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Post by buildthefarm on Apr 24, 2014 21:59:44 GMT -5
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Post by hearingGod on Apr 25, 2014 7:00:00 GMT -5
if could get the pumps to run off solar... that'd be good. i kno his is low watts...but tilapia tank system & the poo from it growing the vegs... i would figure it would be better use of elect. for the buck for the protein gained. the prob. w/ doing fish is how do you make a system where they lay the eggs and you aren't going to the store for a new batch of fish eggs or baby fishies? a person i knew that was doing this for a living bought young fishies & raised them...but not practical for self-sustainable lifestyle. of course i haven't researched it cuz we have a pond & i'm more concerned w/ developing gardening & alternative feed sources for animals... but i'm sure someone has. i been making sweet potato slips. they are a great one for rooting in water. every time a new sucker grows 3-4" off of the tater, i move em' over to the water jar. it's pretty amazing....these slips will produce a whole harvest... and i always thought you had to use the taters themselves to propagate. i can say i've pulled a big sucker growing off a reg. potato to see it's slip capability, but taters shrivel up so much & exhaust so much into the sucker...i dunno that it could produce another one.... and that folks is prob. y ya cut taters b4 they go to foliage so eat section w/ eye hasta prod. it's own plant! derrrr. ya don't kno til' ya grow, LOL. at least in doing it the science makes sense of 'why'...and the 'why' is so cool!  basically, all the sweet taters (i purchased from slips last yr) and taters i grew... we didn't eat. we saved them all for bigger scale planting this yr. in the pict. on the left... i planted some of the red taters in a big pot this winter & as soon as the foliage decides it's done, i'll have a spring harvest....i'm surprised to see how big some of them r getting (the ones popping up on the surface). |
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Post by Saltandlight007 on Apr 26, 2014 4:55:43 GMT -5
This looks very interesting and the kind of thing we need - eco friendly, economical and better quality plants (our soil being so overworked and depleted of goodness). Agree - using solar energy would be even better. I didn't know much about this process, so did some research on YouTube about benefits and found this video:
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Post by buildthefarm on Apr 26, 2014 5:25:29 GMT -5
yeah I'm looking at making a repeatable system. this bucket thing looks like a good way to increase the plant population quickly when i get the set up. not thinking long term use but a great bridge from small operation to bigger. i was going over designs in my head for fish in the greenhouse and thinking about pumps and all that when it seemed like God was telling me 'would this work in a 3rd world country?'. and realistically in a place with no money and no electricity you can't get dead batteries replaced, you can't go pick up a new pump when one dies and so on. so I'm still working on the design, but i can't even use solar long term, gotta find a way to do it with one time set up (just for my thing). gotta use gravity i think.
on the plus side 3 very interesting people just recently appeared in my life: my girlfriend, who was sent from God!, she knows a lot about farming, about medicine and about emergency preparation. then our new guy at work is a chemistry major, knows auto mechanics, worked in lawn and garden at lowes so he knows some of that, and he just happened to grow up pentacostal of some kind:), and then my dad has a salesman working for him now that is also a talented small engine mechanic. basically any question i may have about anything I'm trying to do i have someone to ask!! except my the one question that no one seems to understand. but know the answer i just don't know how to build it:) i need a gravity powered pump that can go up lol. and it will work as long as you make really long and make it go down farther than it goes up (theoretically).
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Post by hearingGod on Apr 26, 2014 7:35:26 GMT -5
i like gravity idea...do something every so many hours and walk away. stingray & i were talking & it all came back to looking back at technology of pre 1800's days. he was specifically lauding the power in water wheels.... i kno u have a pond, is there a creek nearby?
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