Tank to Table?
Decatur Metro | September 12, 2010Hmmm. From the front page of Sunday’s AJC…
When Atlanta gardeners pick their pumpkins and gourds next month by hand, landscaper Brian Barth will harvest his bounty by net.
Barth has raised more than 100 tilapia and a dozen catfish in a 1,200-gallon tank in a Decatur backyard, his first adventure in aquaculture.
Unlike vegetables, there’s no weeding or watering. Unlike chickens, there’s no clucking or running away. The tank’s churning water soothes by sound and promise. Barth knows exactly where his protein will come from.
“I really think this is the next thing in urban food farming,” said Barth, 31, whose Tree of Life Ecological Services installs edible landscapes. “I can see this in basements or office buildings. Restaurants have always had fish in huge tanks. It will be tank to table.”
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I have an inground pool in my backyard which i have visioned as an ‘aquaculture’ — It is no longer viable as a chlorinated swimming hole because i refuse to pay and pay…electric and chemicals…but filling it in seems like such a waste of a very expensive concrete pond … perhaps this is not merely the musings of a crazy old lady after all !!!
Must… have… pictures!!!!
I am not sure this is the same person but there was a tilapia tank featured in the Medlock Park garden tour: how many can there be?
(i hope the embed works, if not, just grab the picture URL)…
no, it didn’t work, go here
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_Py9rF2ATtuI/TDkZq1yeohI/AAAAAAAACTE/BnZnZRGHtbA/s720/DSC_0436.JPG
And if that doesn’t work, it’s picture #21 on the Picasa album that pops up at the 2010 Medlock Garden Tour link (right margin) at
http://medlockpark.org/
Sushi Avenue!!
Unlike vegetables, there’s no weeding or watering. Unlike chickens, there’s no clucking or running away. The tank’s churning water soothes by sound and promise.
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This makes it sound easy to keep and raise over 100 relatively large fish. I very seriously doubt that it is even remotely easy to do so. Heck, my experience with a large fish tank was that those critters need a decent amount of care in feeding, cleaning the tank, etc. And I can only imagine what 100 tilapia eat every day.
Good luck to these urban fish farmers, but if I want a live tilapia, I’ll just stop by YDFM.