So here's what you are actually helping to build guys..... 🐟 Catfish ponds + hatchery → nutrient water → gardens & duckweed/Azolla 🌱 Gardens + orchards → residues → BSF larvae + worms + animals 🪱 Worm farm → vermicompost + liquid fertiliser 🐔 Chickens | 🐐 goats | 🐖 pigs → manure → biogas digesters 🔥 Biogas → cooking + backup power 🌱 Biogas slurry + worm tea → crops + orchards 🌳 Orchards → food + feed + income 🛖 Restaurant + Retreat waste → BSF + worms + biogas ⚡ Solar + 🌬 wind → pumps, cold storage, hatchery, lighting Energy + food + fertility all feeding each other. The fish for me will start everything else off.. Whatever it is you are planning , you have got to get the homework done. Do the difficult stuff UPFRONT .. .. Have those conversations with whomever you want to serve. Decide early on what is going to make you the money to invest into your dream. I am a student of practical knowledge. Take the time to learn from the experts who are crushing it, then TRY IT OUT. 🤣😂🤣😂. Whatever your context, even if you are gushing with cash to invest... Start what I like to call 'dirty trials'... Use as little of your resources as possible but TRY IT OUT. Even the really successful farmers out there mostly all say the same thing. There's a reason they all say that... Just saying... Agro tourism is the future. I absolutely believe that. Especially if you lean on the 'organic and natural ' route we mostly came on here to learn from each other ... Just my Sunday morning reflection musings.... What's been your experience in your niche? As always, share freely guys. I love chatting all things community 😁😁

So this network nonsense is persisting on these islands. During the day, coverage is poor to nonexistent and then I get back to the flat and it's hit and miss with the broadband 😞😞. Bare with me guys, I'll get this nut cracked one way or another.....🤔🤔

Just realised that not everyone will have seen 'the engine' that drives the farm. I was having a chat with @Emil Moldovan and it was in our conversation and I assumed I'd posted it🤣😂🤣. Well here it is guys. This market did not exist when we first came to the village. It's the brainchild of the Chief who saw the potential of what we were aspiring to do and he set out to create a market. It started out as a few vegetables stalls.... Now....... THOUSANDS of people come here every Friday to trade all sorts right in our back yard.... All from a "conversation" nearly a decade ago😂🤣😂🤣 This is the before market day and on market day(Every Friday). @Simon Nelson

Hey guys... More set backs afoot. So we learned last time that we needed to suspend the eggs, ✅. We did that. We needed to warm up the water source, ✅ we thought we got it , but crucial mistep was keeping the entire thing constant throughout the night. We didn't put enough measures in place, so back to the drawing board... The eggs are dying... FAST Another lesson hard learned. The eggs did turn on us quite rapidly white this time round(the temperature has gone down significantly already this April, so we knew April was not good for THIS... buuuuut... Stubborn me tried anyways 😂🤣😂😂. This week we set about trying to fix heating up the nursery guys. Anyone have any clever suggestions to heat up water without electricity at night? The Solar will be a few weeks before we can ship them... need to maximise space in container(it's not cheap) So till then......My first thoughts is trying some kind of water heat exchange contraption??? Get some steel drums heat up the water over charcoal and introduce it slowly into the tanks during the night?? Anyone else think of a plan??? Also, we have some pesky fire ants on the rampage making our black soldier fly colony their free buffet. Anyone know of non toxic ways to keep those chaos away? Lets get these fish bred... I'm not taking defeat laying down🤣😂😂😂

A few dozen hardcore babies did survive our mistakes.. they are darting about looking healthy so claiming a WIN ✅😂🤣😂😁😁. Lets keep them alive and grow them out now while we fix the mistakes and try again.. Aaaand the Azolla is recovering well from sun shock this time round. Soooo another mini win✅.. Going to try insulate the breeding house and add charcoal heating bins to increase temperature... And get round to digging in some moats to keep those ants out as well. Thanks for the suggestions guys 🙌🙌👍🎉💃🕺.. Lets GOOOOO!!!