> As someone who gardens, and has a little 3 acre homestead Unrelated to aquaponics, what do you find the effort/yield is on that? I've always found with anyt

> As someone who gardens, and has a little 3 acre homestead Unrelated to aquaponics, what do you find the effort/yield is on that? I've always found with anything larger than a small garden is I'm basically buying a job that pays less than $10/hr. So I've never really felt the urge to go as big as 3 acres since I'd feel that was more than a hobby. > 1) I understand buying off the shelf parts for your prototype. But spending hundreds of dollars to be shipped parts I could have bought myself is just adding more middle-men into the supply chain. At this point, just sell the parts list and plans for $20. And when you have built parts with ease of assembly in mind, so this is 5x easier than DIY with parts from home depot... THEN sell the kit. I've have to agree with this as far as routes go. DIY home assembled aquaponics is a pretty common topic that has plenty written 'bout it. It just isn't worth buying a kit without both of: A) Detailed input/outputs & cost/production for multiple geographic areas so the TCO and lifetime product is basically known. (i.e. Substantial risk reduction greater than the cost of the middle man. The only margin on DIY is the experimentation phase.) B) An actual kit that is substantially cheaper and/or easier than Home Depot and DIY. In other words, in addition to the reduction of risk due to better info, it also needs to be cheaper in at least one dimension than DIY.