This is absolutely brilliant. So good to hear the honest prospects of aquaponics as well as some of the constraints all wrapped up so succinctly. Thanks!
Definitely a passionate commited speaker that wants to fix the planet. This woman ideas has the solution to many 3rd world or 1st world hunger problems
I've always envisioned cities having huge buildings that are made specifically for farming. Giant, glass windowed aquaponic farms that produced more efficiently and more sustainably than ground based farms. That'll definitely be a sight.
This is a good system to adopt, I think it would certainly be less harmful and more productive than our current farming system. It could also be used in traditionally non-productive areas!
Could you guide me where I can learn the basic and principles of aquaponics? I have met some farmers trying aquaponics here in Indonesia but none of them had a satisfying yield. Fish poops are just seems to be inadequate to nourish the plants..
Hi Ali - yes, it can be designed to be a suitable method in most areas... The hardest part (we find) is finding people who stay motivated to run systems for the long term. Short duration enthusiasm is common... but aquaponic systems (even more than ground based agriculture) require observant staff and people who are long-range planners. Check out Bonnie Hanszen's Simplified Aquaponics Manual for some ideas to get started!
I love you, I have not finished watching your youtube and you have already changed my outlook. I am building a 16,000 gallon fish pond with the intent of doing aquaponics, we will be talking
Terry Ble can you write me an e-mail i want to see ur result in making the aquaponic garden i want to try this in my country if you can of course islamikaddri@gmail.com
Hello! Hey there Tracy! Congrats for your presentation! I'm starting my own company about aquaponics here in south america. I intend to disseminate this technic around here and hope to see a better world in the future. I´d like be part of that kind of movement, can you help me?
Hi PH -- fantastic to hear that you are moving forward with an aquaponics business! Great job -- feel free to send a message with what you are thinking of tackling and if I can get you connected with any helpful resources. Best regards!
Tracy Van Veen hello any books or links to articles you recommend. Would love to read resources that others found helpful when building such a system in a developing nation(cost, local material, tropical climates). Thx.
Hello Tracy! I'm tackling right now a way to prove that this way of production is organic! And that it can be labeled as so. Cause here in Brasil, the aquaponics production system still not recognized so, I can use some support from the outside. Im also starting some systems in schools around here. And if You know some methodology for pedagogical use, it would be very helpfull. Thx for the atention! Many hugs!!
Hi Swaroop -- the statistics vary according to type of crop grown and so it is difficult to make blanket statements on estimated comparative yields. However -- in general, one can expect significantly higher density growth due to consistent availability of nutrients -- and therefore much less land is needed for consistent crop production (without need for crop rotation due to soil nutrient depletion). Climate/region of the world is also a significant factor to consider.
+David Hutchinson Hi David -- quite a generalization -- would love a discussion. :) Feel free to message me with what is concerning you about statements made about diet! Thanks
The world is bountiful, it can sustain us all, if we weren't so lazy in the techniques we develop to produce anything from natural resources. We take those resources for granted and plunder the worlds riches, even causing over supply of products. We are a very wasteful people. The world can sustain us, yet not by using our present form of production techniques. We have to invent more creative ways that are cost, labour and environmentally efficient to sustain our current levels of world wide population. As mentioned the world can sustain us, yet not through current methods of production. Current factory farming methods exploit the environment, they do not work in harmony with nature and thereby we live in excess of the worlds capacity to sustain us.....V
Truth. We can certainly look for much more creative solutions to solving age-old problems of food production on a mass scale. I am very much looking forward to seeing new innovations develop. Aquaponics is a good start. Thanks for watching!
Yes they did -- I know very little about it, but it seems that there was a fairly extensive network of rock wall "pens" that would ebb and flow with the tides. There are some reconstructed sites to visit on the Big Island. I'm not sure about the other islands.
+goltoof it is possible to build lower productivity systems that are simple gravity feed systems. People without access to electricity can keep a lower fish density (so there is no need to aerate the water) and simply manually transport water from the lowest point (sump tank) back up to the top of a trickle down tank in 5 gallon pails. Or any number of other nifty low-tech zero electricity ideas!
You and Stephen Ritzi can change the planet and human care ( TEDX talks. Thanks
This is absolutely brilliant. So good to hear the honest prospects of aquaponics as well as some of the constraints all wrapped up so succinctly. Thanks!
Tracy gives such an excellent presentation here. So effective from her heart and from her mind.
Definitely a passionate commited speaker that wants to fix the planet. This woman ideas has the solution to many 3rd world or 1st world hunger problems
Great video. Great speaker. Very motivational.
I've always envisioned cities having huge buildings that are made specifically for farming. Giant, glass windowed aquaponic farms that produced more efficiently and more sustainably than ground based farms. That'll definitely be a sight.
Love it Tracy! Some of our staff are working on getting one up and running at the moment.
This is a good system to adopt, I think it would certainly be less harmful and more productive than our current farming system. It could also be used in traditionally non-productive areas!
the andies farmers used "aquaponics" in a complex & sophisticated system.
Thanks, hope to message when i started my small scale aquaponis trial!
How did it go?
Could you guide me where I can learn the basic and principles of aquaponics? I have met some farmers trying aquaponics here in Indonesia but none of them had a satisfying yield. Fish poops are just seems to be inadequate to nourish the plants..
I love aquaponics
Great talk.
what an amassing system, will this system suitable in Africa, where the food security and luck of clean water is major issues to rural communities
Hi Ali - yes, it can be designed to be a suitable method in most areas... The hardest part (we find) is finding people who stay motivated to run systems for the long term. Short duration enthusiasm is common... but aquaponic systems (even more than ground based agriculture) require observant staff and people who are long-range planners. Check out Bonnie Hanszen's Simplified Aquaponics Manual for some ideas to get started!
+Tracy Van Veen dgbrec c vre
Let's go back.... I'd love to help.
Tracy, I would love to do this at my ranch. Could you let me know how to get this information from you.
This is huge. Killing so many birds with one stone.
I love you, I have not finished watching your youtube and you have already changed my outlook. I am building a 16,000 gallon fish pond with the intent of doing aquaponics, we will be talking
Terry Ble can you write me an e-mail i want to see ur result in making the aquaponic garden i want to try this in my country if you can of course islamikaddri@gmail.com
Yeah lol! I'd smash hahaha
Hello!
Hey there Tracy! Congrats for your presentation!
I'm starting my own company about aquaponics here in south america. I intend to disseminate this technic around here and hope to see a better world in the future. I´d like be part of that kind of movement, can you help me?
Hi PH -- fantastic to hear that you are moving forward with an aquaponics business! Great job -- feel free to send a message with what you are thinking of tackling and if I can get you connected with any helpful resources. Best regards!
Tracy Van Veen hello any books or links to articles you recommend. Would love to read resources that others found helpful when building such a system in a developing nation(cost, local material, tropical climates). Thx.
Hello Tracy!
I'm tackling right now a way to prove that this way of production is organic! And that it can be labeled as so.
Cause here in Brasil, the aquaponics production system still not recognized so, I can use some support from the outside.
Im also starting some systems in schools around here. And if You know some methodology for pedagogical use, it would be very helpfull.
Thx for the atention!
Many hugs!!
great talk! These subtitles though.....lol
Hi, how we could get contact Tracy for starting a project in Africa, thanks
Why she is not talking about land used compared to general agriculture
Hi Swaroop -- the statistics vary according to type of crop grown and so it is difficult to make blanket statements on estimated comparative yields. However -- in general, one can expect significantly higher density growth due to consistent availability of nutrients -- and therefore much less land is needed for consistent crop production (without need for crop rotation due to soil nutrient depletion). Climate/region of the world is also a significant factor to consider.
She's clueless about diet...but spot on about the system.
+David Hutchinson Hi David -- quite a generalization -- would love a discussion. :) Feel free to message me with what is concerning you about statements made about diet! Thanks
The world is bountiful, it can sustain us all, if we weren't so lazy in the techniques we develop to produce anything from natural resources. We take those resources for granted and plunder the worlds riches, even causing over supply of products. We are a very wasteful people. The world can sustain us, yet not by using our present form of production techniques. We have to invent more creative ways that are cost, labour and environmentally efficient to sustain our current levels of world wide population. As mentioned the world can sustain us, yet not through current methods of production. Current factory farming methods exploit the environment, they do not work in harmony with nature and thereby we live in excess of the worlds capacity to sustain us.....V
Truth. We can certainly look for much more creative solutions to solving age-old problems of food production on a mass scale. I am very much looking forward to seeing new innovations develop. Aquaponics is a good start. Thanks for watching!
The Hawaiians practiced aquaculture, did they not?
Yes they did -- I know very little about it, but it seems that there was a fairly extensive network of rock wall "pens" that would ebb and flow with the tides. There are some reconstructed sites to visit on the Big Island. I'm not sure about the other islands.
Graphene is more important
important as Graphene is you can't eat it, if you were starving i know you would change that view.
goltoof
Fair, valid point.
+goltoof it is possible to build lower productivity systems that are simple gravity feed systems. People without access to electricity can keep a lower fish density (so there is no need to aerate the water) and simply manually transport water from the lowest point (sump tank) back up to the top of a trickle down tank in 5 gallon pails. Or any number of other nifty low-tech zero electricity ideas!
if no electricity, you can pump water mechanically using a bicycle.
She talks to much
apparently she has what to say; offering good ideas and solutions!
Alexis Soto so do you and you said 4 words