Hello this is Jonathan from Melbourne aquaponics I'm just making this video as
an introduction to my channel this channel is a channel about aquaponics
so fo the ones who don't know what is aquaponics here behind me I got one
aquaponic setup so basically we use a whole ecosystem to produce some food and
this ecosystem is composed of three main parts we got first some fish so here you
see a bench so if I lift the bench underneath I got some some fish I got a
fish tank with some fish and on top of this bench
I got a grow bed and in this grow bed we got some media, some rocks on the
surface of those rocks we got some bacteria so the bacteria are the second
component of this ecosystem and then we got some vegetables here. the three parts
of the ecosystem are going to live together I'm going to feed the fish when
we feed the fish they poo into the water which produces some nitrogen. This
nitrogen is going to be transformed into a form of nitrogen that is available
usable by the plants by the vegetables that are here and the vegetables are going
to grow, they are going to consume the nitrogen and the water goes back into
the fish tank and it's purified so the fish are able to live or as in very
clean conditions and we are able to produce an amazing fish and collect some
amazing vegetables you know here I got nice chilli we got some Tomatoes a lot
of leafy vegetables so that's a principle of aquaponics and if you're
interested in becoming a bit more self efficient if you're interested into
quality food into health into tasty food and into local production I believe this
channel is for you so my values are: protecting the environment and producing
our own food because I think the current food system is not working at all I
think we are doing some crazy bad things for us we are eating a lot of pesticide
eating lot of bad food eat some food that is a very low in terms of nutrients
and I also believe that we are creating generating a lot of pollution in this
planet to produce of food while we can all produce a bit of
food at home and for some of us we can produce a large quantity of food we can
even share it with our friends and our neighbors so if everyone is doing a
little bit we can really change the world but also having an aquaponics at
home it's not only a question of producing food and the food consumption
it's also a question of having fun because here you're going to work with a
whole ecosystem and we talked about three parts of the ecosystem that are the
fish, the bacteria and the vegetables and the plants but you also got a lot of
insects around and lot of birds and a lot of life that is around lizards and
it's it's a full ecosystem that is going to bring a lot of Life a lot of animals
around your house so it's a feature by itself it can look
amazing it brings a lot of life around it's a very good topic of conversation
when you got friends coming around they don't know what it is or you can explain
them it's it's really fun it's a super tool if you want to teach your kids
anything about biology mathematics physics and a lot of other topics so I
am completely passionate about aquaponics I think it's a fantastic
solution to produce your own food so if you like it if you want to learn about
aquaponics this channel is definitely for you I give a lot of advice about
aquaponics how to build your aquaponics setup by yourself we got a free guide
that you can download from the description of this video and also we
got a website about aquaponics and we try to help everyone to build an aquaponics
setup and produce his own food at home wherever you are in the planet you can
do it everywhere if you are in a cold country in a warm country you go the
possibility to build an aquaponics setup to save a lot of water a lot of power
a lot of electricity consumption to produce some amazing tasty and healthy
food where you live so I think that's a solution it's part of permaculture
movement where we work with nature and not against nature okay I'm gonna keep
this video short so I'm gonna stop here but feel free to look at all the videos
that we got into this channel they are all designed to help you to produce food
where you live and to stop ruining the planet because if you work with nature
you will see that everything is working by itself we just have to manage few
things but that does just fantastic so I hope you're gonna like this channel you
can give a like to this video you can subscribe to the channel and don't forget
to get your free gift to build your own aquaponic setup bye bye