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Here’s a short slideshow that I created for a Thanksgiving presentation that I made at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa in 2010. This slideshow chronicles the early days of our aquaponics experiments as well as explains our vision for outreach to the world through agricultural missions work. Thank you so much for your time.

God Bless you!

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Here’s a video update for the Calvary Chapel Aquaponics facility on Oct. 3rd, 2010.

The fish are thriving, and continue to multiply in great numbers. We’re consistently moving the fish up our crude grading system as they grow, allowing space in our sumps for the new hatchlings to get a well protected start. Once the fish can eat an entire pellet of food, the growth seems exponential. The plants are also thriving on account of all of that ready-made nutrient brought right to the rootbase by our flood and drain irrigation setup. Things are really cranking!

I leave on wednesday morning for Uganda to look at 3 potential sites to apply an aquaponic approach to food generation. I don’t know how often I will be able make updates over the course of the next 3 weeks, but I plan on cueing a few automated posts for when I’m gone. Please continue to check back for updates, and pass on our site to anyone that might be interested in this type of aid work. Also, please pray for safe travels for our team, and also pray that we are met with great opportunities to bring blessings to the people of Uganda through this wonderful form of food production!
To God be the glory.

Thanks for tuning in……until next time,
Jacob Harman
John 21:15

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Here a quick little video to explain our twist on the famous bell-siphon irrigation technique.   I’ll probably make a more detailed video soon without all the moving around and glare from the sun.

The pipes are all 1.5in ABS.  Our beds are 16ft long by 4ft wide, and about 10in deep.

Take care, Thanks for watching, and happy farming!

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Here’s the latest from the Calvary Chapel aquaponics project.  We take a quick lap around the farm to see the improvements we’ve made on the lids, the progress of the hatchlings, and also a quick lesson on pinching out tomatoes.

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Here’s the first in a series of retrospective videos from the previous season, and the transitional phase between then and now. Hopefully soon I will get caught up and back in sync with “real time”. Enjoy.
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Here’s a short clip of Rebecca McIntosh and I turning the grow beds between seasons. We are getting rid of any old root matter and organic waste from the previous plants, and getting the growbed ready for the juvenile plants that will be transferred in here very soon.

Often times (especially with really densely growing vegetables like tomato plants) it’s a good idea to clear out the beds so that no old organic matter will build up and block the flow of the water as it drains out of your growbeds. It’s not necessarily imperative: some folks like to take the “hands free- let nature take it’s course” approach to aquaponic gardening and that’s fabulous. I think this technique is particularily advantageous if you have a mature growbed stocked with worms to further digest and decompose any loose organic matter that may find it’s way into the beds.

My beds are not really that old (coming up on 2 years) and I do not have the advantage of a thriving vermicompost community residing in my growbeds. I also want to take as much advantage of my flood and drain setup as possible, and that would be to maximize the amount flow moving through my growbeds- exposing the roots to to as much air and fresh nutrients as each cycle can provide.

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My apologies for the extended delay of the video updates.  I’ve been so very busy with the hands-on work at the farm, I haven’t really had a chance to settle in and get on these computer updates.  Thank you so much for your patience.

I am putting together a comprehensive set of updates that will catalog our journey through the end of last season until now.  There are so many great things to report; I’m eager to share the blessings and opportunities that have come our way since I last updated.  For now, I’d like to just post this quick video from today while I organize the photos, videos, and information from the last few months.

Thanks for watching!

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Lloyd Tanaka keeping it reel at the Calvary Chapel Aquaponics project.

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Pina and Marilyn stopped by the CCCM aquaponics project and did some grocery shoppin’

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Here’s a quick video update on the status of our fish on Feb 1st, 2010. Everybody is happily swimming, eating, growing, and producing fertilizer for plants. I’m pretty sure we’ll be having fish tacos in the next month. Yum!

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Here’s a quick video update of the status of the CCCM Aquaponics Project on Feb 1st, 2010. We are currently between seasons, and I have recently culled out the last of the romaine lettuce, various tomato varieties, peppers, eggplant, and some other assorted veggies in order to get a jump on our summer crop.

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