About Me

Hello,

My name is Tyler and I am a student at California State University of Long Beach.
The reason I made this blog was to help people get familiar with aquaponics.  Aquaponics is important to the environment, because people can grow plants and fish sustainably through the use of water conservation.  

I've been growing plants and fish through this method for about a year and a half.  My experience with aquaponics has been an adventure.  I started off building small aquaponics systems with smalls buckets and plastic containers and now I am working on bigger projects.  A lot of my experience about aquaponics was learned from an internship with Living Aquaponics based in Hawaii.  This is their website http://www.livingaquaponics.com/ .  I will share my time with Living Aquaponics in the near future.  This internship allowed me to have the skills and knowledge to work with restaurants and schools.  I know how to breed Tilapia and I supply local aquaponics hobbyists with these fish.

What I want to do with aquaponics is to eventually set up my own Aquaponics contracting business.  I want to build systems and supply them with starter plants and fish.

 I would like to continue to build systems for schools to educate students about different ways of growing food in a sustainable manner that can support future generations.  I also am interested in building aquaponics systems for restaurants and non-profit organizations.  

Another thing I am focused on is to supply restaurants with the vegetable and fish that I am growing.  I want to build a relationship with restaurants and their customers so that they know their food was grown sustainably, organically, and locally.

-Tyler Ford