Aquaponic cucumbers :)

 

Salone aquaponic system videos

 Here is some videos of our aquaponic nursery and training center in Kenema, Sierra Leone

Aquaponic training with the ETU Fisheries and Aquaculture student department

September 2024: workshop on aquaponic system design and production with students from Njala university. 

The one day training course highlighted the aquaponic concept and the various growing techniques. here we can see a locally constructed DWC DEEP WATER CULTURE system, that is connected to the fish tanks as source of nutrients.

Students infront of a media bed with expanded clay pebbles for fast germination in the seedling stage.

 

Aquaponic Greenhouse with tilapia hatchery for Food Security! Feed Salone!

Our story of aquaponics in Sierra Leone 

Breeding tilapia in our glass tanks

Sump tank with distributor and grow-out tank with solids removal filter

Photovoltaic powered

A shaded, tropicalised 160 square meter greenhouse houses the aquaponic system

Built with mainly locally available material and upcycled products

Growing commercial and improved varieties in soilless medium, here seen clay pebbles

The distributor and the grow-out tankwith the solids removal filter attached

Deep water culture (DWC) aquaponic growbeds are aerated with an airpump for maximum growth

A complete unit seen, with fishtanks, biofilter and 5 square meter of growbed surface, deep water culture system DWC

A media growbed using clay pebbles is excellent to start seedlings. Here we see an improved variety of cucumber

Growing oak leaf salad in media beds using clay pebbles is a good way to start bulk seeds that can be later transferrred to the DWC deep water culture rafts.

A compact media bed 1.5 square meter system with different seeds starting 

Physalis is a promising crop for hydro- and aquaponics. The seeds have germinated well after just 10 days.

Our seed starting unit with a variety of vegetables that are of high value and are also not available presently at the market. 

Blue violet basil growing in the DWC raft

Tomato clone taking root after just 6 days of being put in the aerated DWC raft. 

The Aquaponic System in Kenema is growing! Time to scale up Aquaponics in Sierra Leone

 

Salone Aquaponic completes its scalable self-sustaining urban aquaponics farm in Kenema

Salone Aquaponic has completed its 250 square meter aquaponic and vertical farming greenhouse in Kenema, Eastern Sierra Leone, to produce lettuce, vegetables and tilapia fish in a self-sustaining, climate smart way. Locally produced food has many benefits such as fresh and vitamin-rich diet, short transport ways and job creation in remote communities, just to mention a few. The 250 square meter greenhouse holds rearing tanks for fingerlings, growout tanks for 1500 tilapia and 3 growbeds, combining media beds and floating raft (DWC Deep Water Culture) in one system. 

250 sqm tropical greenhouse with DWC & media beds

Salad seeds growing in the aquaponic DWC

Cement growout ponds holding each 750-1000 tilapia

Soy bean growing in a gravel media bed

The system combines media beds and DWC

Spring onions in the DWC

Tilapia juveniles in one of the aquariums

Styrofoam plates with net cups are floating on the water

The greenhouse features a unique design for hot climates allowing air to flow through and create a natural cooling

Mini-grid PV-system for the supply of energy to the compound

10kw lithium-ion battery array and PV components

The offgrid aquaponic system is powered by a 10KW photovoltaic system 

Tilapia fingerlings in one of our fingerling tanks

Big thanks to the team of Agro Fish Farm SL Ltd. for the improved tilapia fingerlings

Agro Fish Farm SL Ltd. raises improved tilapia in greenwater ponds

The CEO and founder Aminata Kandeh monitoring and supervising the stocking process

Agro Fish Farm CEO Aminata Kandeh 

Fish food made with locally available products

Making floating pellets with locally available material