If there was ever a time in the modern era to start growing food--it is NOW. The world-wide financial melt-down is destined to bring with it hyperinflation and food shortages. Aquaponics is our answer. Aquaponics is a hybrid technique combining the best of aqua-culture (growing fish) and hydroponics (growing veggies without soil), and it’s completely organic because the fish waste is your natural fertilizer and that means no pesticides. Aquaponics USA is dedicated to sharing information, developing products and bringing awareness of this life sustaining technology to every American home because it’s time Americans declare their Food independence.

Aquaponics USA-- Feeding America, One Family At A Time!

    The signs are clear. We can no longer depend on our Government to take care of us. The residents of New Orleans got that message loud and clear. Now, we’re all getting it as we watch our entire financial system crumble before our eyes while our government leaders bail out their Wall Street buddies with monetary policies that in one year or so are going to catapult us into hyper-inflation like clowns out of a canon.

    THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN--

   Environmental Requirements:  Any farmer knows there’s a time to plant and a time to harvest. That time is dictated by the seasons. But we’re talking about feeding your family year round regardless of the time of year. So unless you live in a season-less, tropical climate, you need to place your food-growing system in a protected environment where you control the weather. This system comes complete for those lucky enough to live in the tropics. For the rest of us, we have all the add-ons you will need to create your own tropical paradise including water heaters and grow lights. Perhaps you would want to build or purchase a Greenhouse so you can take advantage of the sunlight that nature provides for free. These requirements are discussed in more detail on the Water & Fish pages.

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    We Americans have long been known for our independence.  We’re a nation of independent self-starting, highly ingenious people who have been the leaders of the world for several decades now. It looks like we’re quickly losing our position as financial leaders and our dollar may even lose its status as the world’s reserve currency. Economic forecasters are predicting even harder times ahead; but we can rise from the ashes of the financial fires that are burning through our bank accounts, retirement plans and portfolios. We can follow in the steps of the Aussies where most of the Aquaponic food growing is going on. We can become Independent of the big food growing corporations whose pesticides and GMO experiments are threatening our health and lives. And we can survive the food shortages that are destined to come our way when hyperinflation charges at us like a runaway train. This shift into a near-depression economy can be a blessing in disguise because it’s pushing us to do something that hasn’t been done by the average American family since the last depression--

GROW OUR OWN SAFE ORGANIC FOOD!

You grow the fish and the plants and eat EVERYTHING.

Aquaponics USA

Feeding America,

One Family At

A Time!

Don’t be caught by surprise. Start preparing now; and start with what’s most important, FOOD!

Get your Blue Tilapia here! Click the fish.

    Our Greenhouse In Action: On July 4th, this summer, 2009, we planted our first seeds in our seedling trays.  We felt that was the perfect day to start our life as people who are “Food Independent”. We placed the trays into the greenhouse to germinate until August 1st when we planted the seedlings into their aquaponic grow beds. We have one system like the FSG-1 pictured above and two systems with double grow beds we call FGS-2’s. Here’s what we’ve got growing today, September 20th , 2009. We will update these pictures as time and seasons pass and other vegetables appear.  Some, like tomatoes, are slower to fruit than others. This is a dynamic situation. We’re always planting and the veggies are always growing. We’re also learning about growing food as neither of the founders of Aquaponics USA have ever planted food before.

This is also Grow Bed #2 but it’s around the back side of it. We planted too many cucumbers as well. The peas died out as the squash and cucumbers took all the nutrients. Yes, we’re learning.

You’re looking into the large squash plant you see at your left, and here they come. We now realize we went overboard on the squash. The tomatoes had to compete for sun. They managed and are flowering now.

This is Grow Bed #2. It’s part of a two bed system with Grow Bed #3 behind it. We planted squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and peas in this Grow Bed. The tomato plants managed to grow up out of the middle of all that squash.

Here’s another view of the same Grow Bed #1. On this side we also planted Spinach. The climbers are the melons. They’re going to be mostly what you see when you enter the greenhouse soon.

This is Grow Bed #1. It is our single-bed, FGS-1 system like the one you see without plants above. We put it in last and planted tomatoes and melons on Sept. 5, 2009.

This is Grow Bed #4. One of its inhabitants is beans.

This is Grow Bed #5. It’s a continuous flood bed with lettuce, basil and cilantro.

Here’s a close-up of Cilantro from Grow Bed #5. Salads are great with a dash of it.

Grace, one of the Aquaponics USA founders is holding some beans. These deep purple beans turn green while cooking.

Welcome to the Aquaponics USA Greenhouse, summer of 2009.  Come on in for a visit.

Here is Tank #2 . It sits under Grow Bed #2 These guys are just fingerlings, but they’re growing fast. The white tube things are their houses. They love hanging out inside them. This entire aquaponic process has everything to do with these guys.

Grace picks beans for dinner. Remember, she’s never grown food before in her life. This whole process starting from seeds is miraculous from her point of view.

Here are some beans from Grow Bed #4. Grow Bed #4 also has Broccoli and Eggplant in progress.

Here’s the other side of Grow Bed #5 with Cilantro and Basil showing.

Keep Watching This Page: As explained earlier, this section of our Home Page is dynamic and keeps changing. The fish grow, the vegetables grow, appear, disappear, new ones are planted. It’s the on-going adventure of being an Aquaponics USA farmer. Ultimately, it’s all about balance between the fish and the plants.

Because this is a no dirt, high water saturation system, your vegetables grow faster than they would grow in a regular soil garden. You can actually watch them grow from one day to the next. Lettuce has regularly demonstrated a growing time of 28 days. That’s less than a month. You can pick individual leaves and allow the plant to replenish itself or you can pull out the entire plant for eating. Aquaponics is a symbiotic system in which the fish feed the plants and the plants clean the fish water. For the price of fish food, you can provide your family with fresh organic protein and vegetables with minimal effort.

As the Marketing Director for Aquaponics USA, Grace Sylke is learning the ropes of IM=Internet Marketing right along with learning to grow food. She’ll be sharing it all at several different locations she’s creating that all link together like a chain. Her teachers are at the Wealthy Affiliate University; and it’s a great program. If you’re interested in IM, check this out.

To Follow her Squidoo Lenses about BeingSustainable go to:

squidoo.com/canning-peaches-grans-way

squidoo.com/canning-tomatoes-grans-way

squidoo.com/canning-squash-is-dangerous-says-gran

And there are lots more coming so stay tuned. A few weeks ago,

Grace had no idea what Squidoo was. Now, she knows if you don’t

Squidoo, you ain’t doing good marketing.

To Follow her BLOG with her pen-name,

ActivelySpeaking go to:

ActivelySpeaking.WordPress.com

This Blog is a very, very, very intimate look

at Grace’s struggle to stay fit while running a

business and living her life.  She recently started

a new strength-training system called Fat Burning

Furnace and she’s sharing every intimate detail of

her experiences in and out of the gym with fitness,

nutrition, Aquaponics USA and more. To learn

more about Fat Burning Furnace, just click on the

Banner to your right.

Grace just Networked her Blog on NetworkedBlogs

at Facebook.

Click on her Widget to go to her NetworkedBlog.

To Follow her EzineAriticles under her own name,

Grace Sylke, just click on  the blue words EzineArticles

above. Grace’s First Article has been approved. It will be

followed by lots more articles on Fitness and Sustain-

ability.

To Follow AquaponicsUSA on twitter go to:

just click on the word “twitter” or the twitter bird.

To Follow (BeFRIEND) Grace on facebook just

click on her changing Badge image of her cartoon self.

Make sure you see the Digg article “Does what happen

in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?” below.

To Follow Aquaponics USA’s digg recommen-

dations (we sometimes recommend ourselves) just

click on your digg subject of choice in the Widget.

Use the scroll bar to view the entire widget.

Aquaponics USA recently joined Buddhahands.com

You can view their Page at:

http://buddhahands.ning.com/profile/AquaponicsUSA

Here’s an important Alternative Health product of which Grace is an

Affiliate: It’s called MMS Miracle Mineral Solution.

If you want to get a bird’s eye view of what this product is

all about go to my Actively Speaking WordPress Blog

and scroll down to Day #11. You can also click on the MMS

Photo here to go directly to the site selling the product.

Here it is--our GREENHOUSE TOUR VIDEO in HD.  This is a really informative overview of how the Greenhouse and the Complete, Compact Aquaponics USA  Food Growing Systems work together to grow out both organic vegetables and delicious food fish. ENJOY! You can also view this Video in 3 parts on YouTube. Just do a YouTube search for “Aquaponics USA” and our very popular new video will pop up.