Local community makes UH D.C. exhibit shine
Visitors have tried hula, lauhala weaving and taro pounding. They also learned about navigating by the stars, lomi lomi, aquaponics and taro patches.
The exhibit, however, has been about more than the University of Hawai?i. It has been about the community working together.
UH M?noa alumnus Rick Barboza co-owns Hui K? Maoli Ola, one of the largest Native Hawaiian plant nurseries in Hawai?i. The company transported the taro patch exhibit and aquaponics plants free of charge.
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Is Aquaponics the Way We’ll Farm In the Future?
- On July 3, 2012
- By Meleah
- In Fertilizer, Indoor Gardening, Organic Gardening, Sustainable Agriculture, Veggies
Aquaponics has been on my “Must Learn More About This” list for a long while. So when I found out Garden Fresh Farms in nearby Maplewood was giving free tours of their aquaponics facility, I signed right up to go. The tour was scheduled for the middle of a week day and Maplewood is a pretty long drive out of the Twin Cities, so I didn’t expect much of a crowd. Whew! I was so wrong.
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Discover Aquaponics
Sol Collective’s Liberation Permaculture is pleased to present “Discover Aquaponics”, as part of our ongoing monthly skill share series. Come learn about growing fish and vegetables together in a recirculating, environmentally-friendly, do-it-yourself system. |
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Aquaponics – Growing Plants from Seed
This long cold Melbourne Winter has been an opportune time to assemble a wonderful collection of posts about my experiences with an aquaponics method for food production. These will be published in an almost sequential order over the next couple of years…
If you want to learn more about aquaponics and how to go about doing this for yourself, I can recommend the following resources that were a benefit to me:
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Vertical farm in abandoned pork plant turns waste into food
- Features
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Greens growing on floating beds in an experimental aquaponics farm in a project called The Plant in Chicago on June 21, 2012. Photo courtesy: AFP
CHICAGO, July 6, 2012 (AFP) - Urban farming is being taken to new heights in an abandoned Chicago pork processing plant where environmentalists hope to "get off the grid" by using the waste from one crop to feed and power another.
Schools of tilapia swim in water cleaned by the roots of leafy greens that feed on the nitrogen and other nutrients in the fish waste.
A bakery will later move in that will be able to use mash from the brewery upstairs to fire its oven.
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From Slaughterhouse to Aquaponics Farm
Not only is The Plant creating new job opportunities and restoring a prominent building, the whole organization will be self sufficient in energy needs.
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Summer progress! PortFish Aquaponics Model 3
PortFish Model 3 Aquaponics System continues to move forward. The greenhouse frame is now constructed, and our vision is coming to life!
Check out the latest collection of progress photos in our Facebook gallery.
Please like us while you’re there, too!Check out the aquaponics page to see the floor plan and other details about the project.
Want to learn more about aquaponics and have some spare time to lend a hand?
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Aquaponics and the Homeless
Hi,Over the past several years, Ive read about a variety of aquaponics endeavours (like this one) that have sought to provide aquaponically-grown food to homeless people.
With the short growing cycles involved, it seems like a no-brainer....in terms of food production.
With some more integrations (a la Microponics), it has even greater potential.......particularly if
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Aquaponics And Conventional Agriculture
Aquaponics differs in many ways from conventional agriculture and other kinds of factory farming.
I have made a chart of the differences between aquaponics and conventional agriculture:
| Conventional Agriculture | Aquaponics |
|---|---|
| Conventional Agriculture | Aquaponics |
| Grows crops in soil. | Does not grow crops in soil. Grows crops in recirculated fish waste water, either on its own with the crop plants suspended at the surface in plastic net pots on floating polystyrene rafts, or suspended in the flowing water by an intert growing media fill such as expanded clay balls (Hydroton or Hydroleca brands) or pea gravel. |
| Uses artificial fertilizer from a natural gas (methane) or methane from oil refining feedstock. | Does not use artificial fertilizer. Nitrates dissolved in the recirculating fish water from the intensive fish farm, flowing through the grow beds or floating raft deep water containers fertilize the plants. The source of these nitrates is the ammonia excreted by the fish in the intensive tank-based fish farm part of the aquaponic recirculating aquaculture system. Aquaponics uses liquid organic fertilizer sourced via the solids removal and mineralization section from the fish excreta. Fish excrete ammonia through their gills and a certain amount is also dissolved |
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Scrutiny reveals troubled Sweet Water
July 2, 2012
By Michael Timm
By Michael Timm
A $250,000 public loan supported Sweet Waters outdoor expansion. Former employees have criticized Sweet Water management for past failures. —photo Monica Ray
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