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New Member Steve McLeod 07 Jul 2014 13:54 #1927

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Hi- My wife, Lori and I have been working on creating an Aquaponic Urban Farm. We started with Koi pond,which was soon ransacked by a Prehistoric looking bird - just a crane actually - so we dug the pond deeper, and deeper still with more cover in the pond for the fish to hide. Next we instated raised beds for a veg., garden with water coming from the bottom of the pond. We call this outdoor aquaponics. Over the last five years the summer storms have wreck havoc on our garden. Wilting heat, or torrential rains and machine gun hail, so next is a green house...

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New Member Steve McLeod 07 Jul 2014 14:26 #1930

HFI_Matt ~ Humble Servant ~ OFFLINE ADMIN Posts: 927 Good Job(s): 108	Ha ha ha!! I had a little koi pond once and yep, the same prehistoric creature took my fish. Great looking garden and pond:) Did you use SketchUp for the drawing out plans? That is awesome!
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New Member Steve McLeod 07 Jul 2014 14:30 #1931

MKK-FARMS OFFLINE Moderator Posts: 103 Good Job(s): 10	Looks great! How many Koi do you have in it?
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New Member Steve McLeod 07 Jul 2014 14:32 #1932

HFI_Matt ~ Humble Servant ~ OFFLINE ADMIN Posts: 927 Good Job(s): 108	By the way, I added your photos to your post for you:) Look at the forum video at around 4:19 sec into it. I show how to post images.
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New Member Steve McLeod 08 Jul 2014 05:36 #1942

CDfromKY Wise Old Gardener OFFLINE Senior Member Posts: 67 Good Job(s): 18	Fantastic! Better than mowing grass eh?
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New Member Steve McLeod 08 Jul 2014 13:50 #1952

AUF want-to-be OFFLINE New Member Posts: 10 Good Job(s): 2	yes Sketchup. Still takes me a month of Sundays to make anything, yet better to take time in the planing stage then be calling myself a dummy latter while trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Have you seen our kickstarter video?
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New Member Steve McLeod 08 Jul 2014 13:53 #1953

AUF want-to-be OFFLINE New Member Posts: 10 Good Job(s): 2	Started with 10@ $0.10 feeder gold fish, Then found a local koi dealer, and bought 10@ 5" koi for $100, those koi are now 20" fat and friendly- some eat out of my hand
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New Member Steve McLeod 08 Jul 2014 13:56 #1954

AUF want-to-be OFFLINE New Member Posts: 10 Good Job(s): 2	That's for sure- What is grass is good for besides mowing? I need a non-mow no-grow grass - stops at 3".
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New Member Steve McLeod 08 Jul 2014 14:30 #1956

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yes Sketchup. Still takes me a month of Sundays to make anything, yet better to take time in the planing stage then be calling myself a dummy latter while trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Have you seen our kickstarter video?

You mind sharing your Sketchup file here so I can have a better look? That is cool! I am just starting to use it myself:) Planing twice as long makes the job that much easier for sure!

I did see your start up video. You really need to get your videos on youtube so you can get an income from ads. It will help fund your project.

Get a youtube account then let me know what the user name is, upload videos you've done, and I will give you the next step:) I think you are a natural for making howto videos bro!

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New Member Steve McLeod 08 Jul 2014 14:32 #1957

HFI_Matt ~ Humble Servant ~ OFFLINE ADMIN Posts: 927 Good Job(s): 108	I used to have an Oscar fish tank and they would eat from my hand and let me pet them:) They would even let me pick them up without being scared!
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