Aquaponics to set a world standard in sustainable food production.

Aquaponics to set a world standard in sustainable food production.

All About Aquaponics

What if there was way to produce an abundance of organic food using 90% less water, while producing up to ten times more food in the same amount of area and time? What if you could achieve this using 1/4 the amount of energy, in a system that does not require fertile soil, saves you labor, makes you a good living and is incredibly sustainable? Well the exciting news is that such a system of farming exists! It's called Aquaponics and is a combination of Aquaculture and Hydroponics. It is one of the most sustainable and productive farming system in the world! Sound too good to be true? At a time of global climate change, depletion of resources, pollution of water and huge losses of top soil worldwide, there has never been a more important time to learn about Aquaponics.

Now entering its fourth year, the drought in California is so bad that NASA senior water scientist Jay Famiglietti warned that “the state has only about one year of water supply left in its reservoirs, and our strategic backup supply, groundwater, is rapidly disappearing.” Record heat has made this the worst California drought in 1200 years.

Water is at the heart of Aquaponics. Aquaponics is one of the most sustainable and productive farming systems in the world. It combines Aquaculture and Hydroponics to create a truly self-sufficient closed loop system that uses only a fraction of the water, labor, energy, etc. that other methods use. Aquaponics creates an even more sustainable, dynamic, productive & regenerative system.

Aquaponics is a truly sustainable closed loop system that provide all the needs for the system that produce virtually all of the system's needs (water, energy, fish, feed, heat, gas, etc.) onsite! Products of the Aquaponics systems include; Solar electricity, Solar heated air, Solar heated water, fish, prawns, vegetables, fruit, aquatic plants, algae, minnows, snails, worms, dry and liquid fertilizers, even methane gas! 

Aquaponics systems can produce eight times the food as the same square footage on land, with one-twentieth of the water (if not less), partly because the plants get all the food and water they need, and none of the pesticides or fertilizers. Gravity-driven loops mean very little energy is needed to power a simple, single pump. No crops require rotating, because the water does the circulating. Thanks to its elegantly simple circulation loops, it uses 10 percent of the water of conventional ag. 

Let that fact sink in for a minute:

Aquaponics systems uses only 10 % of the water regular gardening does.

Because the water is continuously re-circulated. The roots of your plants are continually submerged in nutrient wealthy water. 

Aquaponics Facts

AQUAPONICS USES 90% LESS WATER THAN CONVENTIONAL FARMING DOES!

AQUAPONICS IS ENERGY-EFFICIENT: IT REQUIRES ONE-THIRD OF THE ENERGY OTHER FARMING SYSTEMS USE!

AQUAPONICS HAS EIGHT TO TEN TIMES MORE VEGETABLE PRODUCTION IN THE SAME AREA AND TIME!

LABOR IS REDUCED AS MUCH AS 40% AND MANY USEFUL BYPRODUCTS ARE CREATED THAT CAN BE USED TO FARM OTHER CROPS, TREES, SOIL, WATER AND ENERGY!

A PERMACULTURE INSPIRED SYSTEM PRODUCES ALL OF THE SYSTEM's NEEDS (WATER, ENERGY, FISH FEED, HEAT, ETC.) ON SITE!

PRODUCTS OF THE SYSTEM INCLUDE; SOLAR ELECTRICITY, HEAT, FISH, PRAWNS, VEGETABLES, AQUATIC PLANTS, ALGAE, SNAILS, WORMS, FERTILIZER, EVEN METHANE GAS!