Danielle is developing food that provides fish with everything they need, but also creates excellent fertilizer for plant growth, making aquaponics easier and more productive and economical.
“Aquaponics has excellent potential to feed people in hard-to-reach places (far northern communities, urban food deserts, space travel) using a sustainable, highly productive, nearly closed-loop system.”
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In this month’s blog, we’re going to highlight a specific example of the plant wedge of the Aquaponics Cycle: cannabis. Cannabis is a really weird plant. Up to 94% of flowering seed plants are hermaphroditic; their flowers have both male and female parts, allowing them to produce both pollen and seeds. Cannabis is in the […]
In this blog, we’re still in the third wedge of the Aquaponics Cycle: the plants. Our plant has absorbed water and nutrients through its roots and transported them to the rest of the plant. We talked about what happens when nutrient absorption works well, but it is not likely that all the nutrients a plant […]
In this month’s blog, we’re sticking with the third wedge of the Aquaponics Cycle: the plants. Water and nutrients have been absorbed by the plant roots and made their way into the bottom of the “Xylem,” an elevator that will deliver them to the cells of the stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of our plants. […]
In this month’s blog, we’re moving on from the microbes and into the third wedge of the Aquaponics Cycle: the plants. Our fish have eaten and released waste, and our microbes have processed that waste into a form that can easily be absorbed by our plants. So how do water and nutrients from our aquaponics […]
In this month’s blog, we’re sticking with the microbes that are essential to operating a healthy, productive aquaponics system. Imagine you’re at a county fair. As you walk down the rows of carnival games, you notice a stand packed with small, water-filled plastic bags, each containing a colourful goldfish. For $10, you get a chance […]
In this month’s blog, we’ll shift our focus from the fish to the microbes. As we discussed last month, your fish have eaten, and pooped. You’ve collected this poop as a slurry using something like a settling tank for smaller systems, or a rotary drum filter for larger systems. The poop is holding the phosphorus […]
This month, we are sticking with the top wedge of the Aquaponics Cycle, the fish. Like an older sibling who’s the only one tall enough to reach the bowl of cookie dough on the counter, the fish in aquaponics systems get the first crack at the nutrients in fish feed. The amount of cookie dough […]
We are going to start this journey off with the top wedge of the Aquaponic Cycle, the fish. Imagine a fish in a long, rectangular box. The box is split down the middle, separated by a wall that fits tight around the fish’s belly like a skirt. The fish’s head is in the left side […]
Imagine a flooded rice field on a warm, overcast day. You see koi swimming between the rows of swaying rice, picking insects and their eggs off rice shoots, rooting through the mud for worms. The koi’s waste drops to the mud, which is teeming with microbes waiting to compost it into fertilizer, which the rice […]
