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Attila-Aquaponic

October 29, 2019

Attila · Aquaponics

Following the cycles of nature.

Wheat grass seeds

Attila

First leaves Wheat grass

As a drop evaporates, condenses, precipitates and flows back to the ocean, cycles of immense complexity and beauty are happening every moment in the nature. Like a seed can be a plant and after be a seed again.

Interview

In Porumbenii Mici we have visited Attila. Talking to Attila is talking about connections and intertwined cycles, it is talking about understanding the spiral of unbridled energy that nature gives us.

One of those many circles that feed the spiral of their projects is the Aquaponic.

Crops produced in his Aquaponics are a circular system of sustainable agricultural production. It is based on the creation of a symbiotic environment, where all the elements that make up the chain are fed back to each other. The two main elements in the chain are plants and fish.

The cycle starts with the excrements generated by the fish, these dregs are then separated through a subsystem of water, that allows not to increase the toxicity of the environment where the fishes live, and at the same time allows it to be used as fertilizer. These wastes are decomposed by nitrification, bacteria are turning them into nitrates, which are dissolved in the water and used by the plants through irrigation. The earth filters the nitrates that will be later absorbed by the plants, letting the excess water, that is now purified, flow back to the environment where the fishes are.

Fish

Excrements

Irrigation

But for Attila the circle doesn’t close here. Through aquaponics he grows a variety of wheat that has excellent healing properties provided it is only harvested once. These leaves rich in chlorophyll, vitamins, enzymes, amino acids and minerals are ingested, in the form of juice or capsules, as a food supplement with beneficial effects to wellbeing. In addition to food, Attila has developed a cream with wheatgrass powder which has disinfecting and anti-inflammatory properties and helps to rebuild the skin tissue. The remains of wheatgrass are not wasted either, it is consumed by the chickens who cackle around their house and give some extra energy to the family in the form of fresh organic eggs and meat. Nothing goes to waste.

Wheat grass juice in doses

Wheat grass in capsules

Wheat grass

Chickens

The juice production process is a very high cost process due to the machinery and materials used. Another example of connections in this spiral of circles of great understanding, Attila uses the same machinery and materials to dehydrate various types of fruits and vegetables. These foods are of great interest due to their incredible flavour and the prolonged preservation of their properties without the need of using any added chemicals

Dehydrated onion

Dehydrated apple

A few years ago, without a precise or previously marked roadmap, Attila began to give the first brushstrokes of what are now his passion project. He decided to move back home from the city, as he tells us, to try and live in harmony with nature.

It has been a pleasure to have known your project, good luck with future happenings.

Here is his Website: www.transylvanianmiracle.com

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If this story sparked your interest towards finding out more about Rural Transylvania and possible ways to experience it, you are welcome to contact us.

· Youth Association from Transylvania at office.ata@gmail.com

· Farmers Association from the Cristuru Secuiesc Area at office.aacs@gmail.com