Tag > permaculture water treatment

The farm produces some grey water - from the workers' quarters, from when we wash the rebans, from overflow from the fish ponds.  All grey water is fed into a mini wetlands; first into a large pond planted with aquatic plants, then led into a biological filter using microbes before being led into a mini wetlands made up of slow flowing meandering channels planted with more aquatic plants.  The entire zone is planted with water-loving, edible plants - bananas, papayas, pumpkins, misai kuching, galangal, pegaga and various tubers.  Before discharging into the river, the...