Our initial aquaponic endeavor is situated within our residential abode in Delhi, nestled on an 800-yard expanse within the verdant locale of Sainik Farms, Delhi. Our family home is a charming three-story old styled red brick villa with sandstone roofs forming the centerpiece of this landscape, enveloped by lush gardens on every side.
We commenced our aquaponic journey ten years ago, however the past five years have witnessed a remarkable metamorphosis of the entire premises into a thriving aquaponic oasis growing organic fish, vegetables,herbs and fruit for our family. We also get an income from our home by the sale of extra produce of vegetables to our customers in South Delhi
The once conventional back lawn and garden now stand re-imagined as a bustling greenhouse, home to two fish tanks and sprawling beds of vegetables nurturing an abundance of 3000 vegetables, alongside the flourishing carp within the tanks.
MAKE FOOD YOUR MEDICINE NOT MEDICINE YOUR FOOD
Aanant Aquaponic Farms shows you sustainable solutions to :
Grow your own organic vegetables, herbs, fruit , fresh water fish wherever you live
Create a pollution free Oasis in the city with an AQI of 15 , naturally cooled without air conditioning
Harvest rainwater to grow your own food and recharge ground water
Compost kitchen and garden waste producing nutritious vermi compost instead of using chemical fertilizers, managing your waste so that only recyclable waste leaves leaves the home.
Recycle grey water from the kitchen and bath water to grow fruit trees
Set up agri voltaic solar panels to provide free power for the home and to grow food.
Earn an income from your home by the sale of vegetables
Enter the Oasis of our sustainable AQI 15 home in Polluted Delhi
The entrance to our home is through the beautiful coloured glass doors from our ancestral Fort in Punjab, Adjacent to the doors is an old style cooler panel with water trickling through it day and night , this is the only entry for the outside Delhi Air into the greenhouses around our home and effectively filters and cools the air passing through it bringing the air quality to AQI =15 inside our greenhouse and our home, even if the AQI is over 411 outside the home. Besides clean air, the air is naturally cooled to 25 degrees C inside the greenhouse and inside our home, despite it being 45 degrees C outside in April
Open the doors and walk into our AQI 15 cool clean air home
A Verandah at the entrance to Our Delhi home is enclosed in a greenhouse which filters the Polluted Delhi air and circulates clean fresh air through the greenhouses around our home and through our home
Meander through the verandah where 500 plants of vegetables are growing in beds along the verandah fed by aquaponic water from the Japanese garden at the end of the verandah
Enjoy the Japanese garden at the end , with a prayer room looking onto it , to meditate listen to the sound of running water, breathe the fresh clean mountain like air blowing through the greenhouse .
A Japanese Zen Garden at the end of the entrance verandah to our house is a serene area with a prayer room in a corner, the garden uses aquaponics with pools of water growing 50 kg of carp fish a year for our home, and the water from the fish tanks flows through the greenhouse along the verandah which has 500 plants of vegetables and fruit for the home
From the Japanese garden, saunter through the greenhouse attached to the house , growing 3000 plants of celery, kale, bokchoy, spinach, mint, parsley, fed with nutrient rich water from the fish tanks at the end of the garden. The plants oxygenate the fresh cool air flowing through the greenhouse and passing through our home. We breathe fresh mountain like air with an AQI of 15 in our Delhi home.
On the North of our Delhi home we have converted a 30 ft by 75 ft garden into an aquaponic greenhouse, which has two fish tanks growing 120 kg of fish. providing nutrition to 15000 plants of vegetables and fruits in the greenhouses surrounding our home
Walk through the greenhouse and enter a climate controlled area in the greenhouse which has the only air conditioner in our home, enabling us to grow lettuce all year round ,
A climate controlled 12 ft by 14 ft 8 ft height enclosure, using inverter air conditioners is set up with aeroponic towers and racks of trays growing 5000 plants of lettuce and spinach, Lit by greenhouse grow lights, watered by aquaponic water from the fish tanks, produces 350 heads lettuce , 250 heads of baby spinach a week for sale
Walk up a flight of stairs to a first floor rooftop and take in the green delight of spinach, greens , growing there in the clean and cool air of the Greenhouse, watered by aquaponic water from ground floor fish tanks
On a first floor roof top on the east of our home is a greenhouse which grows 500 plants of vegetables , watered by aquapomic water from the fish tanks in the greenhouse on the ground floor
Now walk up a gentle flight of stairs to the greenhouse on the second floor rooftop of our house, Along the outside of the rooftop green house are beds growing 50 fruit trees, of lemons, chiku, pomegranate, figs, guava, oranges, kumquat, peaches, plums , grapes.
In media beds on the rooftop, we have about 5000 plants of vegetables, as per the season, tomatoes, cucumbers, Gourds, spinach, beans, maize in summer, then carrots, radish, green onions, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and so on, all watered by aquaponic water from the fish tanks on the ground floor A veritable feast of organic greens, vegetables, herbs and fruits
On the 2nd floor of our rooftop terrace, We have made a greenhouse 24 ft wide and 52 ft long , growing 2000 plants of vegetables and fruits in Grow bags filled with vermi compost and cocopeat , watered by aquaponic water from the fish tanks in the ground floor.
We grew Maize , in summer now being harvested to provide us maize floor for our kitchen
Stop cities becoming garbage dumps
Only recyclable waste leaves our home, We compost our kitchen waste to produce nutrient rich vermi compost. We collect the leaves fallen from trees on the road outside our home and mix it with garden waste and make leaf mold compost using red worms.
We produce 30 bags of vermi compost and leaf mold every year, using it to grow our food, which would cost Rs.30,000, if we were to buy it .
We compost our kitchen waste and Garden waste using beneficial bacteria and Red Worms, this vermicompost is filled into pots which are used in our aquaponic system to grow 15,000 plants of vegetables and fruits,
Agrivoltaic Solar panel systems power our home, and power the greenhouses around our home
A specially designed Agrivoltaic solar system on the second floor roof top is set up to allow light to come through and grow the plants. So we are not dependent on the grid for power and save on electricity bills for our home and greenhouses
Water is a scarce resource We Harvest Rain Water to grow our food and Recharge Underground Aquifiers
We harvest the rainwater from our rooftops . The rainwater fills 20,000 litre water tanks in our ground floor greenhouse, excess water overflows to recharge underground water which has raised the water table so our tubewell that had run dry now is rechaged and water can be pumped up for growing vegetables and fruits
We Recycle Grey Water
In our home, we recycle the grey water from the kitchen and bathrooms. The water goes to a filtration and settling tank at the side of our house, clearing the soaps used for washing from the tank the water is pumped up to water the fruit trees in our greenhouse
Aanant means endless :
Join Aanant Aquaponic Farms in this movement towards better health and a greener planet and endless food
Take your health In your hands
Grow your own organic food where you live . Make your environment pollution free and breathe fresh clean AQI 15 air, naturally cooled, requiring no air conditioning.
When summer temperatures outside our home are 45 degrees C, inside our home it is a cool 25 degrees C without air conditioning .
Let us get together and green the cities.
let us sow the seeds of change
Invest in your health and our planet’s future
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