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Can Aquaponics be Financially Viable? Seven Years after we First Asked – Do We Know Now?
We first wrote the article below in 2010, seven years ago. We were just getting started with commercial scale aquaponics as a hands-on research and development project. We are still involved with aquaponics today, but the question raised in this article is still...
Maintaining & Getting your Fish Pond Ready for the Spring
Spring is here, and your backyard fish pond will come back to life. This means you’ll need to do some maintenance work for your backyard fish pond. 5 Tips for getting your pond ready for the spring: As the weather warms up, you can start thinking about preparing it...
Build a Profitable Shrimp Farming Business from Home
Home based shrimp farming can be a very profitable business. It also ensures a healthy organic diet for you, your friends and family! Shrimp is a tasty and healthy food which is considered a high-quality commodity. If you want to, you could be able to raise shrimps...
Commercial Shrimp Farming Business to Feed the World
Commercial Shrimp farming can be a profitable business and a way to produce high quality source of food. Infect, shrimp is a multi-million dollar industry in aquaculture. Anyone can make good money with a commercial shrimp farm because of the many advantages that...
Design Your First Backyard Aquaponic Fish Farm
If you want to design and build an aquaponic system at home but don’t have much experience, we have a few great tips for you. If you are an absolute beginner, this is a great place to start! Fish is a wonderful creature that has many uses. And you know what the best...
Celebrate Sustainability
Celebrate Sustainability Weekend 2016 In Conjunction with National Alpaca Farm Days! September 24th-25th, 2016 Join us at Mountain Sky Ranch for a day of friends, festivity, and food to celebrate sustainable agriculture and living! Get your tickets...
Turn Your Backyard into a Profitable Fish Farming Business
Backyard fish farming can be a profitable business. However, you do need some special skills and knowledge about fish. Here are some tips to help get you started. If you are enthusiastic about raising fish in your backyard pond, you should try to gain as much...
3 Easy Ways to Create an Ecologically Balanced Backyard Pond
Pond ecosystems benefit your fish's health and they also help minimize your inputs and costs for maintaining your fish. An ecologically balanced pond is environmentally friendly and economically beneficial! You may have a pond in your backyard or you may be thinking...
Overfished Wild Fish Stocks? Aquaculture May be the Answer
Ocean fish and wild fish stocks around the world have decreased considerably. Overfishing has caused an imbalance in the aquatic ecosystem. Aquaculture may be the answer to restoring and regenerating wild fish stocks around the world! Overfishing has reduced the wild...
Do You Want To Build A Natural Fish Pond in your Backyard?
Anyone can dig a natural fish pond and raise fish. All it takes is a little bit of space, time, and some knowledge of fish farming. Two major experiences stand out in my life when I think about natural fish ponds. They both happened in Kentucky, one while I...
A Home Based Fish Farming Guide for Absolute Beginners
Fish is good for you. It’s healthy and tasty, and easy to raise at home. Here are some home based fish farming tips for absolute beginners. Fish is one of the best foods there is. It’s tasty, full of nutrition, and can be raised at home in many different ways, for...
Profitable Fish Farming
Learn what it takes to raise your own fish and make some money doing it! Fish farming can be extremely profitable: but only if you do it right. Profitable Fish Farming Commercial Fish Farming today presents those with special skills and attention to detail with a...
Tips For Feeding Fish In Ponds
When you have a pond, it can be a blessing and a curse at the same exact time. However, if you have fish in the pond then you know that you will have to do something with them to keep the fish alive. The problem is when you go to find the food for your fish, you may...
Why Vertical Aquaponic Gardens are the way to go
Aquaponics is a form of agriculture that is more productive than organic farming and reduces the need for water by almost 95 percent. It also requires less labor and is convenient for setting up in apartments and homes without the need for a garden plot or other...
Why Shrimp Farming?
Why Shrimp Farming? If you’re looking for a profitable business idea, then you don’t need to look much further than shrimp farming. Shrimp are always in high demand and if you can create and run a successful freshwater shrimp farm, you will definitely find financial...
A Brief Step by Step Spring Pond Maintenance Guide
With the arrival of spring it’s time to start preparing your pond for warmer weather. It’s the time to start spring pond maintenance to make a healthy and stress free transition. As the weather warms up, it’s time to wake your dormant pond. You need to make some time,...
What’s the difference?
What’s the difference? Many new practices are being explored as we search for sustainable farming techniques to help feed the planet. However, hearing these terms for the first time can be a little hard to follow. Hydroponics? Permaculture? What really is the...
Setting up Your own Home Based Tilapia Farm
Tilapias are warm water and hardy fish. Prior to setting up a tilapia farming production you need to do some planning. It is good to start a tilapia farm that is easy to maintain and one that will easily fit your lifestyle. Water Temperature Tilapia is one of the most...