Urban Fish Farmer Video Colletion
Check out our collection of Indie videos on home scale aquaponic systems, backyard gardens, urban chickens and urban fish farms combined into symbiotic environments.:
Garden Pool – Aquaponics
Do you have pool in your backyard that you are not quite sure what to do with? How about raising some chickens, fish and enough fruits and vegetables to feed your family. Check out what this creative family did in Arizona, turning their backyard pool into a sustainable food provider for their family. What is a garden pool you might ask, well according to the founders of Gardenpool.org “The Garden Pool was a large run-down pool that is now a [...]
URBAN ROOTS -Documentary
Check out this trailer to short film put together about the inner city of Detroit coming together and planting urban farms. Urban Roots Trailer from Tree Media on Vimeo. Urban Roots is the next documentary from Tree Media. Produced by Leila Conners (The 11th Hour) and Mathew Schmid and directed by Mark MacInnis, the film follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit. Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial [...]
Aquaponics In the Tropics
The following video is pretty inspiring. It is large home-scale aquaponics system that was installed at a house in the Philippines posted on greencorerevolution. Heads up, the score/music in the video kind of lags, feel free to turn down the volume. You can see how they incorporate fish, vegetation, ducks and even rabbits into their system. The system holds 5,000 ltr water and 8,000 ltr gravel, it uses a 1/2 horse power motor ( $ 15 ) on timer ( [...]
Escondido Tilapia Farm
Recently I made a trip out to Escondido, which is in East San Diego County to visit the fellas over at the Escondido Tilapia Farm. Out there they have a sustainable set up to raise Tilapia for local fish farmers and urban aquaponic fanatics like myself. The following video was taken with my Iphone 3, so I have to appologize for the messy footage Compost Pile Water Heating System The tiplapia are kept in a 900 square foot barn [...]
Home Scale Constant Flow Aquaponic System
Here is example of a home scale gravity feed constant flow aquaponic unit that I set up in our front yard in Ocean Beach, California. The tank is a 750 liter re-purposed food grade cart dug 16 inches into the ground then covered with bricks for aesthetics. The water is pumped up into a set of 8ft x 4inch PVC tubes with 3inch wholes cut every 10 inches for the vegetables to grow out of. The tubes were painted brown [...]
Backyard Ebb & Flow Aquaponic System
This is a home scale aquaponic unit that installed in our backyard. I repaired an old 150 gallon fish tank by supporting it with some treated 2×4′s and plywood. It is a gravity feed system that operates with one pump that pumps water up into the top 7ft x 4inch PVC unit. 3inch Holes are drilled every 10 inches along the pipe where different vegetables are growing. The water exits the first tube and splits into two hoses. One hose [...]
