Ultimate Aquaponics Education Set
Three great videos and one great book...
This is the best aquaponics education for the home gardener you can find anywhere, at any price.
Complete Murray Hallam Aquaponics Video Set
The three Murray Hallam videos are a must for any serious, or beginning, aquaponic gardener. "Made Easy" and "Secrets" each runs approximately 90 minutes and "DIY" runs for a full two hours. The are all shot in Murray's own Australian backyard aquaponics environment featuring the master himself. Gorgeous video quality and exceptionally detailed, useful information.
Aquaponics Made Easy (value $42.95) includes:
- Setting up an auto-siphon
- How to set up and plant a grow bed
- Cycling the system
- How to test your system and what to look for
- How to tell when a system is truly balanced
- Fish and plant selection and care
- Building a bath tub system
Aquaponic Secrets (value $42.95) includes:
- Discussion of grow bed zones
- The use of vertical space
- Growing fruit trees in aquaponic systems
- Tips on fish care including stress and salt baths
- How to keep your tank clean and well aerated
- Murray's personal seed starting technique
- Different system types, including his famous CHOP system (constant height one pump), auto siphon learnings, and his new raft system design.
- Commercial aquaponics.
DIY Aquaponics (value $42.95) includes:
- An hour of Murray showing you step-by-step how to build your own 3 bed aquaponic system using IBC totes
- A second hour called "Aquaponics:The First Twelve Months" that explains how to look after your aquaponics system from start to harvesting your fish
- BONUS: The plans for building the IBC system from the DIY section in a downloadable PDF!
("Made Easy" and "Secrets" are in PAL format. These DVDs will play very well on your PC or Mac and the very latest multi format DVD players. "DIY" is in the NTSC format that works on all video players.)
Aquaponic Gardening: A Step by Step Guide to Growing Fish and Vegetables Together (value $29.95)
by Sylvia Bernstein, 288 pages, 84 photos and diagrams, 8 page color insert, soft cover
Aquaponic Gardening is the definitive do-it-yourself home manual, focused on giving you all the tools you need to create your own aquaponic system and enjoy healthy, safe, fresh, and delicious food all year round. Starting with an overview of the theory, benefits, and potential of aquaponics, the book goes on to explain:
- System location considerations and hardware components
- The living elements—fish, plants, bacteria, and worms
- Putting it all together—starting and maintaining a healthy system
This accessible book is also infused with humor and warmth; using quotes, stories and images from actual aquaponic gardeners though-out. Anyone interested in taking the next step towards self-sufficiency will be fascinated by this practical, accessible, and well-illustrated guide.
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