It's been seven years now building the Rogue Rhino property out in San Tan Valley. I am finally at a point where I can consider rebuilding the old aquaponics system. The plan, utilize all the parts I currently have, put all of my creative juices to work, design the coolest water garden that will not only grow food and flowers, but also support waterfowl, ...
Aquaponics Part 2
Once I started new field construction at The Ranch House, on a larger scale I purchased six ,(6’x8’), steel culvert pipes. I buried these pipes using them to raise fish.
Back in 2008 I visited an aquaponics system down in Tucson, University of Arizona. This concept really captured my thinking as a new approach to growing food. The concept that you could raise fish in a large tank, pump water through flat troughs, grow food that would clean the water to recirculate back into the fish tank, was amazing. For me the ...