Building a Commercial Aquaponics System is easy with our Do-It-Myself packages!
Of course, if you can afford the time and travel costs, our live group trainings or live individual trainings are the highest level of assistance we can offer you to get started in aquaponics. If you are unable to attend a live training, our self-taught packages have all the hard-copy information contained in those trainings.
Your package includes a course manual, computer-drawn construction plans, a construction manual with tons of pictures, and a day-to-day operations manual.
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(Please be aware that these Commercial Aquaponics Systems grow food exceedingly well, but will not magically turn you into a business person. Please make sure you get training on running a business from local sources.)
This Do-It-Myself, self-taught course covers all aspects of building and operating three different sizes of outdoors aquaponics systems: a 1,024 square foot system expandable to 4,096 square feet; a 256 square foot system expandable to 512 square feet; and a 64 square foot system expandable to 128 square feet. The smaller systems can be operated outdoors under natural light or indoors under flourescent lights, so you can easily build a small, inexpensive system to gain experience and confidence with aquaponics whether or not you have an outdoor space to grow in. It’s easy to graduate to the larger systems after building and operating a smaller one. This training package is designed for people who want to build their own systems to feed their own families, as well as to have enough to earn an income raising food for others.
Specifics covered are: site selection, system construction and operation, water quality and sources, vegetable and aquatic species qualities and selection, troubleshooting and problem solving of common system problems. $995 total cost includes a 112-page course manual, computer-drawn construction plans, a 47-page construction manual, operations manual, and materials list with contact information for suppliers. We include the construction drawings and materials list for the Family System, and the complete Micro System 64 & 128 manual and plans as part of the Commercial Do-It-Myself package, to make it easy for you to build one of these smaller systems to learn and gain confidence on before investing in a larger system.
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More about the Do-It-Myself Training and Construction Package for COMMERCIAL Systems
With this training package, you’ll learn everything we learned at the excellent University of the Virgin Islands 2007 Aquaponics Short Course, which cost us over $4,000 per person with travel from Hawaii to the Virgin Islands, lodging, rental car, and food.
You’ll also learn everything we learned this past three years building and operating five aquaponics systems, a tilapia hatchery and nursery, a Health Department Certified vegetable processing facility, and most recently, improved water circulation designs that use as little as one-tenth the electricity for pumping water our original UVI designs did. We will show you how we got our aquaponics farm USDA Organic Certified AND Food Safety Certified(no small feats! We are certified through Oregon Tilth, and they have said that “as long as people build their systems exactly as Friendly Aquaponics has done, then their certification process will be a slam dunk.”). Five additional Friendly students have gotten their systems USDA organically certified as of June 2010.
We will show you how we got our aquaponics farm USDA Organic Certified anf Food Safety Certified (no small feats!). And Oregon Tilth, our certifying agency, can certify you wherever you are in the United States. They have said that “as long as people build their systems exactly as Friendly Aquaponics has done, then their certification process will be a slam dunk.” Build something different, and you’ll have to go through the six-month process that we went through, as the certifying agencies are completely unfamiliar with aquaponics systems. Getting our system certified organic actually broke ground (if you’ll pardon the pun!) into an entirely new territory!
We built our systems for less than half what systems built to the UVI specifications would have cost in Hawaii. This saved us about $100,000 in our three systems. We’ll show you how to value engineer your system to save over $30,000 compared to what it would cost to build the UVI system.
Because of the way we value-engineered our systems for electrical economy, we use one-tenth to one-half the electricity the UVI systems use. This saves us $6,800 per year (more, as we grow), every year. We’ll show you how to do this.
We will show you how to build your own hatchery for well under $2,000 in materials. We spent over $25,000 on our hatchery – because we built what the UVI course said we needed – before discovering how to build this simple, elegant system. And this inexpensive system has about 90% less mortality of the fry than the $25,000 system that we built at first! We’ll show you how to easily raise tilapia from swim-up fry (which are very delicate) to fairly bullet-proof 1″ fingerlings, which you can then sell to other aquaculturists.
The training covers all aspects of commercial Aquaponics construction and operation, and how to scale systems to build any size system. Specifics covered will be: site selection, system construction and operation, regulations and permitting, water quality and sources, vegetable and aquatic species qualities and selection, meeting bureaucratic requirements, organic and food safety certifications, sales and marketing of your produce through traditional methods or the creation of a specialized niche market.
The Commercial Aquaponics Training gives you everything you need to successfully build and operate commercial Aquaponics systems. Generally, an aquaponics system can pay for itself within the first year of operation (as it takes a minimum of 2-3 months to get the system into full vegetable production after you have fish in your system, and around one year before you have fish ready to market). $995 total cost.
Lifetime Guarantee: We guarantee a full refund of the purchase price of your Commercial System plans IF you have actually used them. If you have built and operated a system and are still not satisfied, we will refund your money in full.
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Of course, if you can afford the time and travel costs, the live group trainings or live individual trainings are the highest level of assistance we can offer you to get started in aquaponics. If you are unable to attend a live training, these self-taught packages have all the hard-copy information contained in those trainings, plus construction and operations manuals that walk you through construction and operation of these systems.
DISCLAIMER: UNDER FEDERAL LAW, IT IS UNLAWFUL TO GROW MARIJUANA IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IN ADDITION, THESE SYSTEMS DO NOT WORK FOR GROWING MARIJUANA. We have a report from a friend of a student of ours, who had grown marijuana successfully using hydroponics for years, who tried for over a year to grow marijuana using Aquaponics systems, and never succeeded. Just so you know: When we say “food”, that is really what we mean.
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