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San Diego Tilapia Fry

We have been very blessed with our aquaponics system and the continued growth of the fish and the vegetables even through this cooler fall season. One of the first reasons that we set up an aquaponics garden was to help off-set our food costs and to have something edible just in-case we needed it [...]

Saturday Morning Chores

Hanging Garden

The Aquaponic Hanging Garden is Filling in Great

With all of the gardens and animals that our family has accumulated over the past few years we have a list of chores that we all do together on Saturday mornings to keep up our little place. The plants need to be watered, the gardens need to [...]

Backyard Garden Update

I shot the following video this morning from our Backyard. We have been crafting around in our spare time working on the aquaponics garden, finishing up the new chicken coop ad-on as well as building a new rabbit hutch for Dexter, our newest family member.

I am excited to report that all of our gardens are [...]

Front Yard Gardens

One of things that is nice about our new place is the extra space that we have.  Unfortunately, in our front yard we have a pretty big driveway but only a little yard space to hang out. So needless to say we had to be creative on where we would put our gardens. There is [...]

New Backyard Garden

This is a home scale aquaponic unit that I installed in our new backyard. It is a pretty cool unit because you can really get the jist of what is going on, as well as keep a good eye on the fish at the same time. I repaired an old 150 gallon fish tank by [...]

Escondido Tilapia Farm

Just the other day I took a trip out to Escondido, which is in East San Diego County to pick up a few Tilapia from the couple over at the Escondido Tilapia Farm. They had a really cool and inspiring set-up to raise Tilapia for local fish farmers and urban aquaponic fanatics like myself.

Compost [...]

Organic Garden Plots

Shade Garden

Our shade garden is starting to take off with the rest of our vegetable gardens. This is the the area that is directly outside of our living room where we keep our fish tank and our seedlings. One of the cymbidium orchid plants that we picked up from GG a month ago is [...]

Visit with Grandma GG

Last week we went for a road trip up to Pasadena to visit Ricky’s Grandma GG  “Great Grandma”. The ride up there was simple enough when we timed it to coincide with Eli’s morning nap. While we were there we enjoyed visiting with Grandma and spending time in her yard. She has a beautiful shade [...]

Animal Farm

Our Labrador, Judah, can be a bit of a handful sometimes most of the time. He runs out the back door at every chance he gets, stops every few feet on a walk to sniff/pee/eat,  and will devour darn near anything resembling a food item if given the slightest opportunity.  Last week he managed to get [...]

Garden Pond

Lyndsey and I have slowly been putting together our new aquaponics garden system. Aquaponics is is the symbiotic cultivation of plants and aquatic animals in a recirculating environment. Fish waste from the pond/tank accumulates in water as a by-product of keeping them in a closed system. The dirty water becomes high in plant nutrients [...]