{Garden Life} Our fall/winter garden

{Garden Life} Our fall/winter garden

It’s been a few weeks since you were last able to peek into our garden…and there have actually been some noteworthy changes. We’ve had unusually warm weather here for the last few weeks, with only one brief freeze while we were gone (not that...
Filling & trimming our aquaponics grow bed

Filling & trimming our aquaponics grow bed

I talked a little bit yesterday about the different types of aquaponics growing media that are available for consideration. As I mentioned, we went with expanded clay pebbles (4-16mm big) which were actually made exactly for this purpose. The exact pebbles we got are...
Filling & trimming our aquaponics grow bed

Selecting aquaponics growing media

It’s been a while since I talked about our aquaponics system, but we have indeed been working on it and it’s actually running very well. We’ve had our beds filled and even have plants in it but I putting the events down in words has taken a while...
Filling & trimming our aquaponics grow bed

What’s so great about aquaponics

I know you’ve been reading the word “aquaponics” a lot lately on this blog and I don’t think I’ve really explained what it is. So in case you’re curious but just lack the time or sincere interest to go learn more about what it is...

Thanks and pebble happiness

Yesterday, I was very pleasantly surprised to learn that Growing Edge, a massive resource about anything and everything to do with sustainable growing from aquaponics to backyard gardens, had mentioned our little aquaponics project on their blog. As if that...