John from www.growingyourgreens.com/ visits one of the largest aquaponics farms in the USA in Half Moon Bay, California to give you a complete tour of their operation and how they have increased their profits by designing systems to reuse all the waste on site and create additional revenue streams.
In this episode, you will learn more about Ouroboros Farms, an aquaponics farm in the Bay Area that has been growing vegetables and fish for the past 7 years. You will learn about some of their successes and failures as well as how they have designed their farm to educate people about aquaponics, but also produce a viable business model on how to generate cash flow from many different aspects of the farm besides just selling the vegetables and fish, which is what most farms do.
John will take you on a full tour of the farm, and how their aquaponic system works that has been designed to maximize vegetable production while using the least amount of fish food as possible.
Jump to the following parts of this episode:
02:24 How to Make Aquaponics Financially Viable
03:30 How Aquaponics works in a sentence
04:14 Hybrid UVI Aquaponics System
05:04 Hour of Farm You Can Visit
06:17 Vegetables are More Valuable than Fish
07:22 Retail Area with Demonstration Systems
08:16 Pick Your own Fresh Lettuce to Eat
09:48 Four Year Old Dinosaur Kale
10:39 Air from Water Machine
10:54 Vertical NFT Aquaponics Herb System
11:26 Growing Aloe Vera in Aquaponics
12:31 Hybrid Pot / Aquaponics System
13:00 Certain Plants will grow well under aquaponics
13:20 Two 55 Gallon Plastic Drum Aquaponics System
14:28 One Barrel Aquaponics System
15:12 Stock Tank Aquaponics System
15:36 Bluelab Guardian Meter to Monitor Your Ph
16:13 10 Gallon Fish Tank Aquaponics System
16:36 Vertical Aquaponics System
17:19 Duckweed Growing System
17:39 Aquaponic Fish Waste
18:24 Learn Aquaponics in the Classroom
20:00 Why to Buy used hydroton pebbles instead of new?
21:22 Additional Revenue Stream: Plugs - Zero Waste
22:56 Additional Revenue Streams: Tours and Farm to Table
23:25 How Aquaponics Works
24:24 Why they don't use Tilapia at the Aquaponics Farm
26:00 Do you want to grow fish or vegetables in Your Aquaponics
27:14 Eat More Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
27:55 Growing in Soil vs Aquaponics System
29:20 Main input to an aquaponics system: Fish Food
31:22 Other nutrients used
32:07 Aquaponics Farms Saves Water
32:47 Oxygen is the key to live in this system
33:53 Swirl Tank Filter - Safter fish tanks
35:15 Water Goes two different directions
36:01 Car Brush Filter tank with Additional Organisms
37:29 Adding Additional Minerals to Water
39:01 Gravel/Media Beds
39:23 Why Feed Minimally Filtered Fish Poop to Gravel Beds
41:15 What eats the fish poop to make nutrients for plants?
42:06 Walk thru of Media Beds
43:50 Hybrid Media Bed in Pots - How to get better Production
46:16 How Cannabis Can Grow in Aquaponics
46:47 Single Pump drives the whole system, otherwise gravity fed
48:27 Aquaponic Raft Beds and System Specifications
50:00 Grow 120,000 heads of lettuce a year
51:04 Taste Testing Red Lettuce
54:16 Lettuce Growing conveyer belt system Explained
56:24 Cut and Come Again Crops growing in Raft System
56:44 Growing Shisho to Order
58:32 Value the leaves you grow
58:55 Red and Purple Watercress
1:00:03 How seeds are started in plugs
1:01:51 Inside Germination room
1:02:37 Food Table Growing Under Hydroponics with specific Nutrients
1:04:12 Growing in SIP - Self Irrigated Planters -
1:05:30 How a SIP Bed Works
1:07:03 Taste taste of farm grown radishes
1:08:15 Making Worm Castings to Reduce Waste and Create Income
1:09:43 Harvestable Worm Castings
1:11:20 Active Worm Bin - Feeding My Produce Scraps
1:12:47 Feed more cardboard and Feeding Chitin for higher quality Castings
1:14:55 Making a high mineral fertilizer out of Fish Waste
1:17:16 Interview with Ken Armstrong
1:17:40 Why did you get into aquaponics?
1:19:49 What have been your biggest Successes and Failures?
1:21:11 Tell me more about the classes you teach here?
1:24:50 How do you see Aquaponics in the future of Agriculture?
1:26:50 Monetize all your waste products
1:28:00 Why is education important to the farm?
1:30:40 Having a Transparent Food System
1:31:50 Do you do school tours?
1:32:40 What is truly different about aquaponics?
1:35:45 How has Aquaponics Changed your life?
1:39:18 Are there any questions I should have asked you?
1:41:10 Any final words of wisdom?
1:42:20 How can someone get ahold of your farm?
After watching this episode, you will learn about how a profitable and successful aquaponics farm runs in Northern California.
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Learn more about Ouroboros Farm
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