{"id":21378,"date":"2016-07-05T02:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T01:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/?p=21378"},"modified":"2016-07-04T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:44:44","slug":"the-fish-from-my-garden-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/news\/the-fish-from-my-garden-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The fish from my garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hydroponics + Aquaculture = Aquaponics.<\/strong> The first ECO123 workshop took place over a long weekend in Caldas de Monchique and was attended by twelve participants from all over Portugal. The trainers, Jo\u00e3o Cotter from Lisbon and Jo\u00e3o Vidal Lemos from Aveiro, started with a short theoretical presentation in the hotel and then all the participants moved from the seminar room to the garden. There, they inaugurated the two-by-five-metre plant pond. The first lettuce, courgette, tomato and melon seedlings were placed in the water in small baskets. The first fish from local waters were four small largemouth bass (achig\u00e3) that were released into the round water tank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21365 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/eco123.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1210828-T.jpg\" alt=\"Introdu\u00e7\u00e3o te\u00f3rica no hotel\" width=\"1014\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eco123.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1210828-T.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/eco123.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1210828-T-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aquaponics is a farming system that uses a closed biological water and nutritional cycle. The excrement from the fish is channelled to the plants, which need it as natural fertiliser. Four tanks are used for this purpose: a pond for the fish, an intermediate tank with a mechanical filter for eliminating the natural solids, the plant pond, and a tank with the biological filter for separating nitrogen with a small water pump, which pumps the water that has been cleaned by the plants back to the fish tank.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21362 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/eco123.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monchique-com-2-dornas.jpg\" alt=\"Desenho t\u00e9cnico do sistema de Aquaponia instalado\" width=\"999\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eco123.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monchique-com-2-dornas.jpg 999w, https:\/\/eco123.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Monchique-com-2-dornas-768x454.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a lot of interest shown by those taking part, and many questions were raised. The discussions focused on both commercial and biological issues. However, the main question was how to give the plants active protection if they were infested by pests. Jo\u00e3o Lemos, who has been feeding himself through aquaponics for five years, clearly explained what reactions could occur if the vegetables growing in the water tank were sprayed with pesticides or herbicides, for example. The whole system, including all the fish, would be quickly destroyed. Aquaponics is based on a natural balance, in terms of the pH value, as well as nitrates and nitrites, he said, adding that this requires daily work with fish and plants. An exchange of experiences and a further workshop for advanced participants are planned for next spring.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Uwe Heitkamp | <strong>Photos:<\/strong> Jo\u00e3o Vidal Lemos<\/p>\n<div class=\"box info  alignleft\" style=\"width:100%\"><div class=\"box-inner-block\"><i class=\"fa tie-shortcode-boxicon\"><\/i>\n\t\t\tinfo@eco123.info\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydroponics + Aquaculture = Aquaponics. The first ECO123 workshop took place over a long weekend in Caldas de Monchique and was attended by twelve participants from all over Portugal. The trainers, Jo\u00e3o Cotter from Lisbon and Jo\u00e3o Vidal Lemos from Aveiro, started with a short theoretical presentation in the hotel and then all the participants &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3715,"featured_media":21374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The fish from my garden - Eco123<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eco123.info\/en\/news\/the-fish-from-my-garden-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The fish from my garden - Eco123\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hydroponics + Aquaculture = Aquaponics. 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