permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Pete Gasper, Gasper Family Farm <
farmer1@gasperfarm.com> wrote:

> What kind of fish are you feeding? How did you come of with this system and
> how are you making the pellets (pelletizing machines tend to be rather
> large
> scale, finicky things).
>

For small scale pellet production you could take Georg's ingredients, mix
them with some kind of binder
to make a dough then run them through a hand crank meat grinder with large
screen. Have two people do it, one turns the crank, the other takes a knife
and slices the "worms" off as they emerge and puts them on a tray to dry in
the sun before feeding. You could also use a sausage stuffer for larger
diameter "worms" then slice them into short lengths for drying with a
cheese "harp".

On 01/02/2014 10:37 AM, georg parlow wrote:
> > I am feeding with homemade pellets - I make them from organic oil
> > press cake (hemp, almond, sesame and linseed), whole meal spelt flour,
> > and a little rockdust. All of it purchased, I admit. I grow my own
> > duckweed to supplement. For next season I plan to set up my BSF larvae
> > production (with setting up the main system I could not focus on that,
> > and it failed), and a tank growing a small native crawfish on tree
> > leaves and veggy scraps for fich food .
>