I've been looking around for low or no cost way to grow my food. After nearly 30 years in apartments and never having space to really garden I started using Tower Gardens.
Now that I live in a house with a yard I am gardening in the landlord's old rotting raised beds fighting weeds, gophers, and other critters including my dogs and cats. The extra green around my onions is a local ground cover and a "cover crop" if you will. It looks like weeds but they are shading out vorse weeds so the pretty green stays.
However, I have to come up with a way to use my pond water and I want some new pretty raised beds to grow my next crop this summer.
It is really an awesome and totally doable project that my Dad and I can work on. Maybe people would pay for these and we could turn a profit. Really the only cost would be the nails/screws. I figure with a small modification of the design we can add a shelf on the inside and some plumbing we would be able to make a bell siphon ebb and flow hydroponic grow bed. Those things could pull in a good chunk of change if we got a working model.
My dream is to pump water from my pond into the grow bed which filters the water and returns it back to the pond. I am going to get at least one working this year. And I know I can sell that system.
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