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When you are interested in pet fish and gardening, aquaponics is the answer to growing you own food.

Everyone has a right to healthy food. Food free from pesticides and fungicides.

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Aquaponics is....

Aquaponics is a sustainable, living, freshwater ecosystem in a man-made (or woman-made) structure where we grow healthy food for our families in any space.

The ecosystem involves fish (pets or edible fish) that produce fertiliser for the veggies, and the veggies filter the water for the fish and of course nitrifying bacteria that make this whole ecosystem work, just like in nature.

This all happens within our man-made ecosystem in a natural and harmonious way that is great for the environment, as well as your back pocket.

Aquaponics is a sustainable, living, freshwater ecosystem in a man-made (or woman-made) structure where we grow healthy food for our families in any space.


The ecosystem involves fish (pets or edible fish) that produce fertiliser for the veggies, and the veggies filter the water for the fish and of course nitrifying bacteria that make this whole ecosystem work, just like in nature.

This all happens within our man-made ecosystem in a natural and harmonious way that is great for the environment, as well as your back pocket.

Here's Why Aquaponics Can Work For You:

  • Sustainably grow healthy veggies with ease

  • Uses 10x less water that soil gardens

  • Grow veggies 4x faster than soil gardens

  • Bursting with flavour

  • No pesticides or wax affecting your health. Just real food continuous crop, no waiting a month every time for seeds to grow

  • Organic food at your fingertips, no needing to travel to various stores for healthy food.

  • Minimal maintenance (just 5 mins a day!)

  • Easy to build and maintain

  • Fresh healthy veg at your fingertips - No need to go to store

  • Fast, delicious, healthy food at your fingertips

  • Protect the environment

  • Reduce your grocery bill by having fresh, healthy food constantly

  • The joy of having fish to relax and watch

When Successful Soil Gardening Relies On:

Lots of Space

Regular Manual Fertilising

Regular Watering

And the Soil needs a LOT of Work

VS

Aquaponics Isn't Limited By These Things. It Has:

Constant Fertiliser From the Fish

Constant Water in a Closed Loop System

And Thrives in Any Space, including Small Spaces

The Best Part is that it is COMPLETELY ORGANIC

When You Are Limited By...

  • If we rent the landlord may not approve

  • There is often a huge outlay of money that people don't mention for soil gardening

  • Ongoing costs of container gardening if you live in small spaces

  • You may not be able to dig in the soil, get on your knees to do things, bend over, or grip things with your hands

Learning To Build An Aquaponics System, With Our Successful Blueprint Will...

Increase your confidence

Helps to calm you down when things feel overwhelming

Helps to build new skills

Helps you to learn to grow your own food

Be Successful, Start with the Right Knowledge

Garden Therapy with Aquaponics

The relaxation you feel when your garden is well known. Aquaponics brings a deeper sense of calm as it connects you with the relaxation of fish as well.

Seeing the miracles of nature happening within your aquaponics system gives you a sense of wonder and excitement.

As everything about aquaponics is based on balance, it gives you the physical representation of balance to connect to when you feel overwhelmed by life.

I use aquaponics as a form of garden therapy to help me manage PTSD,

anxiety, depression, and autism.

Have you been thinking about a deeper meaning in life?

Aquaponics can show you this perfectly!

Check out the article below on how I manage my anxiety with aquaponics:

Managing My "Anxiety Octopus" with Aquaponics

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Simple to follow videos showing you what aquaponics is, and how it works including:

  • How the different elements work together

  • Basic designs (including pros and cons of each)

  • Where to start

  • Parts needed

  • Filtration

  • Creating the Ecosystem (colonising with nitrifying bacteria)

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  • It's an online program that you can watch in your own time, your own safe space when you are in the right space.

  • It gently pushes you out of your comfort zone to learn something new, gain new skills, in a time and place that feels comfortable for you

  • You don't need to force yourself to function to fit in with someone else's time

  • You get to be active within the online Facebook group when you choose

  • It's self paced so you choose when you watch it and when you build it

  • With the help of your support worker, it is easy to maintain once built

Helping with these goals

Development of daily living skills

Motor Skills

Executive function

Ability to follow instructions

Maintain attention for task completion

Independent living skills by growing food

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Everything we do in life is a learned skill, we are not born knowing how to garden, knowing how to have food security easily.

Your Simple Courtyard Aquaponics System

  • Your A-Z, step-by-step blueprint to build and look after your own aquaponics system.

  • Getting the maximum amount of veggies growing in your small space.

  • Using less water to grow healthy, luscious veggies that you didn't think was possible.

  • Knowing what is on, or not on your food.

  • Having the convenience of walking out into your courtyard, and getting food for dinner.

  • Saving money by growing what you love to eat, when you didn't think you'd be able to.

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A few words from Candy...

"From my Welfare and Youth Work, I've been passionate about helping people to live the best life they could.

Then professionally trained within aquaculture, and commercial aquaponics my passion turned to helping all people have access to healthy food.

As someone with autism, PTSD and Anxiety disorders, I know the challenges that arise in trying to learn new things, and the desire to achieve your goals.

Now, my passion is to break it all down and give you the simple, easiest version to start your food security and aquaponics journey ~ and to help you build your capacity to do this. "

What others have said

General Frequently Asked Questions

Is Aquaponics Ethical?

The best type of aquaponics is when we look after the fish. With anything, there are good apples and bad apples. Candy has formal training within aquaculture and aquatic husbandry, her ethics and integrity is based on animal welfare. This means to teach you how to be ethical with your aquatic husbandry. To not over stock or crowd your fish, but find the balance needed to maintain your aquaponics systems, in a healthy way for the fish.

Is Aquaponics Sustainable?

Aquaponics is the most sustainable way we have of gardening these days. Our soil is depleted and often contaminated and needed rest and rejuvenation, gardening adds to its stress. With many areas experiencing water restrictions, droughts, weather extremes that the soil cannot manage, aquaponics is closed loop and not impacting the environment. It helps to remove the stresses. Aquaponics is a man-made (or woman-made) ecosystem, replicating nature. Not to be confused with hydroponics, which is an artificial setup using synthetic nutrients to grow veggies. No fish or no ecosystem.

How Does Aquaponics Save Water?

Being a closed loop system, water is constantly flowing through each section of the aquaponics system, and not running down a drain. The only times you need to top up your aquaponics system, is for water loss due to evapouration and the water used by the plants. No more wasting water. Recycled and filled with fertiliser from the fish waste that the veggies use.

What Veggies Can I Grow?

Almost any type of veggies can be grown within aquaponics, including root crops and even small fruit trees. You need to build your aquaponics system to cater for these veggies and fruit trees, but it is possible. From broccoli to turnips with everything in between. While you CAN grow almost anything, a pearl of wisdom for you ~ don't grow anything from the mint family. It is more invasive within aquaponics than it is the soil, and will clog your plumbing.

I've Never Kept Fish, Can I Do Aquaponics?

Absolutely! Everything we do in life, is a learned skill. That includes caring for fish. We learn how to do it. Starting off small, with fish that are cheaper is a good way to start if you are nervous, and within time you will start shooting for the stars with your desire for relaxation with your fish.

How Big is it?

The hard question to answer ~ but also the exciting one. You aquaponics system can be as big or small as you like. With the fundamentals in place, you can build something for your desk or kitchen bench, a feature for your loungeroom, fill up your entire spare bedroom, your courtyard area, or build it to feed your family and the neighbours too! You build it to the space you have, and the size you want to give it. You are not offered a kit, you are taught here how to work out the size that will work for you, and how to adapt parts to your space.

How Easy is it to Build?

Keeping aquaponics simple, easy and broken down is my desire for you. Keeping aquaponics simple is the easiest thing you can do. Stay in the flow, and the the ecosystem do the work. Many people tend to complicate aquaponics by altering layouts, adding extra bits, which is fine (I do this too), but it tends to complicate it more. Aquaponics at its roots (pardon the pun), can be extremely simple to build and simpler to run. Especially when you start small and learn how it works.

How Much Cost to Run?

The main ongoing cost is the water pump, especially for smaller systems. The larger the system, the larger the pump which will increase the cost. The small Courtyard Aquaponics System water pump costs me $10 per year to run. You can check a watts calculator to see what it will cost. Costs of seeds, fish food, and fish if you plan to eat your fish. However, if they are your 'friends', then a one off fish cost is it.

How Much Cost to Build?

The smaller size system that you start with, the cheaper it will be. You can also use recycled materials to be more sustainable and eco-conscious, as well as save money. If this reason, it is hard to give a price as we don't sell kits. It is DIY so you can choose the parts you want, with some guidance. Every aquaponics system I have ever built (15 years worth), have paid for itself so many times over that I've lost count, and I usually have veggies spare for the neighbours.

What Type of Fish Can Use?

Aquaponics is a freshwater ecosystem, so you need to use freshwater fish. If you have your aquaponics system outside, choose a fish that is local to your area, otherwise they may be affected by temperature issues. If inside, then there are so many options. With the ornamental fish, there are so many options available from guppies to crayfish.

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