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“What is Aquaponics?”

“What is Aquaponics?” It is a closed loop system, where we

feed fish, which in turn produce waste products, allowing us to
fertilize and grow plants and vegetables. But this is only the
surface of a bigger and highly valuable system. Urban Farm’s
aquaponic systems will be raising Tilapia fish as a food source
while helping to grow beds of cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, hot
chilli peppers, leafy greens, edible flowers, delicious micro-
greens & fragrant herbs all totally organic & fresh.

1. The source and beginning of everything is organic fish

nutrients, which start our system. Fish eat and grow, producing
waste during the process, which is comprised of ammonia and
manure.
2. This waste, now present in the water is pumped through a natural bio-filter, which allows us to
transform the ammonia waste into usable nitrates that enrich the water with fertilizer.
3. We then feed this water to our plants and vegetables, this is highly nutrient-rich water fertilizes
the plants & the water is itself filtered of it’s nutrients ready for the next step.
4. This purified water is now recirculated back into our fish tanks, ready to begin a new cycle.

– these are the basic steps involved in making an aquaponics system work:

What is aquaponics and why should we bother with it?

Very li le water is needed, one tenth that used in soil based growing
Plants grow a lot faster and healthier than with other methods & you will not taste a fresher fish.
You don’t need any additional fertilizer, thus enabling Organic growing confidence.
You can build an aquaponic system in your own back garden, garage, greenhouse, school or
community center
Facebook PagesAquaponics
Association
Aquaponic Gardening (PDFs Continued)
Branson Aquaponic Gardens and
Educational Center Polyculture of Fishes in Aquaponics
The Aquaponic Source and Recirculating AquacultureEvolution of aquaponics
Friendly Aquaponics
Colorado Aquaponics Aquaponics research ar RMIT university, Melbourne Austra
Cylburn Aquaponics Farm
Aquaponics News Reconciling water quality parameters impacting nitrification
Aquaponics and Earth in aquaponics: The pH levels

Websites
h p://aquaponics.com/
h p://theaquaponicsource.com/
h p://www.friendlyaquaponics.com/
h p://aquaponicsassociation.org/
h p://www.backyardaquaponics.com/
PDFs
Small-scale fish culture: guiding
models of aquaponics and net-
enclosures fish farming in Egypt
Commercial aquaponics for the
Caribbean
Aquaponics—Integration of Hydroponics with Aquaculture
Recirculating aquaculture tank production systems:
aquaponics integrating fish and plant culture
This info is from another great site:
Aquaponics Survival Communities
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heavy vegetables and fruits like melons and squash. We fou
a couple of PDF’s you might like including a workbook to
write your thoughts down on.

Initial economic analysis of aquaponic Gardening One: h p://tinyurl.com/d96vt8n

systems
Gardening Two: h p://tinyurl.com/7oxxkg9
Aquaponics for Developing Countries
Gardening Workbook: h p://tinyurl.com/bubm535
Cornell Science Inquiry Partnerships
Teacher’s Guide

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