Hands-on Aquaponics

This hands-on aquaponics intensive workshop will provide valuable information and skills necessary to build a personal or community aquaponic systems from locally sourced and repurposed materials.

The course covers:

• System components and sourcing
• Aquaponics design and location considerations
• Growbed, plant crop, fish tank size, stocking density and feed ratios
• Hands-on construction of a personal aquaponics system tank system
• Building a bell siphon and assembling other plumbing parts
• Filling the system with media and water
• Fishless and fish cycle startup procedures
• Discussion of fish transportation and stocking the tank
• Seeding, transplanting, rotational planting, plant health and harvesting
• Daily operations and maintenance

The systems built during class will be used for aquaponics demonstrations. Take home building materials can be purchased with advance notice for an additional fee.

Instructors: JD and Tawnya Sawyer

Meals: please bring a sack lunch and a reusable water bottle.

Cost: $125.00 Registration information can be found on our registration page.

See also the Introduction to Aquaponics workshop the previous day.