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Aquaponics - Growing Plants and Fish In your Backyard

  • November 13, 2009
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Aquaponics is the combination of aquaculture(growing fish) and hydroponics(growing plants in water).  These systems seem to fit together well for maximum productivity in your ponds or even in plastic barrels indoors.

This is a great resource for pond management and indoor fish farming.  It's called Faith.And.Sustainable.Technology, a non-profit organization which works to teach people how to grow their own food efficiently.

They have a ton of downloadable documents on topics like aquaculture and animal husbandry, .  There are plans for a fish farm which uses plastic barrels.  I have the barrels, I just need a place to put them!  Anyone with some greenhouse space?

 

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