There have been over 300 different varieties of plants that have been
tested that can be grown organically in a Portable Farms™ Aquaponics System.
UPDATE: TOUR A PORTABLE FARMS™ AQUAPONICS SYSTEM in North San Diego County, California, with 300′ of grow space in a 24’ x 46’ greenhouse which easily feeds 12 adults all the nutritious and organic food they need to remain healthy FOREVER. These adults will need to ‘grow their own’ or purchase root vegetables (potatoes, carrots, onions, etc.) and grains which are not grown in Portable Farms. To book your tour, please CLICK HERE for more information.
Read about the Yield and Return on Investment for planting, growing and selling organic tomatoes.
Read about the Yield and Return on Investment for planting, growing and selling organic zucchini.
Read about the Yield and Return on Investment for planting, growing and selling organic peppers.
Read about the Yield and Return on Investment for planting, growing and selling organic cucumbers.
Other Yield and Return Articles will Be Posted Soon for other organic crops.
Plus, fish are an important food source grown in Portable Farms Aquaponics Systems. We recommend Tilapia for our aquaponics systems. (More about tilapia at the bottom of this page.)
The major food group that will not grow well in our aquaponics system are root vegetables (carrots, potatoes, etc.).
CLICK HERE to view YouTube Video of Phyllis Davis (Co-Inventor of Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems and Patio Ponics Portable Farms™) showing how EASY it is to plant seedlings in the gravel of a PatioPonics Portable Farm.
Phyllis Davis, Co-Inventor of Portable Farms, harvesting cucumbers from a small PatioPonics Portable Farm
Portable Farms SALMON Aquaponics Systems are Now Available: CLICK HERE for more information.
Each of these tomatoes weighs 1/2 pound. We harvested them yesterday (Februay 1, 2012) from a Portable Farm Aquaponics System. DELICIOUS.
Everyone loves our tomatoes; they TASTE LIKE the tomatoes we remember when they were farm fresh. (Remember those?)
Lane McClelland with one head of Swiss Chard
Cucumbers grow very well in Portable Farms!
All varieties of Peppers grow WILD AND CRAZY in Portable Farms!
Bell peppers are a BIG FAVORITE for a crop in Portable Farms!
32" Basil in a PatioPonics Portable Farm
Zucchini are a BIG FAVORITE for growing in Portable Farms!
Green Beans are easy for growing vertically in a Portable Farm!
Yellow Squash grown well in a Portable Farms Aquaponics System
All varieties of lettuce (and all greens) grow well in Portable Farms! In fact, lettuce is the fastest growing crop in a Portable Farm. Generally, a head of lettuce is ready to harvest in 40 days after planting.
Colle Davis holding ONE HEAD of lettuce from a Portable Farm grown in 40 days.
To work efficiently, Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems require ‘warm water, fresh water fish’ of some kind to provide the essential waste and their nutrients for your plants. If you do not want to eat your fish, you can give them to friends who do eat fish, sell them, or simply enjoy them as ‘pets’. Portable Farms uses Tilapia which are a delicious white fish with a mild flavor. They take between 7 and 9 months to grow harvest size at 1 1/4 pounds to yield two, four-ounce fillets. Tilapia is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the tilapiine cichlid tribe and range in color from white, pink, salmon colored, dark gray and brown.
Tilapia in Portable Farms Aquapoics Systems
Fresh Tilapia fillets. FISH: Tilapia is a low-fat, white-fleshed fish that is sweet, fine-textured and doesn’t taste ‘fishy. Enjoy your Tilapia by baking, broiling, grilling or steaming it.
The history of Tilapia can be traced back over 4,500 years to Ancient Egypt with its origins in the Nile River. Tilapia has been called St. Peter’s Fish since early Biblical times because it is believed to be the fish that Jesus fed the multitudes in the biblical parable.
The fish used in your Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems are hybrid Tilapia or catfish, or perhaps several fish depending on availability and your State regulations. We recommend hybrid Tilapia. Please note: We don’t recommend growing trout, bass, salmon, and other fish which prefer cold water. The plants in the farms prefer warm water.
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4 comments
Cynthia Fenimore says:
2011/12/15 at 10:41 am (UTC -5 )
I am trying to find a source for tilapia – and am told by CA department of Fish & Game only a few are allowed in the county (San Diego).
Do you sell the tilapia?
portfarms says:
2011/12/15 at 11:10 am (UTC -5 )
Cynthia:
Sorry, we do not sell Tilapia. It’s not ‘easy’ to find tilapia in Southern California because of harsh guidelines by Fish and Game but you can have them shipped to you if you’re in San Diego by our friends in Florida: http://tilapiafarmingathome.com. You can buy a colony (6 females and 1 male) and create your own tilapia farm in aquarium tanks.
Good luck!
jim says:
2012/04/02 at 11:06 am (UTC -5 )
I live outside Gainesville FL on a pecan orchard.We can build most anything.Where could I see one of these in action.Sounds like I’m in the 20×30 size.
TKS
Jim
portfarms says:
2012/04/02 at 11:15 am (UTC -5 )
Jim,
You are welcome to visit our installation here in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. There are no publicly available PFAS Units in your area yet. Soon.
Colle Davis, Inventor