These fruits and vegetables will thrive and produce delicious food most easily. Leafy lettuce is probably the most commonly grown aquaponic plant, mainly because it is also the simplest and the most ...

How Aquaponics Works, Types, and Pros and Cons. Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism ...

I grew up in Iowa, so I’ve spent a fair amount of time around farms. I’m well acquainted with tractors, silos, red barns and fields as far as the eye can see. So when I walked into a greenhouse ...

In an aquaponics system, fish and vegetables are grown in a sustainable closed-loop system. Fish fertilize the water for the plants, and the plants purify the water for the fish. In a recirculating ...

Aquaponics, a system of farming that uses no soil, also uses far less water than traditional agriculture. But while the technique is gaining attention, it remains a very niche way to grow produce due ...

Sometime last summer, the team at the Johns Hopkins-run aquaponics lab took out some power tools and set to chopping their system in half. In their greenhouse at Baltimore's Cylburn Arboretum, they ...

How does aquaponics work? Learn about Nile Valley Aquaponics, aquaponics vs hydroponics, and the benefits of aquaponic farming for a community. In episode 42 of Mother Earth News and Friends podcast, ...

All across the United States, Indigenous peoples suffer higher rates of mortality than other ethnic groups, largely due to poorer diets and other colonial stressors that have completely altered their ...

The Aquaponics Project, a sustainable farming effort being run out of a 1,200-square-foot Baltimore greenhouse, formally launched today with a grand opening ceremony. The goal of the project, ...

Figure 1: Schematic illustration of a hydroponic growing system that employs the nutrient film technique method. Credit: Technology Networks. In addition to the presence of fish stocks and microbial ...