Tag Archive: aquaponics

Adios Cows – Hello Aquaponics

Tammy Clayton

The climate in dairy farming today is not small farm friendly. It’s a get huge, or get out atmosphere. Faced with taking on massive growth, or changing direction made switching to aquaponics and indoor growing an attractive opportunity for Nate and Mary Calkins. They’re just one of the family farms Big Food is happily squeezing out of the…

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Aquaponics: Change Grows in the Hood

One inner city Kansas City neighborhood is in the midst of change thanks to aquaponics, and the work of a resident recently returned from the world at large. Dre Taylor is busy building a self-sustaining urban farm capable of growing 175,000 pounds of fresh, organic food a year on the city’s east side. It’s the…
July 9, 2016
Amber

Off-Grid Aquaponics Village

An amazing new housing development is due to rise in Almere, Netherlands this summer. A self-sufficient village with aquaponics and organic food production at it’s core. It’s a world’s first in truly sustainable living that surpasses all other attempts at green living communities to date by using already available technology to create off-grid living on…
June 11, 2016
Tammy Clayton

Aquaponics: Europe’s Largest Urban Farm

UF002 De Schilde with almost half an acre (19,000 sq.ft./1,900 m2) of urban farming space devoted to aquaponics and vegetable production celebrates the completion of construction a May 20th Grand Opening event onsite in The Hague. It’s the second major project for UrbanFarmers AG from Basel, Switzerland where UF001 has been producing top quality fish…
April 30, 2016
Callie

World’s 1st Aquaponic Smart Garden

Did you park your aquarium and give up on fish because it’s just too much hassle cleaning the tank? Guess what… an aquaponic smart garden cleans it for you, turning that gunk into fertilizer for safe, fresh food grown at home. Well, that would be the scenario – if you had an AquaGarden. Aquaponics Is Organic…
April 15, 2016
Amber

India’s New Urban Farm Project

While still in planning stages, this exciting new urban farm community is more than just some ambition concept. The incredibly beautiful Hyperions garden towers will be built in Jaypee Sports City near Delhi and completed by 2020. It’s a residential development that features all kinds of ecological attributes and was designed with full sustainability in mind. Instead…
February 26, 2016
Callie