Interested in Building a Family Aquaponics System?
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With basic construction and basic plumbing skills, building an aquaponics system easy with our detailed Do-It-Myself Packages!
Our Family Systems are the ideal size for either a LARGE family (our Farmily consists of twelve people at the moment), a small community or a church group. We’ve recently expanded our Family Do-It-Myself aquaponics manual and plans from the original 256 square feet of grow bed area to include construction plans, operating instructions, and materials list for a 512 square foot Aquaponics system as well. Build the 512 square foot system, or build the 256-square-foot system first then expand it to 512 square feet! These systems are designed to use as little energy as necessary while still maintaining the highest possible vegetable and fish production. This saves money for those on the grid and makes these systems feasible for off-grid use when powered with alternate energy systems such as wind, hydroelectric, or solar. Because this package ALSO includes the Micro System 64 & 128 plans, you are equipped to build and operate any aquaponics system from 64 square feet of grow bed area up to 512. This is useful if you wish to start with a small, affordable system such as the Micro System 64, then build a bigger system later when you feel more comfortable and confident.
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Do-It-Myself Aquaponics Training and Construction Package for FAMILY Systems
Specifics covered are: site selection, system construction and operation, water quality testing and sources for system water, vegetable and aquatic species qualities and selection, seed sources, pest control, vegetable sprouting and planting-out, vegetable and fish harvesting, fish hatching and breeding, and troubleshooting and problem solving of common system problems.
Package includes: Includes a course manual, computer-drawn construction plans, a construction manual, and a day-to-day operations manual. Included in this package is all the information on aquaponics the Commercial package has, PLUS the Micro System 64 & 128 plans. You may ask “Why should I purchase the Commercial package: can’t I just scale this system up and do a commercial operation?” Well, that’s true, if you’re not interested in the information the Commercial package contains on business startup, marketing, permits and regulations, value-added processing, USDA Organic Certification, Food Safety Certification, operating a commercial-scale fish hatchery, and much more. The Family package is appropriate for a large family, a small community or church group, or someone who wants to take some produce to the farmers market once or twice a month for a little additional income. Click here to learn more about how we developed our Family Systems (also known as our Low Density systems) which operate on much smaller amounts of electricity and fish food than ever before possible.
With your basic construction and plumbing skills and this plans package, you will build a stable, easy-to-operate Aquaponics system. Materials for the Family System 256 cost about $1,357 on the mainland, and about $1,759 for the 512 (this is $1,899 in Hawaii for the 256, $3,000 for the 512). The 512 only costs $400 more than the 256 ($1,100 in Hawaii), and only uses 15 watts more per month, so it costs less per square foot. The Family System 256 uses 70 watts, and the 512 uses 85 watts, which is from $5-7 of electricity per month ($19-22 in Hawaii); $4-8 of fish food per month ($8-16 in Hawaii); and $6-8 of seeds and potting media per month ($12-20 in Hawaii) for a monthly cost to operate of $15 for the 256, and $23 for the 512 ($39 for the 256, and $58 for the 512 in Hawaii). The 256 will produce 75-125 pounds of vegetables and 4-7 pounds of fish per month, depending on what varieties of vegetables you grow, how much attention you pay to them, and how much sunlight you get in your location; the production of the 512 is double this, or 150-250 pounds of vegetables and 8-15 pounds of fish.
Assuming you would have to pay at least $4.00 per pound – remember, when you eat food you raised yourself, you are paying yourself what the retail cost of that food would be, and this is a conservative estimate – for organic produce and naturally-raised fish, that means you will be producing between $300 – $500 of high-quality food per month with the Family System 256. Even at the low end of these numbers, your system pays for itself within the first six months of operation, not counting any value from the fish. The Family System 512 costs about $400 more than the 256 but produces twice the vegetables; it pays for itself in a shorter time.
Lifetime Guarantee: We guarantee a full refund of the purchase price of your Family 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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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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