Beginnings
Clare Gill
We bought the farm in October 2014 and were greeted by a HUGE, empty greenhouse. Were we crazy? The task of filling it seemed a daunting one at the time! In our 4,400 sq ft high tunnel, we have a 2,200 gallon tank of gold fish, and 15,000 gallons of grow beds with enough slots in our rafts for almost 10,000 plants. We hired the previous tenant as a consultant for the first six months and he showed us his approach to planting, transplanting and harvesting. Now that we've already turned over the whole greenhouse several times we're old pros and we've tweeked those methods to suit us. The learning curve continues to be steep as we enter each new season and here we'll share some of what we now know about the art and science of aquaponics.