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 G.F.A Advanced System Ltd.

Aquaculture is the farming of
aquatic organisms: fish, molluscs, crustaceans, aquatic plants,
crocodiles, alligators, turtles, and amphibians. Farming implies
some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance
production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection from
predators, etc. Farming also implies individual or corporate
ownership of the stock being cultivated.

 

 

 

 

For statistical purposes, aquatic
organisms which are harvested by an individual or corporate body
which has owned them throughout their rearing period contribute to
aquaculture, while aquatic organisms which are exploitable by the
public as a common property resource, with or without appropriate
licences, are the harvest of capture fisheries.

 

Grow Fish Anywhere

G.F.A Advanced System Ltd.
has developed and implemented a unique patented fully closed, zero
discharge intensive aquaculture system that is suitable both for
fresh and sea water fish. The system is based on an extensive
research done by Prof. Jaap Van Rijn
of the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. The system prevents environmental
pollution, and can operate in any climate regardless of the
availability of water resource or proximity to the sea. The system
has been tested and proven on a scientific basis and is now
operated commercially.

Unique Aquaculture Technology

GFA unique
system overcomes several limiting factors that restrain the output
and effectiveness of fish farmers.

The accumulation
of inorganic nitrogen and organic waste products in intensive fish
culture systems is one of the major limiting factors preventing
further intensification. Inorganic nitrogen (especially ammonia and
nitrite) is toxic to fish and accumulates in the pond water through
excretion of ammonia by the fish and by breakdown of organic
solids. Most of the treatment systems used in today’s aquaculture
facilities are designed to facilitate the growth of nitrifying
bacteria which convert ammonia to nitrate. A drawback of the
ammonia removal by means of nitrification is the subsequent
increase in nitrate in the culture system. High nitrate
concentrations ought to be prevented since, at high concentrations,
nitrate has a toxic effect of fish and might be converted to
nitrite with an even higher toxicity. Daily flushing the ponds at
rates of up to 25% of the total system volume is generally
practiced to avoid nitrate build up.

However, such a
practice often causes considerable environmental impact and is
prohibited in many countries due to environmental and public health
considerations. With respect to organic waste products, most
aquaculture facilities are designed to mechanically remove the
organic waste from the culture tank. Often, the concentrated
organic waste is discharged from these facilities without
post-treatment and this practice together with the discharge of
nitrate-rich effluents is considered a major limitation in the
development of intensive fish culture systems.

Due to the need
for daily water exchange, existing intensive fish culture systems
are situated in areas with an ample clean water supply. Thus, for
economical reasons concerned with water supply and discharge,
culture systems for marine fish (including recirculating systems)
are exclusively situated in the vicinity of the sea. Marine fish
farming, whether practiced in seacages or in land-based farms, is
often subject to intensive public debate as the farms discharge
nutrient-rich effluents in coastal waters of often heavily
populated areas. Sustainable farming of marine fish is therefore a
major challenge in today’s aquaculture development.

Our
system developed by Prof. van Rijn and G.F.A Advanced Systems is a
zero-discharge system suitable for the culture of freshwater as
well as marine edible and ornamental fish. No water exchange takes
place and water addition is limited to compensate for evaporation
losses only. The system reduces inorganic nitrogen and
organic wastes from pond water by means of the induction of several
microbial processes among which: (1) fermentation: the conversion
of complex organic waste compound to low molecular weight organic
compounds, (2) nitrification: the conversion of ammonia to nitrate
and (3) denitrification: the conversion of nitrate to nitrogen gas
and the conversion of low molecular weight organic compounds to
carbon dioxide.

For more information on
Denitrification

Key
Advantages:

• High output-
Avg. density of 70 – 100 kg of fish per m³ of water

• Maximum
freshness- Within a day from farm to plate

• Zero
discharge- No environmental pollution and Bio-Secure

• Produces
premium fish- No antibiotics, mercury and lead free fish

• Both saltwater
and fresh water

• Grow Fish
Anywhere (G.F.A) – Can operate in any climate regardless of the
availability of a water resource or proximity to the sea

• Non native –
enable the growth of non native fish in any region

Sustainability

At GFA, our sustainability vision is focused
on water conservation and energy savings technologies for the local
market. We believe that the future of our food consumption will
belong to environmentally friendly and sustainable production
driven by economic sense for high quality healthy
product.

The main aspect of the GFA systems is its Water Conservation and
Pollution preventing.
Our production system allows the production of marine fish species
in 100% recycled water systems. 1 kg of grain needs 1,000 liters of
water to grow to maturity. Our unique system enables us to produce
1 Kg protain (within the fish) in less than 10 liters loss due to
evaporation and do not discharge any waste water or pollution in
the process.

Another key aspect is Feed
Practices
. GFA systems that grow the fish in
land based tanks, enable the improvement of feed usage. Our system
allows, in comparison to sea cages (nets) and open pools, to better
managment of the Food
Conversion Ratio (FCR). Less food for each Kg of production
means lower production costs and a real help for protecting our
environment.

Contact  G.F.A Advanced System Ltd.

Feel free to contact on any question

H’aofe 1, Kadima

P.O.Box 5030

Israel

T/F: 972.97406761

Mail: Info@gfa-sys.com

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Growing Power is a sustainable urban agriculture center located in the city of Milwaukee. It was founded by Will Allen to introduce healthier food options to the urban community, while simultaneously demonstrating a sustainable model for local food production.

In 1993, Growing Power was an organization with teens 

who needed a place to work.  

Will Allen was a farmer with land.  

Will designed a program that offered teens an opportunity to work at his store and renovate the greenhouses to grow food for their community.  What started as a simple partnership to change the landscape of the north side of Milwaukee has blossomed into a national and global commitment to sustainable food systems.

Since its inception, Growing Power has served as a ”living museum” or “idea factory” for the young, the elderly, farmers, producers, and other professionals ranging from USDA personnel to urban planners.  Training areas include the following: acid-digestion, anaerobic digestion for food waste, bio-phyto remediation and soil health, aquaculture closed-loop systems, vermiculture, small and large scale composting, urban agriculture, permaculture, food distribution, marketing, value-added product development, youth education, community engagement, participatory leadership development, and project planning.

GROWING POWER 

GROW

 

The simple truth is that it all starts with the soil.  Without good soil, 

crops don’t get enough of the nutrients they need to survive and 

when plants are stressed, they are more prone to disease and pest 

problems.  That’s why we grow our own compost and vermicompost –

10 million tons of it a year.  That compost goes onto every growing bed 

we raise crops on.  Because we know what goes in to the compost, 

we aren’t worried that the soil is contaminated with lead or other 

chemicals that humans just shouldn’t eat. 

At Growing Power, we raise all of our crops sustainably, which is a term that means we grow produce

at or above current organic standards but we have not been certified organic by the U.S. 

government.  Currently, it just is not a priority of ours.  We would all much rather be in the fields than 

filling out lots of paper work for the government. 

 

To grow sustainably means that we do not use any synthetic chemicals –  fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides – on any of our crops.  We prefer to do  things the old fashioned way; we hand pick weeds, we control pests with  beneficial insects such as ladybugs, and we use foliar compost tea to help  control pest and bacteria problems.  As a very last resort, we use only  certified organic pesticides like Neem oil and Pyrethrum, a pesticide made  from Chrysanthemum leaves.

In addition, we buy all of our seed from reputable seed companies who do not treat their seeds with pesticides or other chemicals.  Seed companies that we often use are Johnny’s Seed and Seed Savers.  These are seed companies that we trust and who are committed to helping their communities.

 

Ready, set, seed!

This is how we seed our pots of greens and herbs – all 20,000 of them.

First, we fill the pot with compost.  Next, we add worms that will continue to break down the compost in the pot and supply the crop with nutrients over the growing period.  Then, we sprinkle seeds across the soil.  Finally, we cover the seed with coir, a sustainable peat moss substitute made from coconut fibers which helps with water retention.

Unconventional Hoop Dreams

Will Allen is an excellent basketball player.  In fact he played professionally for six years. Fortunately for Growing Power, Will likes to farm too.  The Chicago Lights Urban Farm at Cabrini-Green is the perfect combination of both of his passions.  The entire garden is built on an old basketball court – literally, on top of concrete.  

 

More info about GROWING POWER  at: 

 

http://www.growingpower.org/index.htm

 

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AQUAPONICS

 

 

TO KEEP WITH POPULATION GROWTH,

MORE FOOD WILL HAVE TO BE PRODUCED WORLDWIDE OVER THE NEXT 50 YEARS 

THAN HAS BEEN DURING THE PAST 10 000 YEARS 

COMBINED.

 

WE HAVE PLEASURE IN ENCLOSING

AQUAPONICS

 

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Welcome to Friendly Aquaponics!

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Friendly Aquaponics

Do you know how to grow your own food? Do you earn your living from growing food, or from some other business that is less than dependable in these difficult economic times?

• In addition to running our commercial aquaponics farm, Friendly Aquaponics teaches how to build and operate your own aquaponics systems, from indoor tabletop systems, to backyard home systems, to full-sized commercial systems of thousands of square feet. With four years of experience doing this, and hundreds of systems built using our materials, we know that our courses and DIY manuals work.,

• We know because thirty to forty percent of our students have built and are successfully operating commercial and home aquaponics systems. Both our live trainings and our DIY courses give you state-of-the-art aquaponics systems at a fraction of the cost of “kits”, AND with much better technical and operating information.

• None of the people selling these “kits” operate a commercial farm for their living as we do. Our aquaponics information comes directly from our real-world experience growing and selling vegetables for a living. In addition, all the “kits” sold by these people need to be assembled, just as our systems do, so they don’t save you any work. However, you can buy the equipment and materials for our systems for one quarter to one-sixth of the cost of the “kits”. Get the idea?

• Because of improvements in seeding, germination, sprouting, planting, plant nursery systems, and grow-out systems that my awesome wife Susanne has come up with in the last year, our commercial systems hold 4.3 times the amount of plants per square foot as the Nelson and Pade and UVI aquaponics systems do. This means our systems put out four times as many plants per square foot as “kit” systems based on these designs do, in the same time, and our systems only cost one-quarter as much to build. If you do the math here, you will see our systems grow sixteen times the number of plants for the same cost to build.

   

  Friendly Aquaponics

  The building industry effectively died on the Big Island in 2007, and our family’s two construction-related companies shriveled on the vine. We looked for alternatives in food production. We knew people might stop buying houses and cars in an economic downturn, but not food. This turned out to be almost prescient in the middle of 2007, a year before the current economic crisis hit.
  Tim had been interested in aquaculture for years, but unfortunately, was married to someone else at the time who never supported the idea (or anything else that he wanted to do, for the most part!). And as serendipity would have it, my parents had built and operated an aquaculture facility in California when I was a child. So when we heard about aquaponics, we began to be very excited, and began doing some research on it.
  The most successful commercial aquaponics project we found was operated by the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) Dr. James Rakocy. In my internet research, Dr. Rakocy’s name kept popping up all over the Web when searching aquaponics references. We read all his papers; they were excellent, full of detail and economic analysis. We were sold on aquaponics and signed up for the UVI Short Course.
  Ten days later we were boarding the plane for the Virgin Islands. Ten days after that, back on the Big Island, we started planning our first aquaponics system. We are at the end of the supply line in Hawaii; so shipping items from the mainland often costs more than the stuff itself. The first thing we discovered was that building an aquaponics system the way UVI had done would cost almost as much to ship the system components here as it cost to purchase them on the mainland. We also found that electricity on the Big Island was 33 cents per kilowatt-hour (that was when we began in 2007; it’s 44 cents per kilowatt-hour now), much higher than the 22 cents per kilowatt-hour we were told electricity cost in the Virgin Islands.
  After we ran some financial projections with these numbers and got depressed by the results, we redesigned the UVI systems for more economical construction and operation in Hawaii. Our first systems had an equivalent capacity to UVI’s commercial system but only used half the electricity for the same aeration and pumping parameters, and cost half as much to build in Hawaii in 2007 as UVI said its system cost in 2004.
  We built that design in 2007. We planted 90 different species of vegetables in our first test planting to get information on what grew best, optimum planting densities, and production volume, because the UVI course only provided data on basil, lettuce, and okra. Encouraged by the results from our first independent design in aquaponics technology, we built a hatchery, a recirculating nursery aquaponic system and one more grow-out aquaponic system in the next twelve months, each with improvements we learned from the previous systems. As of June 2010, we have a total of 5,900 square feet of raft area in six aquaponics systems, and another 1,200 square feet of covered sprouting table area.
  We figured out an effective, economical and simple way to breed and raise tilapia fry. After more inquiry and trials, we figured out a way to grow Macrobrachium rosenbergii (Malaysian Giant River Prawns) successfully in the hydroponics troughs, and are doing more trials aimed at determining optimum stocking densities, grow-out times, and harvest sizes for best production for the prawns. We designed and built a simplified, economical family backyard 256 square foot aquaponic system that after two years of successful operation still achieves good production with ease and economy of operation. This is what we call our LD (or Low Density) system, which runs on one-fifth the electricity our original systems do, or in other words, one-tenth the electricity of the original UVI systems, for the same vegetable production. We designed and built a simple 64-square foot backyard system we dubbed the “Micro System”, tens of which have been built in the first few months after release of the plans set.
  In October 2008 we produced our first “Commercial Aquaponics Training”. This training gives people everything they need to build and successfully operate a small commercial aquaponics system in an intensive, four-day course with lots of hands-on sessions at the farm. The 2008 training had 78 attendees; one of them actually built a small system in the five days between the two weekends of the training; fourteen others now have aquaponics systems in operation; six of those are commercial systems; and five of those have already gotten organically certified as of June 2010. For those unable to attend a live training, we made the same training available as a package which includes a 112-page course manual, computer-drawn construction plans, a 47-page construction manual, a day-by-day operations manual, and much more. These do-it-myself plans have allowed people all over the world, in locations as diverse as Singapore, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Trinidad, Arizona, Idaho, California, and Kauai, to build commercial aquaponics systems without expensive travel and training in a distant location (well, if you feel you HAVE to go somewhere for training, Hawaii’s not so bad).
  In April 2010 we produced our fourth Commercial Aquaponics Training with 48 participants; this training was particularly interesting because 75% of the people who attended came from outside Hawaii. More interesting was the fact that several of the course participants had previously attended other commercial aquaponics trainings, including the UVI training, yet still felt our course offered enough value to make coming to Hawaii worthwhile. We currently produce our live Hawaii courses twice a year, in October and April, and have added a fifth and sixth day to the course to cover building and operating methane biodigesters.
  Most recently we designed and built a Micro Aquaponics System of 64 or 128 square feet of grow bed area, and have published plans costing $99.95 for this system, which can be built for under $700 worth of materials (on the mainland, this is about $9,000 in Hawaii). This is a reply to all the $2,495.00 (or more) aquaponics system “kits” we kept seeing on the internet with only 20 square feet of grow bed area, the sellers of which promised the purchaser they would “grow all the vegetables your family needs”. These claims are garbage, because these tiny systems cannot possibly do what the sellers claim. We are offended by them preying on people new to aquaponics who didn’t know any better and didn’t have any alternatives. Now there’s an alternative in the Micro System, and we hope to see these incredibly robust and productive small systems springing up in backyards all over the country as a result.

  Contact our friends at

  Friendly Aquaponics

  Friendly Aquaponics, Inc.
  PO Box 1196
  Honoka’a, HI 96727

   http://www.friendlyaquaponics.com/

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L.S. Enterprises

 

 

 

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L. S. Enterprises

 

L. S. Enterprises is the source for biofiltration packings and media used in biofilters of all kinds. Our packings are used in aquaculture, public aquariums, koi pond systems, and many other applications. All intensive recirculating aquaculture systems need biofilters and we supply the best packings for both trickling filters and submerged filters. In addition to biofilters, we supply packings for RBC’s (Rotating Biological Contactors), CO2 (and other gases) strippers, gas absorbers, and tube settlers.

 

 

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We can also be reached by mail, telephone, or FAX at: P.O. Box 51033 Fort Myers, FL 33994 USA Tel. 1-239-543-1258 Fax 1-239-543-7308

For further information contact Matt Smith at info@biofilters.com  

 

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Aquaponics in El Salvador

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Locavore Del Mundo

 

Locavore Del Mundo: Someone who is crazy about eating locally around the world!

About Me:

Me with a guernsey cow at Seneca Breeze Farm in NY. Photo taken by Eric English.

 

I have edacious tendencies and often need to force myself to put the fork down because I want to continue eating, not because I’m hungry but because I want to savor the delectable flavors. I do not believe we should consume food for the sole purpose of alimentation; food is meant to be enjoyed thoughtfully, slowly, with company. Many of my most content moments are when I’m in my kitchen cooking, or when I’m in my garden tending to my plants. Some of my most enjoyable and enlightening moments are when I become friends with local farmers and can use their products in my kitchen. I much prefer to be able to hand someone money while thanking them for their hard work instead of forking my cash over to a bored teenager at a cash register who is just one of the perhaps dozens of people who will see but a fraction of my hard-earned money.

I am a science teacher at a private school in El Salvador where I teach environmental science, biodiversity, and biology. I have a Master’s degree in Agriculture, Food & the Environment from Tufts University. Apart from growing and cooking food (and seeking out my local farmers), I am passionate about nearly every outdoor pursuit as well as living sustainably. The most un-sustainable aspect of my life is the frequency I travel. So I’m really hoping this solar-powered plane can be made into a 747-sized model soon.

About the importance of local food:

Choosing to buy local food is a strong vote with your dollar. You are voting for a strong local economy, for fresher produce, for farmland preservation, and for your neighbor. My personal favorite benefit of local food is the increase in the diversity of food you can fill your shopping bag with. Tomatoes in the large supermarkets seem to come in three sizes, small (cherry), medium (Roma) and large (these mealy flavorless ones, bred for the durability, color, and size are just called “supermarket tomatoes”). At farmers markets, the abundance of tomatoes in all shapes and sizes and fully ripened colors ranging from purple to yellow to green to red will have your head spinning in tomato bliss.

This variety does more than please the palate; biological diversity on a farm has the very localized benefit of reducing the need for pesticides. A variety of plants brings in a variety of insects, and the beneficial ones will keep the harmful ones in check. Farm biodiversity also has the much more global implications of preserving genetic diversity. A monoculture is susceptible to disease outbreaks, and much of the industrial food chain is started in fields of single species. Bananas, if they could speak, could warn against such monoculture disasters. What happened to the Gros Michael banana variety seems to be happening again to the Cavendish variety, the one you see in bright yellow bunches in the supermarket. But we shouldn’t be buying bananas because they’re certainly not local, right?

I would also like to add that local food tastes better. Perhaps it’s because it was picked that morning, or that it didn’t travel thousands of miles squished in a crate on a boat and in a truck, or perhaps it’s because the food is at its peak, it’s being eaten exactly when it should, not cold-stored for several months before landing on your plate. I think it’s a combination of all of those reasons, as well as the comfort in knowing exactly where your food comes from, of just having discovered that you and the farmer you just purchased a bunch of beets and a bag of snow peas from share the same favorite hiking trail up a nearby mountain.

About the agriculture of the countries in this blog:

El Salvador

Aquaponics in El Salvador

Aquaponics, the combination of freshwater fish aquaculture and hydroponic vegetable production, is a practice I’m very familiar with. While living and working in the Bahamas, I helped design and build an expansion of the existing aquaponics system, and then ran the operation, providing the Island School with fresh lettuce every day and an occasional fish harvest.

The aquaponics system in the Bahamas I helped design and build. (These are the plant raceways.)

There, I raised Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in several fiberglass tanks that were connected to the hydroponic raceways by PVC pipes and a gravity-draining system. The water was recirculated via only one pump, which was located in the sump underneath the beds of lettuce. Water lost to evaporation was added automatically (thanks to the float-valve), and that water came from rainwater that had been collected and stored in cisterns under the buildings. The energy that kept the pump pumping came from a large solar array. So all in all, it was an extremely sustainable system! We originally had to import the tilapia fingerlings, but then started raising our own – something I learned by trial and error, but eventually I was successful in creating a self-sustaining system. Almost. The weakest link, the one I hated to admit: we still imported our fish feed from Cargill feeds.

 

Nile tilapia.

Which is something that nearly all tilapia aquaculture operators in El Salvador do as well. In El Salvador, tilapia is raised three ways: extensively, in earthen ponds or small reservoirs with low stocking densities; intensively in aerated ponds or artificial raceways; or in cages located in ponds in a semi-intensive manner. But all three systems rely on the importation of feed. In one of the many imbalances of global food systems, El Salvador imports 2,415 tonnes of concentrated high-protein feed for tilapia production, yet exports only 230 tonnes (less than half of total domestic production) of tilapia, primarily to the U.S. And tilapia are fish with some of the highest feed conversion ratios!

Tilapia were introduced to El Salvador in the 1960′s, thanks to a program funded by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Yields per hectare (area being farmed with fish) vary from 1.5 to 10 tonnes per hectare, depending on how intensive the operation is. Aquaculture (which is nearly split evenly between tilapia and shrimp) as a whole is considered an insignificant part of the national economy (less than 1% GDP), and employs just over 1,000 people if you include the marketing, processing and distribution chains. The major problems that affect tilapia aquaculture are water quality issues, land costs, feed costs, diseases that plague the fish, and other environmental threats such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and pollution. However, tilapia production has increased dramatically since 2001, jumping from 28.8 tonnes to 654 tonnes, while marine shrimp and fish production has declined considerably.

But where are the plants? Well, primarily they are not there, which means that the fish are being raised in either earthen ponds or tanks without this extra benefit. If they’re in ponds, the density must be kept very low, unless the operators are pumping out and replacing water. If the fish are in tanks, the water must be aerated and replaced completely every day to prevent the dissolved oxygen (DO) from plummeting (thereby killing all the fish), and to remove the excess nutrient build-up (from the fish excrement and uneaten food). In an aquaponics system, the plants happily suck out these nutrients, and so the “clean” water is sent back into the fish tanks (which are still aerated).

 

Constructing the hydroponic raceways. (Photo credit: Rodolfo Castillo)

Small scale aquaponics systems are cropping up here and there. Recently, Peace Corps volunteers built a small aquaponics system in El Triunfo, training local families in its simple operation. The hope is that the families will spread the knowledge of how to build and run the systems to other local families, to improve food security and self-reliance in that poor community. I am interested to find out if it is still in operation. But as far as large-scale operations, that remains to be seen. Because of my background in aquaponics, an investor contacted me for assistance in setting up a commercial-scale system in El Salvador. I’ve been communicating via email, and his operation is currently in the works. He has the tilapia fingerling growing in four large circular tanks and construction will be done on the hydroponic raceways sometime next month. He plans to sell his fish and vegetables to only local markets, such as local restaurants, food markets, and even grocery stores. His operation is located near La Libertad, which is a large beach town about a half an hour from the city. He feels he is far enough inland to not worry about saltwater problems, though he is concerned about the heat. Hot temperatures also cause the DO to drop to unsafe levels, harming not just the fish, but also the plants. If the DO is too low in the plant raceways, the plants cannot absorb the nutrients, which means not only is the water not getting cleaned for the fish, but that the plants are being deprived of those vital nutrients.

Overall, aquaponics is an excellent system, and is receiving a lot more notice these days, particularly in the States thanks to primarily one man, Will Allen (named last year as one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine) and his organization, Growing Power. Aquaponics certainly is not a new thing, but it’s becoming more popular because it is (or can be) a more sustainable way to raise both protein and vegetables, and can be done on tiny backyard scales, or profitable large commercial systems (see Bioshelters). I will be visiting what will soon be El Salvador’s first commercial aquaponics system in November, so I’ll post an update when I do. But for now, try to see if there’s any aquaponics near you!

 

More info at :  http://locavoredelmundo.wordpress.com

 

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Imagine a technology that produces healthy organic food, clean water, and renewable energy all at the same time.

We call it CCRES AQUAPONICS.
More info here.

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LUXAR salata sa korijenom, zahvaljujući hidroponskom uzgoju i korijenu, hranjivija je i zdravija, ukusnija i duže svježija, od ostalih tradicionalno uzgojenih salata. Uzgajamo, bez pesticida i herbicida, sortu salate kristalku i putericu. Prepoznat ćete ih osim po korijenu i po intezivnoj zelenoj boji jer smo ih obilno „zalijevali” kisikom tijekom rasta. Zato je
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Exchange information, ideas and methodologies for aquaponics, fish, seafood and associated products inspection, quality management and fish/seafood processing technology

Philosophy

CCRES AQUAPONICS is really a “living machine”. It is completely self-sufficient and sustainable.

And, it generates its own renewable energy using power from the sun.
We even produce our own feed to raise fish.

And, we also sequester carbon and recycle nutrients, all without waste or inefficiency.

Membership is open to any professional or student with and interest and involvement with the fish,

seafood and aquaponics sector.

All the food CCRES produced during the year is given to poor families.

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“CCRES AQUAPONICS is as close to being perfect as mother nature gets.”

– Željko Serdar, CCRES AQUAPONIC  President and CEO

Murray Hallam

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Murray Hallam’s Practical Aquaponics.

Since coming across the Aquaponics Concept by a chance conversation, I have been totally hooked on Aquaponics.

I have always been very interested in
growing my own vegetables and a keen fisherman, so the idea of
Aquaponics (being able to grow your own fish and vegetables together)
really struck a chord with me.

On searching the net and other sources I
discovered that there was very little product available that truly
suited the needs of a Backyard or Commercial Aquaponic project. I was
not able to purchase decent Grow Beds and Fish Tanks or pump equipment
that was suitable for the task.

With my experience as a boat builder, and
skills in Fiber Glass I decided early to manufacture the right Grow
Beds and Fish Tanks for my own use and other Aquaponist’s in Australia.

Some time after that initial conversation
I contacted Joel Malcolm in Perth, purchased his book “Backyard
Aquaponics”, which proved to be very useful.

At that time there was very little information about Aquaponics available on the Internet or in book form.
Naturally
I started right away to get some Australian native fish and get on with
learning all I could about Aquaponics by practical application.

My approach to Aquaponics is a very
practical one, I actually have several Aquaponics systems operating at
all times producing vegetables and fresh fish for our table. During this
time I have discovered what works best and what doesn’t.

We have manufactured and sent hundreds of
our premium Aquaponics Kits to all corners of Australia and exported
Aquaponics kits to the USA, Bahamas, Hong Kong, China.

My Aquaponics DVD’s have been sold all over the world.

Our Company Name is –

Team Economics Pty Ltd abn 53087289745
21 – 31 Hives Road
North Maclean
Qld 4280
Australia
Phone 07 3200 0272
Fax 07 3297 5154

Trading as
Practical Aquaponics
Australian Aquaponics
Future Farms.
Aquaponics.net.au

 

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