If you’re fishing for a fun and eco-friendly gardening project while at home, try building a small-scale aquaponics system in your backyard. Aquaponics is a form of agriculture that combines ...
A group of Girl Scouts left a Gastonia garden with pothos cuttings, ramshorn snails and bacteria water, here's why.
Are you interested in sustainable food production methods? Have you heard about aquaponics? If not, you’re in for a treat! Aquaponics can revolutionize the way we grow our food by combining ...
This is a small-scale aquaponics demonstration lab at UMass Amherst. Such recirculating aquaculture systems include various water treatment devices connected through flowing water. The waste stream is ...
In the mountain climate between Bayfield and Pagosa Springs, farmer Matt Brewer plans to harvest 400 to 600 of pounds of leafy greens each week from just one of his aquaponic greenhouses this summer.
Purdue University announced plans Wednesday to construct a pilot-scale aquaponics system on campus to produce tilapia and lettuce. The university has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the U ...
Inside an upstairs room at Ivy Tech Community College’s East Chicago location, something surprising soon will greet visitors and students — an aquaponics system in which tilapia will help produce ...
Ready to become a farmer? You can do it on a small scale — without soil. There are three growing methods that end with “-ponics” (from Greek meaning “to labor” or “to work”): Hydroponics: The “hydro,” ...
If you are looking for more than lettuce greens and tomatoes from your home food garden, this may well be the solution: Over the past decade or so, inventive gardeners have come up with a marriage of ...
Four Rapoport Academy seniors are taking learning about sustainable urban farming to a new level by setting out to build two aquaponics greenhouses before they graduate this spring. But they’ll need ...