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🐟 Aquatic Microbiology, Natural Farming AI, and Home Aquaponics, with Steve Raisner | Otter.ai

🐟 Aquatic Microbiology, Natural Farming AI, and Home Aquaponics, with Steve Raisner

Jordan River54min

Jordan River

00:00

Greetings growers from around the world. Jordan River here back with more grow cast. You can find me tending to the fish. Today, we have the fish master himself. Steve raisner is back on the line potent ponics, and he's here to talk about his new master class for aquaponics that he has coming up, as well as his work on his AI chat bot and so much more. A lot of good natural farming talk, a lot of good aquatic micro talk. I always love sitting and rapping with Steve before we get into it, though. Shout out to AC infinity, baby. AC infinity.com. Code growcast One five to get your savings and keep the lights on. Here at growcast, we appreciate your support, and we love AC infinity. They make the best grow tents around extra thick poles. They've got nice, durable, thick siding now. They have the new side ports people have been asking for those in AC infinity list. And plus, they've got everything else you need to grow. They've got lights and pots and fans and their oscillating fans, the cloud Ray system. Check out their humidifiers, the cloud Forge. How nice is your humidifier? Maybe it's time to replace that. The cloud rays are my favorite oscillators on the market. And of course, their cloud Line series, where they got it all started with all those years ago when we were partners with AC infinity, all they made were those inline fans, and they're the best in the game. So shout out to the entire AC infinity suite. They've got everything you need to get growing from fans to tents to lights. Code grow, cast one five works at AC infinity.com. You support us, and you're getting some badass durable grow gear while you're doing it. So thank you to all you listeners using code grow, cast one five, and thank you to AC infinity. All right, let's get into it. Steve, thank you for listening and enjoy the show. Hello, podcast listeners who are now listening to grow cast. I'm your host, Jordan River, and I want to thank you for tuning in again today. Before we get started, as always, I urge you to share this show, turn someone who grows onto growcast. It's the best thing that you can do to help us out, or turn someone onto growing if they're a smoker, that's how you can help out the overall mission of overgrow, and we love to see that growcast podcast.com for all the things, the seeds, the classes, the Membership Special, thank you to all of the Grow cast members. You make this possible, and I am grateful for you. Today, we've got a great friend of the show back on the line. It's been a minute. He's been on growcast tv a few times. I popped in for a recent double feature, but it's been a second since we've had a one on one with the aquaponics expert, IPM expert, microbe expert, and so much more. Steve is here potent ponics on Instagram, from growing with fishes. You know him. You love him, and he joins us now. What's up, Steve, how are you doing? Man, good. Man, going Yeah. Doing good. Thank you for coming back on the show. I appreciate you making time. You've been a busy man. You've been working on consultations, you've been working on that AI natural farming and IPM chat bot that you've been crafting. You've been working on a new aquaponics master class. Tell

Speaker 1

02:58

us what you've been up to, man, yeah, and really busy. So I have a bunch of projects going up this year. We have a project with one of the Native American tribes Oklahoma, so that's coming along. We have, we got a grant last year for a couple $100,000 to build out a pretty large greenhouse facility that they already have. The greenhouse is there, but it needs a little bit of TLC, and then we're going to put a big aquaponics system in it. So that'll be really cool. To make a new education space for the tribe out there. Got a couple of other projects here and there with different cannabis facilities and aquaponics facilities around the country. So been working on that. We've been doing all kinds of different neat stuff. Been working really hard on this master class. We have aquaponic master class in May, May, 22 through 26 it's in Beggs, Oklahoma, so that'll be in May, and that'll be five days, intense, of course, we'll have a lunch provided for everybody each day, and then we're gonna do a barbecue on Friday. Kind of make it a really fun experience for people, but that's going to be the longest class that I've taught to date, and the most extensive class, over 1000 slides and really kind of trying to cover every last little thing that there is that will also be available as an online course here in a couple of weeks. After that, in June, we'll be launching the online version of that, which I'm currently recording most of that as we speak. So yeah, we'll get that up as soon as we can. But lots of cool stuff we have on top. I have a top for teaching with all of branch aquaponics in Oklahoma. Both of us have actually worked on aquaponics facilities in Africa, so we both have some pretty unique experience when it comes to large scale, commercial aquaponics at the multi acre scale. We both worked on those types of facilities in Africa, so that's really cool to have that kind of CO teacher with, and it's a guy that I've worked with for quite a few. Years in Oklahoma on different aquaponics, and actually Texas as well. We've done some projects there on different aquaponic vegetable and food production facilities. So that's been really cool. I'm just excited about that. I'm just put a ton of work into updating all that with the latest information. There is an aquaponics. There's so much crappy information out there. And then we'll also condense that down to a short course as well. So there'll be, like, a cheap, you know, I know nothing. I just, I'm interested in the backyard system kind of thing. Yeah, that available, but as a separate shorter course, it'll be a little bit cheaper. But for now, we're going to do the master class, and then the in person one, and then have a slightly longer version that'll be, you know, maybe an extra day or two long. And like for the online course, it'll also be provided. And if you buy, if you come to the in person course in Oklahoma, you'll actually get the the online course for free. With that so busy,

Jordan River

05:50

busy, like I said, Now I like that. You're going to condense that down for each one, right? So you're, I'm sure, like you said, you could probably do 2000 slides on this type of stuff, but to get the aquaponics application into the home growers hands, I think that's, that's the big one man. That's a key that I think a lot of people would take advantage of if it was just a little bit more

Speaker 1

06:14

accessible, you know, Oh, yeah. And I actually have a whole, like, a query in aquaponics, like a one hour presentation on my YouTube channel. I don't remember exactly where it is, but it's on there somewhere one of the podcast episodes. I think it was actually, I don't remember which one, but we did do a presentation at some point.

Jordan River

06:34

That's cool, though. Man, I do think that's really neat. That's where a lot of the magic lies. But speaking of home growers, can we talk for a second about this AI chat bot? And you know, you've been working with it, but you're working with it from the back end, so you get a glimpse of something very, very interesting, basically, A Glimpse Inside the Mind of home growers and professional cultivators alike, I'm sure. But like, I guess what I'm asking is, what have you learned looking at the things that people engage with your AI chat bot with about you know what I mean? Does that question make sense?

Speaker 1

07:08

Sure, yeah, a whole bunch of different cool stuff. Working on the AI. I've been doing a lot of the data compiling, and then also, like the making sure that AI is answering people correctly so going back and reading the conversations and making sure that the AI is doing it right, because we train use that data to train the AI to be smarter each time. So Right? And we have a whole new version working on training, so it'll be available offline as well. To download it, I'll have you on your phone, and you'll have the library, you know, local lease. You won't have to have an internet connection if you don't need it. Don't want to do that, which is super cool. But what we've been doing right now is in this beta phase training the AI, it's been really, really interesting. We had someone try to scrape all the data from it, which we had some safety precautions in it that kind of prevented them from doing that. It's interesting to see them try to try to make it give the answers that we didn't want to give. That was funny. Okay,

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