Aquaponics: The Future of Food | Aquaponics is an emerging farming technique that produces year-round vegetables, herbs and fish on a small or large scale.   A constant local food source like this seems like the future of the food industry.   Consumers are already demanding for locally sourced meat and produce, but our current monoculture farming industry has conditioned us to depend on distant and even foreign sources for our food supply, and in the process we have lost the art of small agriculture. Aquaponics is the future of the food for both the local organic gardener and the small impoverished villages of the world. Because of the extreme scalability of this closed-loop system, it can produce high crop yields to feed a small family or a large community.   Such high quality, organic and local food sources in such abundance benefit everyone involved. Not only is it an easy food production system, it is also far more sustainable than the average backyard garden.
The Top 3 Benefits of Aquaponics | Aquaponics - The Urban Food Revolution. Photo from Backyard Aquaponics. [This is a guest-post by Gavin Leiminer. -Ed] I can’t say I’ve got a green thumb. Additionally, I haven’t ever tried to have fish as pets, let alone grow them to eat. Regardless of my pathetic self-sufficiency skills, the idea of producing my own food still appeals to me greatly. Aquaponics, from a layperson’s point of view, is the merging of aquaculture and hydroponics into a process that seems to take all of the positives from the above production systems and leave the negatives far behind.Basically, the process involves fish, plants and bacteria. Those that wish to avoid chemicals in the growing process, will be relieved to know that anything poisonous used on the plants, will kill the fish. Aquaponics seems to have been around for a fair while, but many attribute the founding of the present incarnation to the Speraneos group in America.
Regardless of budget or location, aquaponics allows anyone to grow vegetables and fish. How Aquaponics Works" They say one person's trash is another's treasure. The day-old bagels a franchise views as too stale for customers taste perfectly delicious to the hungry when they're distributed at a homeless shelter. The annoying, hyperactive puppy one family abandons at the dog pound because it chews shoes becomes another family's rambunctious little delight. What one group sheds as waste, another takes in as nourishment. It's a lovely circle. With aquaponics, this same circle is turning -- only it doesn't have anything to do with bagels or puppies. This method of farming fish and crops is a good thing on several different levels.
Aquaponics, with its fancy name, may sound like a trendy new concept developed by environmentalists. Let's learn how this ancient farming method is applied today. Aquaponics How To. Bioremediation solutions for fish and shrimp farming. Bioremediation that helps to relieve challenging pond conditions in shrimp and fish farming is a promising technology. Intensive shrimp and fish farming produce large amounts of organic wastes. Much of these organic waste materials accumulate in the pond bottom and cannot be utilized by phytoplankton.
Oxidation of these organic waste compounds depletes the level of dissolved oxygen deep in pond's soils, and encourages the formation of toxic metabolites such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and nitrite. Such conditions increase the mortality rates in aquaculture farming. A common procedure used to improve water quality – and therefore the immediate environment of fish and shrimp - is the direct application of beneficial bacteria, probiotics and biodegrading microorganisms to ponds. The controlled addition of beneficial bacteria directly or indirectly alters the composition of the microbial community in the rearing environment. Tilapia Farming. AC Tropical Fish & Aquarium. Tilapia Farming at Home.