Bristol Fish Project

Bristol Fish Project Aquaponics. Bristol, UK. Bristol Fish Project is a community-supported aquaponics farm in Bristol. How did the project get started? What is happening now?

Our work is an experiment in the commercial viability of community-supported aquaponics. We want to see if urban aquaponic farming can be a viable livelihood, to explore how aquaponic farming can help to close urban material loops, and to build community through innovative, collaborative local food systems. Aquaponics is a fairly recent addition to the methods and techniques available to food prod

ucers and due to its newness, much of the data for small businesses to get involved is still missing. We hope to contribute our experiences and data to the growing body of information available to small businesses. Alice had written a research bid on the commercial viability of ‘closed loop’ urban agriculture with an international group, and realised that even though they didn’t get the funding, she still wanted to find out if urban farming could provide viable livelihoods whilst also closing material loops. She had a long standing fascination with aquaponics and found herself faced with an opportunity to learn by doing and to start a small business herself as a conduit through which to explore. In the beginning of 2012 Alice and the core group began the work of setting up Bristol Fish Project, recruiting a group of community supporters to the project and running a pilot project for 18 months. We are now working on 3 facilities in Bristol –

Phoenix Cafe in central Bristol works with the skipchen and Real Junk Food Project” to cook up food that was destined as ‘waste’, and they offer their tasty ‘junk’ meals on a Pay As You Feel basis. An aquaponics unit is in the process of being set up to grow plants for the cafe to supplement the skipchen menu with herbs and salads. The unit showcases technologies from Fish Plant, Green’s Horticulture and Seneye and you can visit it during the cafe’s opening hours. We are cycling the fish plant and building a hydroponic wall this week – Why not pop in and see the build in progress and chat to Phoenix Cafe owner Annie Davies. an indoor tech and innovation driven site (more info soon)
a large outdoor site, focussing on permaculture (more info soon)
and teach regular courses. Bristol Fish Project has been awarded a strategic grant for Bristol’s year as Green Capital (2015). What motivates you? We think all people should be able to access affordable, good food, and that urban aquaponic farming can contribute to wider urban sustainability by recycling urban resources and bringing people together. We hope to evidence that urban aquaponic farming can provide viable urban livelihoods. By sharing what we are doing we hope other communities can be inspired to give aquaponics a try and we hope we can together develop some kind of social enterprise framework for closing urban-material loops through community supported aquaponics.

11/12/2018

Why smuggling one species of fish from Europe to Asia is a billion-dollar business

Such a nice start of the week! Midday visit to Bristol Zoo Gardens, talking about and the project to the new group of ...
08/10/2018

Such a nice start of the week! Midday visit to Bristol Zoo Gardens, talking about and the project to the new group of students on 's Integrated Wildlife Conservation course. Couldn't resist a quick peek in the aquarium after - especially to have a look at the white-clawed crayfish, like our European eel a native aquatic species under threat. Great to see how the Zoo contributes to wildlife education and conservation. (The dwarf mudskippers were pretty great too.) This picture was taken in the new aquarium tunnel.

24/05/2018

Lovely to see some familiar faces at our meetup

We have lots of fund projects on at the moment - if you are looking for some unusual community volunteering! -----------...
15/05/2018

We have lots of fund projects on at the moment - if you are looking for some unusual community volunteering! ------------

Project: Helping Build a Sensory Garden for young people with Special Needs - Long Term Volunteers Needed

When. Weekly, Sundays

Where: South Bristol Sensory Garden @ Bristol Fish Project - 1. Vale Lane. BS35RU

Contact: Alice-Marie Archer

Email: https://www.meetup.com/Aquaponic-Workdays-at-Bristol-Fish-Project/

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Project: Helping Build our Aquaponic Community Farm - Drop in sessions & Long Term Volunteers sought

When. Weekly, Thursday Evenings 18:30-21:00, Sundays 11-15:00

Where: South Bristol Sensory Garden - 1. Vale Lane. BS35RU

Contact: Alice-Marie Archer

Email: registration via meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Aquaponic-Workdays-at-Bristol-Fish-Project/

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Project: Eel Conservation Projects - Long-term volunteering Opportunities

When. Weekly, Tuesday Daytimes 10 - 17:00

Where: South Bristol Sensory Garden - 1. Vale Lane. BS35RU

Contact: Aneelies Leeuw

Email: [email protected]

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Project: Hackuaponics Fridays - Automation and Robotics for the future of our community farms

When. Weekly, Fridays 10-17:00

Where: South Bristol Sensory Garden - 1. Vale Lane. BS35RU

Contact: Tom & Sam

Email: https://www.meetup.com/Aquaponic-Workdays-at-Bristol-Fish-Project/events/bpbzrpyxhbxb/

Hi Neighbours! We are now offering hot-desking / coworking space in BS3 - BS35RU -£80pcm - or you can pay by week, half ...
10/05/2018

Hi Neighbours! We are now offering hot-desking / coworking space in BS3 - BS35RU -£80pcm - or you can pay by week, half week or by day! Give us a ring to find out more - 07835262968

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19/04/2018

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The Community Interest Company is slashing urban waste by bringing fish and plants together – and they want you to do it too

If anyone is interested in taking their dreams of commercial / semi-commercial aquaponics further - come and join us in ...
10/04/2018

If anyone is interested in taking their dreams of commercial / semi-commercial aquaponics further - come and join us in Bristol 23rd-26th April!

Mon, Apr 23, 2018, 10:00 AM: • What we'll do-AIMS-To make commercial aquaponics accessible-To enable participants to overcome specific production issues through access to specific information and expe

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