Evo farm mar vista

In warmer areas such as Hawaii and southern Florida, for instance, tilapia is the fish of choice for aquaponics systems, but even the moderate Los Angeles winter proved too chilly for the heat-loving fish. After a cold snap last December, the water temperature sank into the death zone, and the fish ended up in the compost pile. He restocked his three gallon tanks with several species of catfish. When he tosses pellets of feed into the tanks, it looks like the tanks are boiling, as hungry fish roil the water.

Little do they know that the more they eat, the more quickly they will outgrow the system and end up in a fish fry. Currently, however, Rosenstein is not looking to sell the fish, because the revenue would not justify the expense of a commercial aquaculture license, which would be required, he says.

His main focus is in growing vegetables, including 50 kinds of lettuce, Asian greens, basil and tomatoes. He has 1, plants growing for harvest and 9, seedlings in his nursery, where they are tended several hours daily by the nursery manager, Yuni Lee, an artist who lives nearby. Until recently, Rosenstein had been giving away the produce to friends while experimenting to find varieties that produce well and taste good.

Now, however, he is excited at the prospect of selling his harvest for the first time on Sunday at the Mar Vista market, five blocks from the farm. Unlike some farmers market vendors who carefully guard their secrets, Rosenstein is eager to teach others. He has had discussions with local homeowners interested in hosting his next venture, a much larger commercial farm that he plans to build this year in the area. He hopes this will allow him to fulfill his dream: that he and Cecile could support their family doing work they love.

More From the Los Angeles Times. Finding the flavors of Indonesia in L. The following is the first post in a series by David Rosenstein that will explore the benefits of aquaponics. He is also the chair of the Aquaponics Association — Western Region. If you count the number of people who are actually actively engaged in aquaponics on a global scale, that number is statistically about as close to zero as you can get.

Yet, this relatively unknown method of food production is not only the most promising next step in agriculture, but also on the very short list of things that just might save ourselves from ourselves.

Many more traditionally minded naysayers doubt the potential of aquaponics. But somewhere in this ever-growing body of aquaponicists, there are a select few who stay the course, remain razor focused and are discovering the tiny subtleties that will propel this already elegant and essential food system into something even greater — common knowledge.

If this relatively new species called homo sapiens can survive long enough to unlearn the path of the not-so-green Green Revolution and rethink the critical nature of what we eat, how we access that food and how it is distributed, then we might just find a new trajectory for this spiral we are on. A new set of definitions is required to begin the discourse that will set us straight.

Local is not something that is measured in miles but in feet. Sustainable is more than just something that feels good, it is also profitable, tastes great, and will remain present for the foreseeable future.

Resilience is not the ability to fight the ever-changing face of nature, but to actually acquiesce and work from within it until we realize that without it we have just about nothing left. If only we can sit still, observe, and try to understand what systems have worked for the planet long before we arrived, we just might be pleasantly surprised.

As it turns out, we have numerous opportunities to replicate and integrate these systems that have stood the test of time. Just as we have all breathed the same molecule of air that passed through the lungs of Napoleon, a drop of water passes through an extensive lifecycle that at one point or another finds itself in an ever-so-small body of water surrounded by trees.

In it is a vast array of visible aquatic species like frogs and fish, as well as plants that surprisingly can survive with roots that are entirely submerged. Birds fly overhead and mammals sip from the banks, and effluent from all finds its way into the body of water. According to their website, you can contact them at info [at] evofarm [dot] com.

How can I contact them? I am a permaculture person too. Towards sustainability, Best, Dennis. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. So the result is this amazingly fast, healthy growth of plants without soil: The lower tier of plants are mainly cool weather crops, since they get less sunlight than their neighbors upstairs.

Check out the Ourfoods website for more details about how aquaponics works. Tags: Fish , Gardening , greenhouse. Previous Post Experimenting with Biochar. Christy Wilhelmi 7 Oct Reply. Dennis Pilien 6 Oct Reply. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Comment.