Aquaponics to grow food?
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Question by Christian: Aquaponics to grow food?
What is aquaponics and who started it? Looking for good info for a report.
What do you think? Answer below!
6 Responses to Aquaponics to grow food?
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I’ve heard of it before. if you’re doing experiments, then it should be for your benefit.
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October 29, 2011 at 10:14 pm
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Tiki-Man Jenkins
October 29, 2011 at 10:41 pm
what the heII kind of answer is that?
nobudE
October 29, 2011 at 11:05 pm
The greeks knew you could grow plants in water before Christ and experimented with it. The first practical hydroponics book for growing plants traditionally found in soil in water was a 1627 book, Sylva Sylvarum by Sir Francis Bacon. Certainly by the 1800’s just what you had to put in the water as nutrients was pretty well hashed out.
Ronald
October 29, 2011 at 11:49 pm
Don’t really know who started it, but the idea of it is that the plants live off the aquatic animal waste in the water. It is a symbiotic realationship between plant life and aquatic animal life for the purpose of cultivation.
awesomelord77
October 30, 2011 at 12:26 am
Aquaponics is the practice of growing hydroponic plants with fish waste water. There were ancient practices of using fish ponds to grow plants, but “aquaponics” began in 1975 with the New Alchemy Institute.
A lot of the original New Alchemy material is available online. They were working on solutions to the first energy crisis, and if their technology had been widely adopted, we would have very little problem with global warming or energy supply.
Mathew W
October 30, 2011 at 12:56 am