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jaymesdec started the forum topic Natural pH up/down alternatives for aquaponics in the group
Aquaponic Window Farms: 1 year, 6 months ago · ViewHi Window Farmers. My class just finished building a rather large window farm (50+ plants) with a four cell living machine. The first cell has crushed oyster shells. The second has water plants (duckweed and hyacinth). The third has about 15 goldfish and the fourth has a sand and gravel filter above a large pump [...]
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jaymesdec wrote a new blog post: Classroom Window Farm + Living Machine 1 year, 7 months ago · View
My class at GreenFab http://www.bronxgreenfab.org/ in the Bronx is building a rather large window farm that we plan on connecting to a living machine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_machines The machine will consist of 4 cells of water with goldfish, snails, oyster shells, sand and gravel. Since we have animals in our system, we don’t want to use any [...]
Do you have photos or more details to share? Sounds great.
Awesome thing, doing this in the schools. I’ve got a youtube up (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zq7T6QNrc4) showing the small aquaponic window farm I set up for one of my daughters. Might be a fun way for some of the kids to keep this up after they move on from your class.
Hi Meg
I watched your video, that’s the first I’ve seen anyone doing window aquaponics like that, quite cool. I am assuming that the gravel has not been charged up yet with bacteria?