Episode: WA Special
Date: 24th January
Story: Backyard Aquaponics
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane

One of the hottest trends sweeping the world today is the 100 mile food source trend, which is all about eating fresh produce within a 100 mile radius of where you live. Trevor discovers the ultimate way to achieve this is by growing organically through aquaponics. A combination of aquaculture and hydroponics guarantees the best quality edible fish as well as fruit and vegetables.
Featured product: Backyard Aquaponics

• Grow Barramundi during the summer or trout in winter using a diet of fish pellets.
• Harvest fresh vegetables and herbs from the backyard organically without artificial fertilisers or pesticides.
• Natural recirculation system to clean fish of excess nutrients which is needed by plants.
• Fish manure delivered to root systems.
• Plants add oxygen back in water and strip water of nutrients- perfect environment for growing fish.
• The plants consume the nutrients, cleaning the water for the fish.
• Clean water is then returned to the fish freshly oxygenated.
• Ideal for disabled people as raised garden beds means no heavy digging and bending.
• No pests can get to your plants.
• No weed problems.
• Uses 90% less water than traditional soil growing methods.
• Most water efficient way of growing vegetables- only water loss through evaporation and transpiration.
• A family sized system can grow 100kg of fish as well as all your fruit and vegetables.
• Consumes less power than a couple of light globes.
• Takes 5 minutes a day to maintain ? just feed the fish.
• Plant and harvest your vegetables and top up the water every week or two.
• Faster maturing plants and no nutrients are lost.
• Systems are clean and neat.
• Comes as complete units- just add fish and plants.
• In as little as four weeks vegetables are ready!
• Backyard Aquaponics in Jandakot WA is the first retail outlet in the world where you see working displays of the various systems including this combination which takes up an area of just 2m x 2m.

Contact
Backyard Aquaponics
Lot 77
Cnr Jandakot Rd & Berrigan Dve
Jandakot WA
Ph 08 9414 9334
www.backyardaquaponics.com