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 with our Food Forever™ Growing Systems! We have systems that range from 7.5 to 100 square feet of Grow Bed space and Fish Tanks from 100 to 610 gallons.

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Everything you need to begin your journey toward becoming FOOD INDEPENDENT

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, all the Gulf states are seeing our government stand by helplessly waiting for BP to plug the oil gush. We’re all getting it as we watch our entire financial system crumble before our eyes while our government leaders continue to 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.

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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. These systems come close to complete for those lucky enough to live in the tropics. For the rest of us, we have add-ons you will need to create your own tropical paradise including 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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

Our informative GREENHOUSE TOUR VIDEO is on the “About” page where you’ll see our Proof-of-Concept Working Models work. This is an educational overview of how the Greenhouse and the proven Food Forever™ Growing Systems (FFGS) grow out both organic vegetables and delicious food fish. ENJOY! In the Video, you’ll see three smaller 120 gallon fish tanks supporting our five grow beds. Currently, our middle-sized fish tank is a 320 gallon one, which supports the same five grow beds. The stands and water pumps shown in the video have been up-dated. Our new systems use submersible pumps located in the fish tank.

The FOOD FOREVER™ FAMILY SYSTEM, FFGS-80, comes with one 610 gallon fish tank that is 8 feet in diameter and eight each, 10 sq. foot Deep Media Grow Beds for a total growing capacity of 80 sq. feet. You can raise up to 500 pounds of fish per year in this tank. It’s easy to assemble and comes with proven syphons, water-delivery rings, a submersible pump and lots of extras. Click on the picture to go to the Product Page where it’s featured. To see all of our Growing Systems go to our Food Forever™ Overview Page.

Our Greenhouse In Action: Planting is an on-going activity; but we always make sure we plant something on July 4th (when these seeds were planted). We feel that’s a perfect day to declare ourselves as people who are working toward becoming “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 five grow beds and over 300 gallons of fish tank. Here’s what we grew by September 20th. Some vegetables, like tomatoes, are slower to fruit than others. This is a dynamic situation. We’re also learning about growing food as neither of the founders of Aquaponics USA have ever grown food before.

FFGS-20

Food forever™

Welcome to the Aquaponics USA Greenhouse, summer of 2009.  Come on in for a visit by clicking over to our Tour on the Greenhouse Page.

Superior Grow Beds: Deep Media (12”), Fully Supported, Bottom Insulated and AERATED! These are the only Aerated Aquaponics Grow Beds on the market, making them the best and still the lowest cost systems available today. A two punch combo that can’t be beat!

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THESE ARE THE FISH--one of the best species of fish to grow because they are hardy and resilient--Tilapia. They are also a delicious mild white fish. You grow them in the fish tank.

THIS IS OUR ECONOMICAL FOOD FOREVERTM FAMILY STARTER SYSTEM, the FFGS-20. It has a 120 gallon fish tank and two 10 sq. foot deep media Grow Beds like the ones you see here, for a total of 20 sq. feet of growing space (plumbing included but not shown). This Food ForeverTM Growing System (FFGS) is placed on a typical track home’s 8’ wide covered back porch. We will be closing in our porch with polycarbonate and adding grow lights to turn it into a greenhouse soon. Watch for photos. Click the picture for details and pricing.

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