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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Happy Wednsday!

Hi everyone! Just letting you all know that we are going to be at the Palifox farmer's market again this week! :)
We are going to have:

       Lettuce:

      -Bib (Boston, or Butter Head)
      -Red Leaf
      -Green Leaf

      Baked Goods:

     -Whole Wheat Bread
     NEW! -Cinnamon Raisin Bread
     -Banana Chip Bread
     -Nut Chip Cookies
     -Cinnamon Buns
     New! -Mocha Chocolate Bread

(Please note: the list above is subject to change.) :)

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.