AQUAPONIC FARMING - THE FUTURE OF FARMING
Truly Healthy Organic Food
Aquaponic farming systems are the perfect solution for a truly healthy, truly organic food production. Through aquaponics, we grow natural healthy vegetables that taste better with the additional benefit of healthy sustainably farmed fish.
Environmental Benefits
The challenge for future organic agriculture will be to maintain its environmental benefits, increase yields, and reduce costs while attending to the challenges of a worsening climate change and an increasing world population. Urban agriculture is a sustainable and healthy alternative for cities in the future.
WHAT’S AQUAPONICS ALL ABOUT?
Aquaponics can be traced back to the Aztec Indians who raised plants on rafts on the surface of a lake around 1000 AD, however, as a modern agricultural technology, it is still in its infancy.
Aquaculture and Hydroponics are relatively new industries, only gaining serious momentum over the past half century. The aquaponics system is a revolutionary food production system that integrates both aquaculture and hydroponics.
Like any 'disruptive' technology, the aquaponics system has a rich history behind it. It has made a lot of people re-evaluate the way in which they approach farming. It is based on the age-old wisdom of 'doing more with less'.
The advantages of an aquaponics systems include increase yields (Plants grow much faster than traditional farming, and taste far better and healthier than ever), huge water conservation (in most instances below 5% of traditional farming).
Compared with conventional agriculture, aquaponics farming uses no pesticides, reduces soil erosion, decreases nitrate leaching into groundwater and surface water, and uses no animal wastes for fertilizers, that bring risks of Ecoli and harmful chemicals.
Aquaponics takes aquaculture to the next level by hydroponically cultivating plants in water in a highly symbiotic environment. The beauty of this symbiotic relationship between all of the organisms within the aquaponic environment is that the farmed fish supply the crucial nutrients the hydroponic plants need, while the plants provide nutrients for the fish and purify the water for the entire system.