Colle Davis' 10 foot x 16 foot Portable Farms(TM) Aquaponics System offers 40 square feet of grow tray space, and a 200 gallon fish tank.
This small farm produces
500 vegetables and 200 pounds of fish per year.
A view of the interior of Colle Davis' Portable Farms(TM) Aquaponics System
in his own backyard.
This gravel-filled grow tray is currently growing celery, bib lettuce, purple cabbage, bok choy, yellow squash, zucchini, and Swiss chard. These plants are currently only five weeks old (as of January 3, 2010). Come back often for updated photos.
Bib lettuce and Swiss Chard - 4 weeks of growth
Colle Davis holds three heads of butter crunch lettuce at 40 days of growth.
Cabbage in foreground, Brussel Sprouts behind
This is a photograph of the insulated box surrounding the 200 gallon fish tank.
The friendly Tilapia fish swim between Colle's fingers. These fish are 3" in length.
They will ready to harvest when they're 11" in length (6 1/2 to 7 1/2 months).
Happy Tilapia, smiling for the camera. They look like koi fish, but they're not, they're Tilapia. This California Hybrid Male Tilapia comes in many many colors. If you look closely, you'll see gray, black, spotted and peach colored fish.
