Some New Videos from Our Homestead
First up is this 20 minute property walk explaining our new plant starting system, new timber frame pond and wicking bed installs, indoor aquaponics, grow bucket system, updates on the bantam hens and more. Here are links to the items featured in this video as well
- 45 Watt Grow Light – http://amzn.to/2yu4ZOT
600 Watt Grow Light – http://amzn.to/2yts8ks
Grow Tent – http://amzn.to/2B2ku36
Stock Tanks – http://bit.ly/2AsAvhX
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Next up is a video I made to better explain the second segment of the video above. It is best to at least watch that segment first to better understand it if you haven’t already done so.
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Next up is a video of me but not on my channel. Justin Rhode brought his 50 state permaculture bus tour to Nine Mile Farm to learn about my duck operation. I have to say he did a fantastic job with this 16 minute mini documentary.
Loving the videos Jack. Thanks for taking the time to produce them. Great ideas.
Not sure I understand the plans for the new timber frame pond with surrounding wicking beds. Are you using the sump to keep the wicking beds at that comfortable height? If the wicking beds drain into a sump which is lower than the timber frame pond, a failure of the sump pump or float switch would allow the timber pond to empty water down to the level of the pump in the timber pond (1/2 of the water) and perhaps damage that pump.
Okay as I said what you need to understand is that this system is MORE not less resilient this way. Say the pump in the pond fails, the wicking beds could sit there for a week or more unaffected because well they are wicking beds kept full in a continuous flow. The Ebb and flow beds fill from the pump in the sump, so they keep going. Yes this is bad for the pond but on shear volume it will be fine until fixed, we will likely have O2 pumping to it as well.
Now say the sump pump fails, well we will have a second back up cheapo pump in there set higher, like a 75 dollar harbor freight one that will never run unless the good one fails. Further even if we didn’t do that, if the sump failed it would over flow until the level of the pond dropped to the float switch, in which case you are in the same place you would be with one pump, its a problem but no larger of a problem.