| www.YucatánRanchFarmandHome.com and Yucatán Builders in conjunction with Agricultural Innovations, Yucatán, LLC Initiating Tilapia/Aquaponics phase at Maya Neem Farms, Panaba, Yucatan This is very much a page in progress and will mainly be a collage of photos with explanations, details and more photos coming as we progress and time permits. Please see our sister site www.GreenPlanetBlueSea.com for more detailed information meantime and also feel free to contact us directly with specific questions and comments. Thank you! |
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| Various stages of clearing of pasture, rocks and boulders. Tilapa/Aquaclulture area will measure approximately 85 meters deep by 140 meters wide. We may widen that area to plant Neem trees and cash crops |
| Photo left, Center, a slow-growing Oak tree, one of the center pieces of the ranch. We will clear around it but it will always remain protected and respected as reflective of our goals and inspiration for the sum of our very much still developing interdependent projects |
| Arriving from the highway and ranch entry, the main house is on the right behind the rapidly growing Neem trees and the Aquaculture project will be on the left behind the ancient stone that forms or division walls or "Albaradas" |
| The eastern limit (for now!) of the Tilapia area is marked by the post in these two larger photos and by the trees about 90 meters towards the Gulf of Mexico and Cuba Our project lies about 10 miles from the sea |
| The soil is turning out so well and clear of stone, the farter east we go we are now planning to put our vermiculture (Earthworm) operations along side of this first batch of tanks. We have plenty of space and with the infrastructure in place, and producing our own food, we are already speaking with several more investors interested in adding at least another 16 tanks.... Timing is great in terms of availability and growing demand with no end in sight. |
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| The photos above will have much more meaning and impact once the new tanks, plumbing, holding tanks and all extensive related equipment is in place and functioning. Meantime, let´s have a look below at the soon-to-be-moved equipment as it is currently being dismantled and readied for the move. |
| Left, the last full, 12 meter tank waiting for harvest and dis-assembly. Other tanks and their bases in various stages of dis-assembly. The bases are sloped toward the center at approximately 15°. There is a 6" PVC pipe that connects to a 90° elbow under the base which connects to a small tank for draining up to four tanks (See red tank, 2nd from left above or below). The floor of the drainage tank is lower than the lowest point in any given Tilapia tank so that when one of the 4 PVC pipes is removed from the floor of the drainage tank, the Tilapia tank begins to empty very rapidly sucking with the gravity-fed out-going water, all of the solid waste which has accumulated at the bottom of the tank since it´s last cleaning. Each Tilapia tank is drained 10% , 2 times per day. As the red drain tank fills the water from the Tilapia tank being cleaned is carried off to a larger holding and separating tank nearby. Liquid "waste" (Actually extremely nutrient rich, organic, liquid fertilizer!) is diverted to the farm´s drip irrigation system which with this size operation can service up to 110 acres. Considerable solid waste is collected every 8-10 days for composting or direct application as yet another form of highly nutrient rich fertilizer. Because the system relies on gravity, there are no "moving parts, nothing to break and no machines to run up your electrical bills! Fantastic |
| Left, new 45 KVA diesel electric back-up power generator. |