Thailand calling

Hi growers all around the world,

I am "See" 46 living in Chonburi Thailand, married to a German and just starting to live our dream.
As Farmer's daughter with a modern Farmer's Husband we decided to go the "modern" way and took the words mono-culture out of our minds.
My husband made me an aquaponics trial system in our backyards and after 6 years I am totally hooked into it so we want to develop a farm.

But aquaponics alone isn't a good idea as you have waste, created by our fish, water and leftover and low quality veggies for raising Black soldier flies.

And you need Fruit trees, low maintenance crops and low valued crops that are too cheap to grow them in aquaponics, hence permaculture seems to do the magic, especially when you have about 29 acre of farmland gifted by my family to live our dream.

We started this year growing fruit trees, veggies and nuts from all around the world (my husband is offshore consultant and comes much around)

So we are standing off the crowd already but still we are at the very beginning.

That's why i joined here.

Picking brains, exchange lessons learned and make friends that speak the same language..

I am looking forward to long conversations on my/our way forward back to nature..

Welcome, See! 29 acres, wow, sounds awesome. Look forward to seeing what you do there!

Tereza Okava wrote:Welcome, See! 29 acres, wow, sounds awesome. Look forward to seeing what you do there!

Thank you so much Tereza,

I actually signed up here because of the abundance of info and more because of the activity here in permies.com
Most forums are dead or have only some characters left you stop talking after the first post you did.

As I stated, we are good in Aquaponics and left permaculture somehow behind, never really bothered as it was for us, digging a hole an planting a tree.
Last year my always active husband told me, I have learned a lot and even we spent a fortune on our test system in our backyard, my Nephews and myself would have never been capable to learn it from books in an University and there it would have been 4 times the money spent if not even more.
With an University knowledge I would also not be capable to understand the Aquaponics language, say how the Fish and the Veggies talk to you, how the microorganisms working by just smell the water and so on an on.
Books cannot teach you that..

Here at permies I decided to make up a post about what you asked, what we do there and what will come in the next years.

we are now at step one: Backyards aquaponics
and started step 2: seeding all collected Trees

The land might not be touched the next 3 years and may be we even sell it to find a more suitable spot like more square and also with some elevations. This are rice fields hence all wetlands and even in Thailand Landfill costs a coin.

I would love to make up a post here that I am using as a memorandum, that tells our story since 2014 where we started and when we have reached the present time to update further to get at the end a book.

as it includes by now mainly aquaponics with tilapia, crayfish and starting trees from seeds plus a bit of grafting but gets to permaculture and edible forest, low maintenance gardening and zero waste management by using black soldier flies (my husband, I still scared of these critters my question would be:
In which topic I should start this post so that all themes fit in this page?


It might take some time as my English is not what you see, also here my husband and I working as a team.
I write Thai, use Google translate and send it for approval to my husband. He sends it back and then its copy... paste... post...
but still its a good way to improve my English..

any recommendation where you want to see me writing my story book of our future?

Welcome to permies See. It sounds like you have some excellent experience to share. We have an area for projects & an area for aquaponics too. Those might be where you want to start posting. The staff can add it to extra areas. Use the "report" button to ask for help with that.

Thank you Mike,

it seems for me also that Projects is the best place to start.
I sent already a few posts to my husband, who is since 21 February "stuck" (but luckily on a job) in Taiwan since Thailand is closed due to Covid 19.
So I give him entertainment when he is bored in the Hotel

Sad times for us..