📌 Keywater Fisheries: Where Aquaculture Meets Agriculture
📅 17th October 2024 from 6.30 - 7.30 pm
📍 Boyle Library (Boyle, Co. Roscommon)
⭐ This session is free and all are welcome
An informative session not to be missed!
📣 4 boxes with over 30 kg of frozen redworms fed exclusively on duckweed and fish sludge delivered to the @RyanInstitute
👉 Alex Wan will use them to prepare a special formulation of perch feed that will be tested next year
⭐ Good for the planet and the fish? @projectsafeeu
📣 Delighted to receive the visit of Rachael Wilson from @UlsterUni
👉 She is part of our sister project @Aware_europe which aims to create a new farm-to-fork value chain for European economic growth and urban KM 0 farming
⭐️Collaborations in action thanks to @projectsafeeu
📣 Thanks to our brand new plant-SPA unit, our raspberries and strawberries can enjoy a relaxing experience while they grow!
👉 more seriously: everyone needs a second chance! Reusing is better than throwing away.
Keywater is where nature is 🐟 🌎 ☘
📣These redworms were fed with a mixture of duckweed and solids from fish wastewater and now we have sieved them to separate the substrate
👉They will now be used to prepare a specially formulated fish food with a low environmental impact
⭐All this thanks to @projectsafeeu
📣 Have you ever thought about freezing your fish wastewater?
👉in this way we allow it to slowly release the nutrients into our aquaponics unit as high levels of Ammonia can be harmful to plants and damage their roots system
⭐ All this thanks to @projectsafeeu
📣 Here is just a video of our perch (Perca fluviatilis) handfed in one of the outside ponds.
👉 By growing them outdoor we allow nature to help us achieve the finest quality fish.
Keywater is where nature is 🐟 🌎 ☘
📢Here at Keywater Fisheries we are growing all our vegetables soil-less by using a plastic media as a support for the plants growth and fish wastewater as fertiliser 🐟 🌎 ☘
Advantages 👇
- lower disease risk
- less water
- no chemicals/pesticides
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📣 It's harvest time for our radishes!
👉This fast growing root is maturing very quickly in our aquaponics unit, just 6 weeks from seed to harvest!
⚡️An ideal plant for the removal of Phosphate from fish wastewater🐟 🌎 ☘
👉 All this thanks to the @projectsafeeu
📣 At Keywater we reduce the footprint by turning the fish wastewater into edible plants
Take a look at the 3 week growth rate we achieved in our aquaponics greenhouse👇
This win-win approach is good for the environment the farmers🐟 🌍 ☘
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📢Here is our first harvest of red worms grown in our vermiculture unit by using duckweed and fish waste as source of food
⚡️The frozen worms will then be used as a new ingredient in an innovative fish feed formulation
👉All this thanks to the @projectsafeeu#horizoneurope
📢📢Despite unfavorable winter conditions, including the two recent storms 🌪️⛈️, our watercress is growing in the experimental greenhouse! all this thanks to the fish wastewater as fertiliser and @projectsafeeu 👇
📢📢Autumn has begun and the temperature is dropping 🍂but the plants in our greenhouse are still performing very well and are all ready for the final harvest 🌱 Soon it will be time to prepare for planting a winter crop ☃️ All these experiments are thanks to @projectsafeeu
📢📢It is harvest time for our aquaponics hops ⚡️thanks to the @projectsafeeu we have the opportunity to further explore the potential of hops to absorb the nutrients present in the fish wastewater from our ras system🐟🌱🍻
📢Not only aquaponics⚡️
Thanks to the @projectsafeeu we are growing redworm 🪱 using duckweed and fish wastewater sludge! When the redworm are ready they will be used as a replacement for fishmeal in the production of a sustainable experimental fish feed 🐟🌍🌱
📢📢 watercress story --> three weeks of growth after transplanting! All of our greenhouse vegetables are grown using fish wastewater from our RAS system as part of the @projectsafeeu 🌱🌍🐟
📢📢First lettuce harvest of the year! All the lettuces and herbs in the pictures are grown in our greenhouse as part of the @projectsafeeu, using the fish wastewater as fertiliser in a perfect example of circular economy 🐟🌍🌱
This morning we enjoyed hearing from farm manager Matteo Capodicasa who introduced our teams to @KeywaterF#perch farm explaining their current waste water treatment set-up & their use of #aquaponics to grow plants from the fish waste water from RAS.
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