The hard times are NOW and not tomorrow, so we have to think hard and deep how to overcome shortages of food, electricity and water supplies in the near future.
My suggestions are as follows (it is always better to think big than think small, so to make it worth your efforts).
1. Turn your swimming pool into a fish factory! Forget about the idea of it being a swimming pool for entertainment, now it is going to be your food factory.
2. Collect rainwater from all parts of your house and outbuildings’ roofs into the swimming pool.
3. Use solar panels on the roofs to collect sun’s energy into batteries for use of pumping the water into the swimming pool if not able to do it naturally – sloping land etc. as well as pumping it on to the vegetable beds.
3. Place the Tilapia m. fish I mentioned previously, inside the swimming pool. These fish will eat the algae so formed. Throw in the weeds and the mosquitoes breeding inside the pool, will all contribute to their food source, so you hardly ever need to feed the fish with bought fish pellets.
4. Place an open-grid of walk-way platform over the swimming pool, and place your chicken coops. rabbit cages, etc. on it so the animals’ manure also will feed the fish for free when dropped through the grid system.
5. Empty municipal swimming pools like this can feed the poor too.
6. Half empty your swimming pool water once a week, onto your vegetable beds as liquid fertilizers (you can also put your wormeries on top of the platform to cut labour too).
7. My family in U.S.A. eat regularly Tilapia and my sister-in-law said Tilapia is a lovely white fleshed fish when baked, etc.
8. When mincing Tilapia whole, the minced fish bones will give ample calcium in the diet too.
9. For every 350g to 500g (enough for a family of four) minced fish. add 1/2 to 1 cup self-raising flour, finely grated onion and parsley, salt and pepper, mix well, and place it into the fridge for an hour, before frying in hot sunflower oil, to make fish cakes.
(Let the fish replace the meat in your diet).
10. What a wonderful space-saving and LABOUR SAVING, fish factory you can have, if only you can see the opportunities offered by using your swimming pool!
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