Wanna Grow Fish and Vegetables Together?

5/21/2012

Murray Hallam, Tonya Penick, Penn Parmenter, Gina Cavaliero, Sylvia Bernstein, Cord Parmenter

Green Acre Aquaponics - Commercial

Look! The soil in this part of Florida is SAND! We were teaching for 2, 4-day Aquaponics courses in Florida. We taught Sustainable Greenhouse Design and Seed Saving in one day in between the two sessions.
The students visited and studied at this farm to learn commercial aquaponics. Gina and Tonya are the owners of this amazing set-up and gave us a wonderful tour. Part of the reason was the first session and our class was over when I took these pictures - it was after hours so that beer we had tasted so good - and I don't drink. Truly - it was the best tasting beer I've had in - well - ever.
Florida greeted us with perfect weather for mountain folks. We were prepared for the 90's and humidity. Instead we got the 70's and a cool breeze. WOW.

Combining rafts and media.

Tomatoes grow in gravel, greens in rafts.

Backyard Aquaponics

Sylvia's backyard is a wonderful place - and I was amazed at how much was happening in such a small space when it came to the Aquaponics. It's very efficient. The plants were healthy and happy - fed via fish and worms. It was fun to see it all - thanks again to Alan for the tour.

Sylvia Bernstein's greenhouse.

Alan Bernstein and Cord.

The summer unit - shut down for winter.

Sylvia wrote the book Aquaponic Gardening - you can get it from her at TheAquaponicSource.com.

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Author

Penn Parmenter is a high altitude gardener, seedswoman and student of the earth. She is married to Cord Parmenter - an awesome gardener, gorgeous man and a master blacksmith. Together they own and run a sustainable greenhouse design company, Smart Greenhouses LLC and Penn grows seed for her seed business, Miss Penn's Mountain Seeds. She is a mother of three sons and an outdoorswoman. Penn forages wild food, hunts big game, fishes, preserves, maintains a huge organic forest garden and occasionally makes dinner. At home you can find her in her greenhouses as well as in the wilderness - nose to the ground, butt in the air, trying to identify Colorado natives.