Miller Family Aquaponics: A tour of our greenhouse

Friday, July 15, 2011

A tour of our greenhouse

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RicDecember 5, 2012 at 1:10 PM
Very cool. I saw your produce at Florabama Farms and have never seen anything so healthy. I would love to come see your operation. Do you also harvest the fish for food?
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What is Aquaponics?

Aquaponics is a way of growing vegetables sustainably. It is rather similar to hydroponics, only where in hydroponics, you need to add nutrients to the water, we have very large fish- tanks stocked with fish; so the fish give us all the nutrients we need for the plants to grow. The way that this system is more sustainable than hydroponics, is that the water is curculated through the whole system. We pump fishy water to the plants, the plants suck up the nutrients (thus filtering the water), the water is then pumped back into the fish-tanks as clean as if we had put it through a filter.