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Pioneering Today

Aquaponic Gardening & Raising Tilapia with VW Family Farms

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today’s Pioneering Today Podcast (episode #301), I'm talking with Andrea from VW Family Farms. She and her family live on 700-acres where they homeschool their children and raise over 100 head of cattle, 40 pigs, 200 chickens, 15 beehives, and many more. They have 22,000 feet of garden space and grow their own food utilizing greenhouses and aquaponics. Their system also allows them to raise their own tilapia! For more information and shownotes visit melissaknorris.com/301.

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0:00.0

If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,

0:06.4

I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make

0:16.2

sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is

0:28.2

packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.

0:40.0

Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,

0:47.8

but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

0:56.9

We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.

1:02.1

So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by

1:06.2

that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash

1:18.2

summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.

1:25.2

Hey there pioneers and welcome to episode number 301.

1:31.2

Today's episode is really an interesting one as well as exciting.

1:39.0

We're going to be talking about elements of raising your own dairy animals and get this one. This

1:49.5

one is very interesting. Your own year-round vegetables and tilapia. So fish, using hydroponics, so not only are you raising your own fish, so for those of you who are in, you know, more landlocked areas or don't have a river to go fishing in or whatnot, and want to be able to raise vegetables in a greenhouse because my

2:15.9

interview today is with somebody who lives in an area that's not warm enough to

2:21.0

raise vegetables year-round due to the colder winter months, but by using a

2:25.4

greenhouse that uses hydroponic water growing for the vegetables, it also means

2:32.2

that they can grow their own fish.

2:35.9

And so they are raising their own tilapia year round.

2:39.6

So that's a really fun and different aspect in avenue for us to go down that we're going to be talking about in today's podcast episode.

2:47.0

But for those of you who are like, I don't know, like it's cool and I kind of want to hear about it, but I'm not sure that I'm ready to like dive in and do that and maybe you're like yes I've

2:55.8

been waiting to hear for something like this because I really want to dive in and do that.

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