Wow, what a fantastic project! You must be such brilliant people. I am so envious! Good on you for taking such incentive to transform something so ordinary into something so remarkable. I wish I saw more of this. Unfortunately, we would never see things like this in Vancouver because it is too rainy and grey here (it's June and we've only have 1 sunny day so far) :(
u are approaching scary smart. u know a little sea salt will help the fish not sure about which plants like it (tomatoes do) is not full salt just brackish whatever that is one quarter steangth or somting
OH MY GOD! :O i have never EVER in my wildest dreams seen anything remotely like this! this is incredible! every home should have one! thank you for sharing
Thank You! It's hard to find reliable info on RU-vid specific to Arizona, so this is a great find. I appreciate the fact that you took the time to record it for us. I will be visiting Tropica Mango in the near future. I also hope to tour the garden pool before the end of the year. Recommendation for all your meetup videos... have the speaker repeat all the questions. I can hear the speaker, but I can't hear the questions from the audience at all.
How large would you estimate one of these would have to be to feed say 100 people? I imagine to a great extent it could be used to solve problems of hunger and water conservation in places like Africa.
I might get a little kids pool to put on my balcony when I move. I'm moving to a high rise and I won't have a lot of room to farm so I'm gonna grow Duck Weed to eat. Any suggestions?
@shaorin321 you'd be surprised how many how-to's there are Exactly on that subject...just go to the top, search "aquaponics" lol a little effort goes a longggg way...anyways, that's how i learn how, so much knowledge is open-source now it's incredible
I would be worried that if anything happened and being in the city like that you would be the first target of rioters and gangs looking for food and supplies . I use to live in mesa and moved to tucson 19 miles out in the desert. I surrounded my home/acre with 2600 feet of barbwire and cattle fencing. I'm currently growing 12 fruit trees and stocking a room with food, water, guns. I will be working on a pond and garden soon.Don't get me wrong you inspire me to do more. Just be cautious if shtf
i'm working to prep for the end of the Dollar . I bought a home in feb of this year far from the city and am working hard to get ready . I want to do a pond by next summer . How do thouse fish do here in Arizona ? Do you have to heat your green house/ pond when the temps drop to 28f??
wow good idea . I remember as a teen I had built a outdoor shower and had the water run to a canna flower bed it was the best looking cannas in arizona . :) I seen you guys on tv way to go !!! I use to live in mesa until a few years ago when I moved to tucson .
The one thing that concerns me, is prolonged standing on chicken wire, will hurt the chickens. I see you have patches of hay for comfort, which is great, also know why you need the wire for the waste to fall through. How about a net, made of rope? Soft on feet, and waste can still fall through.
@Beehe1337 The first few minutes of audio are not as good as the rest. This was a live broadcast that was outside. I really don't think the audio is worth complaining about. It isn't that bad considering the circumstances.
Just saw you guys on TV today on Living for the apocolypse. Very impressive what you guys are doing? Guess I couldnt do this here in the great white north in Canada eh?
Hi there... We have just started to use soap nuts (Sapindus) & found they wash the clothes great... Some have more species have more saponins than others but well worth looking into... Looking at doing the same with ours for the Self watering / wicking garden beds... Have a great one...
@ConcernedMushroom We use a stainless steel mesh lint trap where the water exits the washing machine drain hose and enters the wash tub. The lint trap can be seen in the video and it works well.
@SleestaksRule Our goats and chickens eat the grass we grow. It is important for us. We also have purslane by our pomegranate, which is one of the few native greens that can be grown here.
@marthale7 It is pretty easy to move the plants around. You carefully pick them up as the roots do not stick to the grow medium, hydroton. The roots do not grow as large as they do when growing in soil as well. This makes gardening very easy.
@facebookprogrammer Profits and power, who ever controls the worlds food supply controls the people. Monsanto has it's dirty little fingers in many Canadian farms as well.
This is the coolest thing that I have seen lately, I have become interested in hydroponics and started making a small system with just two plants, but now this inspires me to use the Jacuzzi that I was thinking of repairing. Thank you so much for your inspiration. Erick
I know a school that has a disused indoor pool that hasn't been used in 20 years. I wonder if we could do this in there? It's in New York, by the way, and the windows are very small and face north.
