FREEFORMINTERGRATION

NORTH QUEENSLAND

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FREEFORMINTEGRATION is integrating existing technology to create a new way of doing sustainable agriculture. Our goal is to to change the way people think about farming practices and the environment, ployculture to use the natural way the environment works, to provide multiple income streams, sustainable solutions profitability and reduce over all costs. At the same time reclycling bi-products and waste into environmentally friendly products for reuse on the farm or sale for profit. The politicians have recently been talking about INTEGRATED AQUACULTURE as a way to make unprofitable farms more profitable. POLYCULTURE to beat disease and pests. SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE to combat decimating farming practices. RECLYCLING,  ZERO IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT,  REGENERATION,  REFORESTATION These words just mean more expense to the large operators. But for small to medium operators this is a basket full of opportunities!!!!
Opportunities; to make bigger profits,
  To get organic certification,
  To turn waste and bi-products into profits,
  To Create multiple income streams,
  To reduce your long term running costs,
  To insulate you from shifting market prices,
  To diversify products produced,
  To develop a chemical free environment,
  To qualify for government grants,
By using Freeformintegration's Integrated Aquaculture you can.
  Make bigger profits because you can get organic certification and sell as organic produce, which nets approx 20-30% higher price at the market. Cost of chemical sprays is reduced to zero, however natural controls for pests can be put into this category. Neem oil and copper sulphate combat most problems both are naturally occurring and safe to user and consumer, saving the cost of protective equipment and associated health problems that come with toxic sprays.
  Bigger profits can also be recouped by recycling your waste. Water from aquaculture is full of nutrients, if dumped in to natural waterways, causes massive degradation by promoting very rapid plant growth and choking waterways! Why would you waste this wonderful resource? You need to replace a percentage of the water in the ponds daily to replace evaporation and prevent the build up of toxins in the water. The toxins to the fish are fertilizer to the plants. So of course you use this water to irrigate your crops, or as water to grow hydroponically. Plants that you grow in the ponds to feed the fish and to clean and oxygenate the water have to be harvested periodically to prevent them taking over, this promotes fresh regrowth, removes carbon and nitrogen and many other compounds tied up in the plants from the pond system. Why waste this, compost or just spread as mulch and you are fertilizing your crops for a minimal cost, or sale and there is no waste. Animal waste can be recycled as fertilizer or used to generate electricity
  Freeformintegration Bigger profits come from poly culture (many things growing together). Plants benefit from having many different varieties growing in the same paddock or pond, benefits include faster and more voracious growth, habitat for predator insects and improved soil and water quality. Ducks can free range in small crops, eating bugs and fertilizing as they grow for food and sale. Ducks should be kept out of aquaculture as much as possible. Chickens free range in orchards eating bugs, fertilizing, and aerating the soil plus a bonus of eggs and meat, also chickens and ducks will discourage some of the birds that are feeding on up to two thirds of your fish in un netted ponds.
  Freeformintegration Bigger profits can also be realised by doing some processing on site. By sending fish to market in a variety of forms, some whole on ice (your best quality), Some no head and gutted, some frozen fillets. This helps counter the ups and downs in price at the market. It also gives you a valuable by-product, which can be further processed into fish fertiliser or dried and mixed with waste from the orchard and water plants to make food for the fish (currently all commercial feed products are full of antibiotics and animal products not fit for consumption by any animal or fish). There is a market for good quality reasonably priced fish food, by-products and waste turn into profit.
  Freeformintegration Bigger profits By placing ponds and channels in amongst crops and orchards you facilitate drainage and recoup water used in irrigation (filtered through the soil and mulch) also by placing lights over the ponds, at night lots of bugs are attracted to the lights and fall into the water feeding the fish on natural food and removing insects from the crops. This process helps to maintain a balance which we have upset by planting so many food plants in a small area, and will help in creating a much more natural environment
  Bigger profits can be realised by having multiple products going to the market and creating multiple income streams
  Freeformintegration Bigger profits and cost savings can be generated by worm farms. By composting in a worm farm you produce worms that can be fed to the fish as part of their diet or sold to gardeners and fishermen. By products include worm juice (no worms are harmed to produce this), which is a highly concentrated fertiliser that is full of worm eggs. This is added to irrigation water to ensure a proliferation of worms all over the property. Worm casts are a well known organic fertiliser and can be sold or used, as need dictates.
  Freeformintegration Bigger profits, Cleared land not suitable for farming can be planted in forestry (not pine trees in Australia please!). Trees native to the area, irrigated and managed properly not only stabilize hillsides and stop erosion, they also stop salt coming to the surface.Native trees grown in a commercial style, can produce mill able timber for sale or use on site.
  Freeformintegration Bigger profits can be further enhanced and diversified by introducing pigs into the equation. A piggery sets up a series of opportunities.