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Aquaponics Overview / First Phase
The Oregon Truffle Tryst Farm started with an Aquaponics system whose tanks and troughs were built from plans obtained from Friendly Aquaponics of Hawaii, and housed in a self designed greenhouse building. The first phase was built to gain experience with the setup and daily maintenance of a vegetable aquaponics system. It consists of 256 square feet of growing troughs and several plywood/epoxy tanks (4'x4'x4' and 4'x4'x8' fish tanks, a 2'x4'x4' biofilter tank and a 2'x4'x4' vet tank) giving a water volume of approximately 3000 gallons. After somewhat severe problems with the newly purchased fish in startup mode, it was functioning well. However, a recurrance of fish problems ensued and our nutrients also seem to fluctuate more than I'd expect. Overall we are still producing quality crops but our production has been entirely too inconsistent even though it gets better every year :).


Second Construction Phase
The second phase plan was expected to approximately double the growing area and include the construction of a small walk-in cooler using an air conditioner and the StorItCold CoolBot. Construction was delayed due to the need for more research into an improved greenhouse design that is more easily insulated on winter nights while still maximizing our limited winter light (hence the quantum PAR meter). The cooler is complete and functional while the aquaponics system has not been increased in size.

We have added additional settling filter tanks in the system, and found out that the typical greenhouse two-layer plastic with air pumped between the layers has been sufficient insulation for the most part. During particularly cold spells we have occasionally added a 1000 watt bucket heater to help maintain water temps for the fish when the water temps are headed below fifty degrees. We also have two solar water heater panels that we were usng to maintain water temps in winter, but found the copper piping to be detrimental to the fish. We are attempting to use a stainless steel heat exchange coil to eliminate that problem.

The aqua house plastic fabric finally needed replacing (after about ten years, end of 2022). There were some building design flaws that allowed too much moisture to accumulate on the wood framing, which also required replacement. So we took this 'opportunity' to rebulid the aqua house. It will have much larger vent areas, much larger main wood beams on the ends, aluminum sheeting to cover most of the wood where moisture accumulates, and a bit of rewiring for all of the sensors.

As the Aquaponics is only part of our overalll farm plan, we have improved in other areas such as the installation of solar panels and the start of a large quantity of tea seedlings.

As a (very) long range plan, we are considering clearing an area of the hillside behind the residence for some expanded Aquaponics construction. An alternate plan to create some plots of tea up there did not do well as our first two planted areas were decimated by voles or gophers.



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Merchants of Poison Report final 12/05/2022

(with 579 cited references)


Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php    

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

Song and Lyrics © 2010 by Michael Adams, All Rights Reserved

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