Just a few days ago we actually ate our first herb from our system and made a small recording of our fish and how big they are getting and therefore thought it would be a good time to reflect on the journey.
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| Our first harvest of cilantro |
I came across the aquaponics concepts a few years ago and had determined to build a system, sometime....
My church, Rancho Community, has a working farm in Rainbow, CA that contributes thousands of pounds of produce to the Temecula/Murrieta Rescue Mission and Orange County Rescue Mission. I thought that a commercial aquaponics system on site could provide vegetables and fruit year round to RCC. The farm does not provide produce year round.
So before last summer 2011 I felt the Lord put it on my heart to share this with my pastor/friend Don Hallworth. We had a good meeting and he saw the vision. We left it out there to see what the Lord would do. Thanks Don for the continued prayer and support.
Shortly after I decided to build a family system to test the feasibility of a full scale project. I decided to blog my adventures mostly for documentation. At the top of my blog the tab "About" was the initial vision goals and post #1.
Just Do It......
Yes, the title of my post. That is the idea. Just do it! I believe sometimes we have these wonderful plans, goals, ideas that never come to fruition because we hyper analyze the details. Analysis of Paralysis. We never know where a journey will take us or not take us until we go.
There has been so much promise and new direction from this initial idea. Projects at school, potential new business ideas, and just plain mental relaxation Yes, this project and blog helps to release the stress and exhaustion of my profession.
So, I encourage all of you... Do not over think, just do it.... Let the details work themselves out in the process. Do not worry about the end because it is the journey that SHOULD be most rewarding.
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| Fish introduced 12/30/2011 (2") |
Watch the video below to see how much they have grown.
Video taken on April 22nd, 2012 (big fish at 1:13)
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| March 11th, 2012 |
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| 48 days later, April 29th, 2012 |
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| 48 days later, April 29th, 2012 |
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| April 15th, 2012 |
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| 14 days later - April 29th, 2012 |
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