[Sc-aquaponics] FW: Friendly Aquaponics Special Newsletter #27

[Tiu, Laura]

One of our Ohio Growers is now an affiliate of Friendly Aquaponics.  Congratulations Max and Marilynn!
Laura

Laura Tiu, PhD Aquaculture Extension Specialist
740-289-2071 x.121 Office | 800-297-2072 x. 121 Office
tiu.2 at osu.edu

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Subject: Fw: Friendly Aquaponics Special Newsletter #27

Friehds
Here is a newsletter from our Aquaponics  trainers from Hawaii,
for added intrest scroll down and find a link to the microsystem affilates,
click on the Ohio link,
Here We Go!
Max

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Friendly Aquaponics
Special Newsletter

Number 27October 23rd,  2013

[Images from our farmily aquaponics farm]

Aloha Friend!

In the past when we've sent out newsletters on Fridays, we've missed people somehow. So, we're sending out the exact same newsletter we posted last Friday to give everyone a chance to purchase our new book at the discounted pre-sale price. That's why this looks familiar! (Then we'll get back to finishing our series on "Energy-Efficient Greenhouses" in the next newsletter).

We are tremendously excited to announce our brand new, practical book, Aquaponics - The Easy Way! is ready for sale. It's very different from any of the other aquaponic gardening books; it does not just give you a list of how many different ways you can do aquaponics, which leaves you wondering what to do next. Instead we show you how to actually build and operate three differently-sized, fully-functional aquaponics systems!

If you're interested in learning more about aquaponics, or would like to introduce someone else to Aquaponics, there is simply no better book. We cover the chemistry, biology, and technology of aquaponics in a clear yet scientific manner, based on six years of practical experience operating a large commercial aquaponics farm, with 100% practical applications.

But you don't need to understand these things in order to be successful with your aquaponic garden. This is because our book explains the "nuts and bolts" of aquaponic gardening in clear, concise language so that you understand how it works, and what to do, and you can all duplicate our success with it.

This is not a "look how much we know" book; it's a "look how easily you can do it" book. It's a book designed for your personal success building and operating a small aquaponic garden. We also detail easy "next steps" you can take if your ambition leads you beyond your first small garden.

What's most important to the newcomer on a budget, it contains complete plans, materials lists, and instructions for building 3 different sized aquaponics systems (3.5, 12, and 18 square feet) from common materials purchased at your local Home Depot or Lowes, plus a couple items from PetCo. An additional benefit is that our economical systems work better than others costing hundreds or thousands of dollars more.

While our publishing wizard Susanne wraps up the final formatting on the last few chapters, we're offering a presale discount of 33% on the book if you purchase now. Although it will be $29.95 when finished, you can purchase now for only $19.95, and it will download automatically to you when finished.

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Our "In The Farmily" column today is Lucky's story. Today is his 11th birthday, and we're SO lucky to have him; you'll understand after reading his story. Really!

We have a new "mini-column" called "Fish Bites" with technical information and supplier information we recently developed.

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One of Ben and Alysha Godfrey's aquaponics systems in a greenhouse in Milam County, Texas. I can't wait to taste their system water!
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Another of Ben and Alysha's aquaponic greenhouses.
And now, in a different state entirely:

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Tim drinking water from one of Randy and Katie's aquaponics systems at a Tennessee training. He says, "I've been doing this for six years; I'm certain the food from these systems is safe and healthy."

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Randy and Tim showing attendees at a Tennessee training how easy it is to use a DO (dissolved oxygen) meter to measure oxygen levels in the vegetable troughs.

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Thousands of inch-long "fifty-cent" baby tilapia from our "backyard" hatchery.

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"In The Farmily: Lucky's Story, Part 1"

We’ve always wanted kids, and in a lot of ways it’s good that we didn’t get an earlier start; or we’d have twenty five now instead of just four. Susanne was 37 and I was 48 when we met in 2000. We didn’t so much “decide” to have a family as ignore all the fears and social conditioning we heard all our lives that said: “Women have kids when they’re under 30, and couples have families when they’re in their ‘20’s and ‘30s”. I’m glad we did!

We were in our first “real” house when Susanne gave birth to Lucky; we’d had Jack (a year and a half older) while living in a rented studio apartment on the second floor of an old warehouse (how we got Susanne’s “birth tub” up the stairs and filled it without collapsing the old warehouse’s creaky floor is another story!).

Susanne had liked the tub idea with Jack, so I put in a jacuzzi tub on the back porch of our new house. Our “new” house had been built in 1938, but that’s yet another story; we’d fixed it up quite nicely, and at ages 39 and 50, respectively, were just another young married couple in their first home, having their second child.

Lucky came along, and our friend and midwife Nina attended the birth. Everything went well, and soon we had a new baby boy, ten pounds one ounce, right out where we could see him. We oohed and aahed, and held Baby Jack up so he could see the new baby.

Nina measured and weighed, and listened to him with a stethoscope; she did what’s called “the well baby exam”. When she finished, she turned to us with a worried look, and we went “what?”.

She'd heard a sound that indicated Lucky’s lungs weren’t functioning very well. She said: “we need to get your baby to the hospital to be checked!”, and explained that Lucky had “meconium aspiration syndrome”.

It means Lucky had pooped and breathed some of it in while in the birth canal. Babies normally breathe the amniotic fluid of their mother’s womb in and out during their development, and are born with some of this fluid in their lungs; it doesn’t harm them at all.

But they are not designed to breathe in the meconium, which is also known as “baby’s first poop”; a sticky black tar-like substance. Many babies have meconium aspiration syndrome and aren’t affected much because they have a slight case of it.

Lucky had an extremely severe case of it, and his life was in danger. Without spoiling the story, I can say that Nina’s training and professionalism allowed her to correctly diagnose this situation; and things would have turned out very differently without her.

(to be continued)

Aloha, Tim....
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