular farming and gardening practices. In addition to that the food produced by the aquaponic system is organic. Commercial fertilizers are not needed. Insect and pests are controlled because it is an enclosed system and not subject to them. If you used solar power to operate your circulation system, along with gravity, your cost of energy would be minimal. Another gigantic plus is that the aquaponic system uses 70 percent less water, because the water is circulated and used over and over. Water is added only because of evaporation and loss from removal of plants and fish. The water remains clean and is aerated and remains good for using.
Since I live in Florida I do have a concern about the water roaches that thrive in abundance here. With my current way of living here I have them under control. I use boric acid when I clean. I put it in the mop water and it works quite well. Then when I wash woodwork and walls inside the house I also use boric acid in the wash water. You must not use it in your plant water because it would kill the plants. I don’t know about the fish. I have used boric acid in my carport for about 4 years and I have 2 cats that live out there. They are not bothered by roaches, ticks, or mites. I do treat their ears about once a year just to prevent ear mites from ever bothering them. I use yellow dock to clean their ears. You can buy yellow dock from a health food store. I take one ounce of warm distilled water and mix one capsule of Yellow Dock and take a cotton swab and dip it into the solution and saturate their ears with it. The cats don’t like it, but you must get that down into their inner ear to get at the ear mites. It only takes one treatment. My cats are not bothered with ear mites, fleas or ticks. See my article on Roach Poison that is pet and people friendly at this link.
Returning back to the aquaponic system it would seem to me that it could be extended into other areas of agriculture and I’m sure the inventive genius of man, that will occur. I will try to search out all the free educational material that I can and relate it her in my blogs. As I come across excellent articles I will post them here.
With the development of aquaponic systems, education would have to accompany the building of private units to prevent pollution. There is a great need for much more scientific experimenting in order to develop this infant industry to a world wide application. By having central aquaponic operations, this would eliminate transportation of produce to market. The market would have their own centres for the people to come and buy and trade. It’s the people that will support the central markets, bringing their excess produce and trading for produce they want or need. I see it as becoming part of the culture. Actually that culture has not died out, it still exists, but mans government and taxation system has really put a lid on the free marketing enterprise. Here in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda, Florida, 25 years ago they had thriving farm market centres. They used to call them flea markets. The central city business men put them out of business by inflicting taxes on the people that were just trying to get by. The merchants couldn’t stand the heat in the kitchen and hated the operations of the free markets. With everyone having an aquaponic system, farm markets could once again begin to thrive. In addition, all the fresh food would be organic, if raised by using aquaponics. That’s a huge plus for aquaponics.
You talk about a Paradise and Garden Of Eden. If done right it will be a beautiful creation to behold. The nice thing about it is that you can take a modular approach in building your own aquaponics system. The market has available what look like chest units where the fish tank is the lower portion with the grow beds on top of the fish tanks. Two plant grow beds on the top with a separation to have access to the water and fish below. I’m just not sure of that type of design. Having the plants that near the water source would invite the water roaches.
This is going to be an industry worth watching and maybe getting involved for your self, for your good health, happiness, and prosperity.
To see a diagram of an aquaponics system in West Plains, Mo. Go to this link.
If you would like a detailed article of what you will need if you decide to build a small aquaponics system just for testing and using for yourself, go to the following link and read the article by Rebecca Nelson on How To Build a Mini-Aquaponic System. This article is very thorough in furnishing the cost, list of items and material and tools needed. Depending on your choice of items it will cost you from $23. to $126. Keep in mind that this is an actual aquaponics system that can be used for demostration and experimenting. What you will learn from doing this will be very valuable to you. Make your mistakes on a small scale so that it doesn’t cost you a lot of money.
Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky
You may wonder what kind of question is that?
With the ingenuity and inventive genius of man, it isn’t a stretch of the imagination to foresee the day that the whole world will blossom at the hands of man and his care and husbandry of his home and garden farming.
The technology exists today and along with the design of the aquaponic system of raising fish and plants in one enclosed unit, but where the plants are separated from the fish. Only the water is in a closed loop and circulated from the fish tank to the plant tables and back again to the fish tank. The fantastic facts about this aquaponic system is that the garden production is 10 times higher than the regular farming and gardening practices. In addition to that the food produced by the aquaponic system is organic. Commercial fertilizers are not needed. Insect and pests are controlled because it is an enclosed system and not subject to them. If you used solar power to operate your circulation system, along with gravity, your cost of energy would be minimal. Another gigantic plus is that the aquaponic system uses 70 percent less water, because the water is circulated and used over and over. Water is added only because of evaporation and loss from removal of plants and fish. The water remains clean and is aerated and remains good for using.
Since I live in Florida I do have a concern about the water roaches that thrive in abundance here. With my current way of living here I have them under control. I use boric acid when I clean. I put it in the mop water and it works quite well. Then when I wash woodwork and walls inside the house I also use boric acid in the wash water. You must not use it in your plant water because it would kill the plants. I don’t know about the fish. I have used boric acid in my carport for about 4 years and I have 2 cats that live out there. They are not bothered by roaches, ticks, or mites. I do treat their ears about once a year just to prevent ear mites from ever bothering them. I use yellow dock to clean their ears. You can buy yellow dock from a health food store. I take one ounce of warm distilled water and mix one capsule of Yellow Dock and take a cotton swab and dip it into the solution and saturate their ears with it. The cats don’t like it, but you must get that down into their inner ear to get at the ear mites. It only takes one treatment. My cats are not bothered with ear mites, fleas or ticks. See my article on Roach Poison that is pet and people friendly at this link.
Returning back to the aquaponic system it would seem to me that it could be extended into other areas of agriculture and I’m sure the inventive genius of man, that will occur. I will try to search out all the free educational material that I can and relate it her in my blogs. As I come across excellent articles I will post them here.
With the development of aquaponic systems, education would have to accompany the building of private units to prevent pollution. There is a great need for much more scientific experimenting in order to develop this infant industry to a world wide application. By having central aquaponic operations, this would eliminate transportation of produce to market. The market would have their own centres for the people to come and buy and trade. It’s the people that will support the central markets, bringing their excess produce and trading for produce they want or need. I see it as becoming part of the culture. Actually that culture has not died out, it still exists, but mans government and taxation system has really put a lid on the free marketing enterprise. Here in Port Charlotte and Punta Gorda, Florida, 25 years ago they had thriving farm market centres. They used to call them flea markets. The central city business men put them out of business by inflicting taxes on the people that were just trying to get by. The merchants couldn’t stand the heat in the kitchen and hated the operations of the free markets. With everyone having an aquaponic system, farm markets could once again begin to thrive. In addition, all the fresh food would be organic, if raised by using aquaponics. That’s a huge plus for aquaponics.
You talk about a Paradise and Garden Of Eden. If done right it will be a beautiful creation to behold. The nice thing about it is that you can take a modular approach in building your own aquaponics system. The market has available what look like chest units where the fish tank is the lower portion with the grow beds on top of the fish tanks. Two plant grow beds on the top with a separation to have access to the water and fish below. I’m just not sure of that type of design. Having the plants that near the water source would invite the water roaches.
This is going to be an industry worth watching and maybe getting involved for your self, for your good health, happiness, and prosperity.
To see a diagram of an aquaponics system in West Plains, Mo. Go to this link.
If you would like a detailed article of what you will need if you decide to build a small aquaponics system just for testing and using for yourself, go to the following link and read the article by Rebecca Nelson on How To Build a Mini-Aquaponic System. This article is very thorough in furnishing the cost, list of items and material and tools needed. Depending on your choice of items it will cost you from $23. to $126. Keep in mind that this is an actual aquaponics system that can be used for demostration and experimenting. What you will learn from doing this will be very valuable to you. Make your mistakes on a small scale so that it doesn’t cost you a lot of money.
Thank you for reading my blog. Brad Vigansky
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