1 MILLION pounds of Food on 3 acres. 10,000 fish 500 yards compost
Growing power seems to have a winning combo going. I underestimated what they are doing. Based on the information in these videos, IF true, then on 3 acres they are producing 1,000,000 pounds of food each year! How are they doing this? Well, based on the information given in the video... 10,000 fish 300-500 yards worm compost 3 acres of land in green houses Grow all year using heat from compost piles. Using vertical space A packed greenhouse produces a crop value of $5 Square Foot! ($200,000/acre). Now, just to be clear I am not growing power or will allen. Also, a pound of plant or fish product is not the same thing as eatable food unless you process all parts of them for food. i.e. eating the fish bones and using plant stalks in stews. Generally, nations that are well fed throw away most of the plant and eat only the best parts thus lowing the yield of food. Growing power depends on and runs on the HUGE amounts of compost they make from food waste that is taken from the city. With out this compost there would be no heat for the greenhouses and no fuel for the plants to grow. Its a great thing to divert this from the landfill and provide cheap food for the community. My personal experience is that growing 7 pounds of food per square foot in a year is not that hard to do especially if you grow year around. You have to select plants that produce a lot of food in a small space which means you may not get a nutritionally complete diet if thats all you grow. Also layering of growth to use all space is important. I personally use a 12 foot diameter round pond 2.5 feet deep to grow annually 300+ pounds of fish in an aquaponic system and the bulk of my produce is grow using the biointensive method, in the ground, which is watered from the nitrogen rich fish water. My typical yield is between 6 and 9 pounds of food per square foot per year. This does require that I grow over winter which most people do not do. I find that growing in fall and winter months I actually get more production over fall and winter because there are NO bug problems! The crops do mature much slower, but they will mature! Think of it this way, the standard planted row may have 2 or 3 rows of veggies. Bio intensive will plant 12 rows; thats already 4 times the produce. Now add in onions, for example, that grow vertically above sweet potato vines, this increases production a lot. Now add to that 4 harvest per year vs the standard one season growing season. Now you have X4 more productivity. This brings us to X4X4 or 16 times the productivity of the standard growing methods. If you add to that hanging pot or what ever to add more growing space you have again increased productivity again. I personally have not used vertical space in that way. An snap shot of my experience is growing one sweat potato per 1.5' x 1.5' area (2.25 square feet) this one plant produces on average 12 pounds of root per plant and in that space I grow 4 to 6 leeks adding a pond of produce. Now, the vines grow all over the place, and I tie some up, are not confined to that 2.25 square feet of soil space. From each plant you can easily average 3 pounds of eatable leaves as you pick them over the growing season. At this point alone I am averaging 16 pounds of eatable food in 2.25 square feet or 16/2.5=7 pounds of food per square foot. Now that is in ONE GROWING SEASON. As I also grow fava beans, wheat, and fodder greens for two more seasons so my yelid is averaging 8 to 10 pounds in a year. IF I did this on 3 acres of growing space, excluding foot paths and green house walls ect then my production would be 8 pounds per square foot * 43560 feet acre * 3 = 1,045,440 pounds of food. It is possible to get even more by choosing the right crops and getting 4 harvest per year. I have settled on 4000 square feet of growing space per person for providing pretty much all the food a person needs. I suggest anyone starting out begin with a very small garden and do it well. Something like a 5' by 20' growing bed would be the most you would start with. SUGGESTED READING: backyardaquaponics [dot] com/forum Food Now by bountiful gardens One Mexican Diet by bountiful gardens Four Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman Winter Harvest Handbook by Eliot Coleman
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where are the cannabis plants what are paying for this whole shit ? fools think a black dude is doing gardening for vegetables, idiots
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I want to do this...just on a smaller scale! How and where can I take a class on this exact subject?
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Interested to know if there are any (omega 3) fish species which could be successfully grown in the long runs? Researched Tilapia and its not exactly the best fish option...nutritionally speaking). Also, wonder if they've tested their plants and fish for plastic toxicity (?) because I see an awful lot of plastic degradation potential in use in the operation (ie: plastic pots, plastic tubs, 100's of feet of PVC piping, plastic drip irrigation hoses, etc..)? Don't get me wrong, looks like a great idea/operation but one awesome step forward is not worth two toxic steps backwards. Very impressive overall ... good luck and continued success!
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Very very good job sir! Show the people the food prices are because of dummies in control of food production! Woot! You can also build a facility underground using glass sealed mirror tubes to guide light below for free light and heat during day. Glass sealed is to prevent water from coming in through your mirror system. In ancient Egypt they used black tile pools to store heat in & at night would open shafts between the walls to flow the hot water between the temple walls to keep them warm all night. Much more things.
Once people realize everything that can be used to increase yields per plot, they will realize their system is not as smart as the people. We are hundreds of millions of minds and they are just millions. -
What do the fish eat?
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Why not a coldwater fish since hydroponic water temp is prime at 68-72 degrees?
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HOW DID YOU DO THAT!?!?!
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I love all of your top 10. But the "Things Noobs do" is my favourite. Anyway I have a PS4
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look at the singapore project.They have perfected this. I am so glad to see something like this in our area. Great job!
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@GreenLearning: You mention in the description the dependence upon "HUGE" amounts of compost derived from "food waste" for power; I am not myself a grower and therefore have no direct experience, but theoretically wouldn't animal waste function just as well in this way, say in rural areas where food is more scarce? Or in regions of higher altitude, where meat is the primary food source?
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I thought i saw Donald Trumps little brother in there
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Where can I find more information? It seems like all these things are "look what i built" rather than this is how you do it in practice in different scales.
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How exactly would this be nonprofit, do you donate a lot of the food?
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wonder if this can be done in southwest arizona!
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This is one way. I very wise one.
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A beautiful closed loop system. Using compose as a heat source is a new one on me. Use what is there in the most efficient way. Best tip I learned on organic gardening is to have a few tall grassy type "weeds" in the mix. They contain natural pest repellents. Ring the area with them. But only native species that send up a high seed pods on a grassy stalk. If it looks like wheat, it's neat.
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The world's first aquaponics is the ancient chinampa system. Very easy to build and completely maintenance free when properly designed, built, and engineered to last. In fact, when the Spaniards discovered these chinampa systems they were told by the Incas that these chinampas are already very ancient to them and they have no clue on who invented them but they worked perfectly well right through a series of droughts and floods.
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Merci et bravo a vous . Vola un exemple pour l'humanité .
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What are the inputs of a system? What is the source of the fish feed? Great ideas combined!
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You have to be an Ahole to dislike this vid. Shame on you. This is a revolution in organic food production.
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