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• Monday to Friday 9-5 access
• Internet Access
• Locked Storage (bring a padlock)
• Options to hire event space evenings and weekends
• 10 minute walk from Parson Street Station
• on the 76 Bus Route
• Tea Coffee and basic Kitchenette
• Community Garden in progress with outdoor seating and planters

#ibc #aquaponics build workshop was a great success! We got the system complete and working! By the end of the day all the students felt confident that they could do this for themselves. They took home course notes including build plans, instructions and a shopping list with links to products online! And we all ate together (of course).

We added aquatic plants to our #eel #conservation #aquaponics system and had the help of lots of volunteers at our workday!

After a few days Easter Break we all meet for a check-in to see where we are at with the tasks at hand. James has made progress on building the lighting rig for system 2 and needs to go get more pipes. I order more IP rated hydroponic lighting controllers from iquatics. Sam is wandering when the new Seneye sensor system will arrive. Jay and Diane are volunteering from UWE’s IWC conservation programme.

Jon who rigged up our last aquaponic electronics system is in tomorrow morning bright and early to rig up system 2.

And Jen’s is arriving tomorrow – for his placement with us!

Plus we are keen to make sure we are ready for our forthcoming courses –

IBC system build workshop

Commercial Aquaponics Course – 4 Day intensive

Today it’s just James, Merle, Mark and Alice working on a few jobs on the farm. Building lighting racks for the new system, tidying up the watercress, seeding, cleaning and of course stopping for curry for lunch. The eels are gradually coming off the starvation programme and beginning to feed. Especially those in the IBC system. The dark tanks seem happier than the white tanks – so we consider cladding them to reduce stress.

Antonio Paladino of @bioaquafarm came to visit and advised we add a RAS style #biofilter to our #eel system whilst we prepare our #aquaponic media beds. Bloody good thing too as the snow keeps us away from the farm.

The filter is in an IBC, with some sizeable airstones on a hailea pump to keep the filter material moving. We ordered some filter material to make a home for the bacteria.

Antonio also helped us speed up our cycle by offering us 100l of already bacteria rich filter media from his own system to boost our system cycle. Now there’s a good aquaponic neighbour! Hopefully we can return the favour sometime!

Great thanks and gratitude to him as always and pointing any budding aquaponicists in BioAqua farm’s direction!

Today Sam picked up 50odd kg of #eels from UK Glass Eels for #restocking! #conservation #aquaponics

5000 ish eels need a new home in a hurry so a big group of volunteers work until 2.30am preparing a big tank to receive the precious delivery!

Brilliant support from today’s volunteers. We piled the geodesic dome, painted the eel mural, and hung some planters…