Tilapia Fish Farm Grown Tropical Plants and Botanicals
Fish Farm Botanicals is situated on 50 acres in Willis, Texas. Our fish live in 400 ft of green house with a system that circulates the water through 4-100 foot tanks. These tanks are 10 feet wide and on each side there is gravel that the water is filtered through. This is where I grown my elephant ears. The rocks are full of nutrients that is filtered from the fish waste. This waste is like liquid gold when it comes to growing plants.
Once the 'plants are large enough I simply pull them from the rocks, rinse the roots and gently package them to ship. I cut off the foliage because this cuts down on shipping cost and the leaves almost always get damaged in shipping. Once you plant your elephant ear you will get fresh new leaves popping out in no time.
My journey into selling on Etsy has been total happenstance. This all started off with the fish farm and a friend giving me an elephant ear. I planted it in the rocks of the green house not knowing that it would flourish and multiply so much. As you see now the green house is just bursting with different varieties of plants and elephant ears.
I'm always growing and learning. Feel free to come along.
Inez
