Patrick Durkin has been converting a former Manorville commercial fish farm into an aquaponics operation where fish and plants grow together. Fresh-picked watercress, mint and Vietnamese coriander are ...
The trend of fishermen fishing in major water bodies and small streams has since changed, with many adopting aquaculture. Although highly appreciated, experts think farmers must further adopt ...
MINDORO — An American Soybean Association trip several years ago to aquaculture facilities in Hawaii, Chile and Ecuador got rural Mindoro corn and soybean farmer Tim Goodenough interested in fish ...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — There’s new life blooming in an old South Memphis warehouse, and there’s something fishy about this operation. It’s called aquaponics, and some call the new gold rush when it comes to ...
UNH says "Researchers recently grew Boston butter head lettuce in 35 days from seed to harvest and hit the magical 150g head weight using only nutrients from the fish." Fish provide the nutrients for ...
Aquaponics is an ancient farming discipline with roots extending back either to Aztec agricultural islands or Far Eastern polycultural farming systems (depending on who you talk to). East Valley ...
When an urban food bank in Canada was struggling to get enough donations of fresh produce, they decided to try growing it themselves. At the Mississauga Food Bank, in a large city near Toronto, a new ...
Students in teacher Glen Hedelson’s Environmental Science II Class at Bel Air High School are learning alternative methods of food production in their new aquaponics lab. Hedelson was able to convert ...
A howling wind sweeps through the desert valley in Tecopa, California, on a sunny weekday morning, kicking up sand and portending a storm. But inside the greenhouse at the Desert Bloom Eco Farm, all ...
One of the first things you notice about Verticulture, an aquaponic farm built on the top floor of the old Pfizer factory in Brooklyn, is the smell: ammonia and a slight funk of moss. The air is hot ...
There’s an aqua house tucked away in a residential neighborhood just off Bell Road in Glendale. It looks much like all the other homes in the neighborhood. But step behind the gates and you’ll find ...