My aquarium filters are having issues keeping up with the massive amounts of fish waste produced by the blue tilapia in my fish tank. I have 20 fish in a 75 gallon tank with 2 filters. You would think the filters I have would provide more than enough filtration as they are both rated for…

In modern times we sometimes forget where our food comes from. Meat comes from “the store” and food scraps are treated as garbage and packed into the landfill. Part of the fun in sustainable design is creating a closed loop system where no waste is created. Check this out. The chicken and vegetable scraps from…

Many people have expressed interest in my projects and want to know how to get started. I think the easiest way is to start composting your food scraps. This can be as simple as piling them up in your backyard. If you live in a rural area and worry about raccoons and other critters rooting…

This is the 3rd chicken coop I have built. I combined and modified many techniques from the Internet into a design that makes taking care of chickens MUCH easier based on my own experience. See a video of this design below. Let me point out a few key features of the coop. Here in Washington…

The quails laid their first egg this week. They are approximately 7 weeks old. Over the next several days they laid a total of 10 eggs. You can see here they are much smaller than a chicken egg. I fried half of them, hard-boiled the other five, and shared them with my friends. They taste…

When I bred the rabbits it appeared that the male (Scofield) wasn’t “finishing” the job. The female would dominate him and he’d go running away. During their last encounter the doe scratched/bit Scofield’s nose which proceeded to get infected and swelled to an abnormal size. It looked like Rudolph the red nosed rabbit. Taking an…

I recently read a book called Sailing the Farm which talked about the nutrition benefits of sprouts and how they can be a great food while out at sea. Sprouts provide a way to bring nutrient dense foods to remote areas. This is important for me as I’ll be teaming up with some other friends…

I’m still not able to distinguish the male from female quails. They are now approximately 3.5 weeks old. They outgrew their brooding pen so I moved them into an unused rabbit cage inside of my shed. It is important to have a tray underneath their cage to catch the massive amounts of bird droppings. Thanks…

There are hundreds, perhaps thousands of black soldier fly larvae in my compost bin! They are the spawn from about 75 original larvae which I bought 4 months ago. Between the redworms and the larvae I should be able to supplement some of the feed for my chickens and tilapia. If you look close you…

The rabbits are now 16 weeks old. The male has gotten quite large. Unfortunately we recently lost a litter of babies from the female. I’m going to give her a month to recuperate then I’ll breed her again. This doesn’t have to look fancy. I’m trying to do everything as low budget as possible because…