Food of the Future: Window DIY Spirulina Superfood. Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment. Windowfarms. Build a vertical aquaponic veggie & fish farm for small yards & houses. This low-cost vertical aquaponic system can grow leafy greens, herbs and raise fish for a small family year round, and it fits in a 5' by 3' space.
Sean Brady, the aquaponics projects coordinator at the Center for Sustainable Aquaponics and Nourish the Planet in Loveland, Colo., showed us how to build a system from scrap he found around the greenhouse. We published a version of this how-to guide at engineeringforchange.org, and it's one of the good ones, so we'd like to share it with Instructables, too. What it is A vertical aquaponic system grows vegetables without soil in columns above a fish tank.
By growing vertically, you can produce about twice the amount of plants as you can with a hydroponic system of the same area. One five-foot tower can produce more than 200 heads of lettuce per year. And it uses a small fraction of the water needed to grow crops in soil. The system puts fish waste to work as fertilizer for crops. Tools *Power drill or hand drill *1-in hole saw *3-in hole saw. Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland. ELIOOO.