By the time most people stumble onto a really good course, the show has moved on and access is closed. The Aquaponics Design Course, taught by Australian Aquaponics kit builder and teacher Murray Hallam is such a fine course. Ecofilms shoots and edits Murray’s training videos and...

One of the great things about running an Aquaponics system is how robust and healthy your plants should look. Yet, we’ve seen a number of systems where the plants looks stunted and wilted with that characteristic mottled mineral deficient appearance on the leaves that reveals the plant...

  Just visiting Tom Kendall’s farm in Kin-Kin, Queensland, Australia. Shot this on Sunday. He’s got great infrastructure,  such a wonderful farm. We even got to see a new baby goat being born. Visit Tom Kendall’s website at http://www.permaculturesunshinecoast.org for more...

Our aquaponics system is now approaching its fourth year since we installed it here at Ecofilms and over the years a multitude of vegetables and fish have gone through it. Countless tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, lettuce and fish have been grown from seed and fingerling, right out to maturity to...

The New Zealand Government have got behind a $250,000 aid project and have built a trial aquaponics system on the Cook island of Rarotonga , located in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. Many of the Islanders have limited access to fresh water and lacked suitable soil for producing food. ...

Recently a friend was telling me about how difficult it was to grown strawberries in his aquaponics system. He didn’t have any success in growing them and was wondering if he was doing something wrong or indeed, if this aquaponics thing was over-hyped? He didn’t have a green thumb...

Here’s a great idea for a Chicken coop built to fit the dimensions of straw bales. A simple four post construction with a raised floor and tin roof is all you need. Both sides of the chicken coop have a temporary straw-bale walls that keeps the coop warm in winter and cool in summer....

  Radial Flow Settlers are a type of filter that removes all the gunk and fish poop that occurs in a recirculated aquaponics system. Handy if you have overstocked your fish tank or over-fed the fish as the water quality suddenly gets murky and is less than pristine.   How does it...

From the land that can miniaturize everything, Japan is on its way to revolutionize the way people grow food in small apartments. This miniaturized aquaponics system could double as a home aquarium system that also grows a few lettuce heads in its circular floating raft system. All powered by...

A year after Murray Hallam revealed the plans to build your own aquaponics system in his popular DIY Aquaponics DVD, the photos from aquaponics enthusiasts are now flooding in. Built from easy to get tote tanks (IBC or International Bulk Containers) people all around the world have taken out...

CEREs in Melbourne Australia are looking for a super motivated and entrepreneurial urban farmer to run their small commercial Aquaponic Food Hub system as part of their Food Hub urban farming research project. Do you have what it takes to run a small hi-tec urban farm as a professional farmer...

How can barren fields, degraded forests and grazing lands be reforested without planting a single tree? Is it possible? Well yes, according to Tony Rinaudo and his work with World Vision in regenerating over 30,000 acres in West Africa all with the aid of just a simple pocket knife and a...