Author: Amanda Heron

Yeo Valley Food Awards night 2016

A fantastic night at Yeo Valley HQ for the Food Awards last Monday 25th Jan. Antonio created a unique and fresh tasting canapé of freshly picked ingredients only hours before the event, now that’s not something you will normally find in food catering! A Watercress wrap filled with French Sorrel Yeo Valley organic crème fraiche […]

Watch Bio aqua farm on BBC 2 Harvest 2015 – available on iplayer until 14th November!

Harvest returns for a second series to celebrate British farming, and follow the fortunes of some of our top farmers as they battle to bring in the 2015 harvest. Gregg Wallace, Philippa Forrester and newcomer James Manning cross the country visiting farms that produce world-class crops and meeting innovative and pioneering farmers. We’ll witness the […]

BAQUA Conference at Bicton College

BAQUA’s 3rd annual Aquaponic Conference was held at Bicton EaRTH – a leading centre of excellence for environmental and renewable energy technology education and training for students, businesses and the wider community in East Budleigh, Devon. Antonio and I shared our innovative success story and the journey of creating a unique hybrid system in a new and evolving industry that […]

Bioaqua Farm OPEN DAY this summer!

Following so many requests for an open day, we have finally found a date when we don’t have other events on and would love to see everyone. So if you wondered what Aquaponics is all about and want to see it in action on the largest scale so far in the UK! We will open […]

Bioaqua farm on ITV @ Weston super food festival

Two great days at Weston super food festival pioneering sustainable bio-symbiotic farming, this is achieved in a closed loop environment where nutrient rich water from our Trout farm is pumped to the greenhouse where plants act as a bio-filter, like a natural eco-system. Using 90% less water than normal horticultural farming and no by-waste from the Trout farm. Antonio shared his chef secrets for […]

Dont worry, ‘bee’ happy..

One Sunday morning our neighbour came to alert us of her discovery, our bees in her 15metre tall pine tree![one_half]   Then I looked up and the sky was full of bees following their queen in search of a new home… luckily Antonio likes to climb trees, so made his way up the pine tree and […]

Festival of Nature, Bristol & Glastonbury Abbey Medieval festival

What a great weekend of events and perfect weather to go with it… well, so I thought being Australian.. but maybe slightly too hot for some.. While Antonio was cooking up a storm of Hot Trout Fillet Pittas, with fresh garden salad and parsley/garlic Mayo @ Glastonbury Abbey in his medieval costume and display… and winning […]

Two great days of intestive learning on our aquaponic course

Congratulations to a wonderful group of passionate Aquaponists for completing two days of intestive learning. Antonio (on left) has so much information to share and delivers it with passion and in a way you will remember. ‘Antonio’s confidence and competence are infectious and all my doubts about getting started with aquaponics have evaporated. I can’t wait […]

Front cover of Keynsham Matters!

What matters is the future of farming and it all starts here as we spread the word of integrated farming also known as Aquaponics.  Farmers’ markets is a great place to meet the producers and learn more about what’s behind creating delicious food and for those who are interested in eating local and growing their own in a […]