Local. Fresh. Natural. » Rhibafarms» First Fish! » Rhibafarms http://www.rhibafarms.com/blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:15:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 First Fish! http://www.rhibafarms.com/blog/aquaponics/first-fish/ http://www.rhibafarms.com/blog/aquaponics/first-fish/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:27:46 +0000 admin http://www.rhibafarms.com/blog/?p=416 We are very excited.  Today we received our first Tilapia for our aquaponics system, 400+ pounds of them!  This is a momentous step in our aquaponics project.  Hopefully we will get our first crops up and rolling soon.  Stay tuned for more updates on our exciting aquaponics project.

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]]> http://www.rhibafarms.com/blog/aquaponics/first-fish/feed/ 0 Rhibafarms Field trip http://www.rhibafarms.com/blog/news/rhibafarms-field-trip/ http://www.rhibafarms.com/blog/news/rhibafarms-field-trip/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:51:57 +0000 admin http://www.rhibafarms.com/blog/uncategorized/rhibafarms-field-trip/ Agroecology Instructor Rebekah Doyle Guss brought her plant propagation class from Prescott College down to Chandler to visit us on Friday the 26th of February.  She found us on the wonderful Local Harvest farm directory.  After a personal tour of RhibaFarms, she was convinced to bring her whole class down. This 13 student class is currently conducting their own experiments in micro-green growing as well as experiments with propagation of native plant species. Other projects include the planning of campus gardens and the relocation of a greenhouse on to the campus at Prescott College.

During their time here, they learned about our future aquaponics plans, a bit of RhibaFarms history and general day to day operations from Mark.  Roger, our water expert spoke to them about water, more particularly about how city water can be improved for growing.  He showed them what 500 PPM of total dissolved solids (tap water) looks like after being separated by a water flocculator.  Roger also went over some of the concepts of structured water.  Office and internet operations were briefly discussed by Suzi and Brian.  We took the class outside behind the greenhouse to see our soon to be running aquaponics tanks and to our experimental raised beds that contain peppers and lettuce.  While inside the greenhouse Harold went over our different hydroponics systems and Mark explained some of the basic features of our greenhouse.

We hope the class got some useful information, we know we had a ton of fun.  If you have a class or group that is interested in touring RhibaFarms, let us know at info@rhibafarms.com.  We can do tours for classes from kindergarten through college.

Thanks to Rebekah and her class for coming out.  You can find out more about the many agricultural programs they offer at Prescott College at www.prescott.edu

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Shown above is the massively huge and massively heavy rearing tank.  Soon to be chock full of swimming fish.  This thing took some strategic planning to move.

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