These are our Food Forever™ Mini Systems--the most economical food growing systems on the market. We’ve carefully selected components to create the highest quality aquaponics technology at the lowest possible price  Learn aquaponics fast with 90 Days of included Tech Support. All you need to add is grow bed media, Hydroton (HYD, available below)  water and fish.

The MINI’S

M7.5 & M15

Food Forever™

Growing Systems

7.5 & 15 Sq. Feet

of Grow Bed Space

The Grow Beds / Bio-Filters serve a dual purpose. They provide a bed for holding your plants in place and also serve as bio-filters by providing a home for friendly bacteria (much like those found in soil), which convert the fish waste to nitrates necessary for your plants to grow. For more detailed information, go to our Grow Beds In Action Page.

The Grow Bed Media we use and recommend is called Hydroton. You can read all about it by going to the Hydroton Page.  Hydroton is made up of very porous round balls of fired natural clay, allowing it to harbor a lot of friendly bacteria. We have field tested Hydroton and find it to be an excellent and easy to work with Grow Bed Media. You can purchase our systems with or without Hydroton.

Deep-Media Aerated Easy-Reach Grow Beds are 12 inches deep as opposed to shallow-media Grow Beds that are about 7 inches deep. The advantages of Deep-Media Grow Beds are many. There is more media in them to cultivate a greater amount of the friendly bacteria necessary to convert ammonia from the fish waste into nitrates for optimum plant growth. They also provide more space for deep rooting plants and root vegetables. Due to their depth, these grow beds don’t need to be emptied and cleaned because the fish waste naturally breaks down as it migrates over time to the bottom of these deep Beds. This feature alone makes Deep-Media Beds a must.

How To Turn a Continuous Flood System into a Raft System (Do not do this if you are operating a Mini or Compact Food Forever™ System)

Many System Designers use Raft Systems. Raft Systems are made of Styrofoam, with holes cut into it, floating on Continuous Flood beds full of water. The holes hold the green leafy vegetables in place. Raft systems are only capable of growing out non-flowering green leafy vegetables like lettuce, spinach, basil, etc. They cannot grow flowering vegetables. We do not recommend converting Mini, Compact or even the Family Starter, FFGS-20, System to a Raft System because you need the Grow Bed Media to perform both of its tasks, holding the vegetables in place and acting like your Bio-Filter. But if you Up-Grade to a FFGS-40, 50,  80 or 100, you can convert from one to a few of your Grow Beds into Raft Systems. The picture on the right shows a section of one our Raft System Inserts. We have designed Raft Inserts for only our Standard 10 square foot Grow Beds. Look for them on our Product Page soon.

See how the lettuce roots poke through the polystyrene board that has had holes created in it for that purpose. Many commercial growers leave the roots attached to their lettuce to demonstrate freshness to their customers.

Here’s the Mini-Plus, FFGS-M15, with it’s added EZ-Reach Grow Bed. You can purchase it outright or as an Up-Grade.

Our Grow Beds Are Aerated, Bottom Insulated and well Supported by strong Tables. These Grow Beds are unique in that they contain Aerators, which provide lots of oxygen for the vegetable roots to grow stronger and faster. The Grow Bed Aerators also provide life-giving oxygen to the bacteria for fish waste conversion, which allows for higher density fish stocking. These are the only Aerated Aquaponics Grow Beds on the market, making them the best and still our systems are the lowest cost systems available today. Our Grow Beds hold lots of Grow Bed Media and water without becoming overloaded. The Grow Bed Tables are designed to support five times the weight that they hold when they are full of Hydroton and water.

Proven Dual-Action Bell Syphons are syphons that perform double duty depending on which top-cap is used. You will be provided with two top-caps for each syphon so you can make your Grow Bed a Flood & Drain Grow Bed or a Continuous Flood Grow Bed. Lettuce and other leafy green vegetables grow well in Continuous Flood Beds; but all the flowering vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, squash, melons and many more require a system known as Flood & Drain in which the water cycles in and out of the Grow Bed in about 15 minute intervals. With an FFGS-20, you choose which Grow Beds you want to be Continuous Flood systems and which you want to be Flood & Drain. Go to the “Grow Beds” Page for more info.

Aerators shown in the bottom of an EZ-Reach Grow Bed. Bell Syphon sits at one end. Bulk-heads, Fittings, Plumbing and Valves included but not shown here.

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Here’s a later picture of a Grow Bed full of cherry tomatoes. These plants were trimmed of their non-productive leaves allowing you to see all the ripening tomatoes and the Water-Delivery Ring.

Here’s a picture of one Grow Bed full of tomato plants. These plants were not trimmed of their non-productive leaves, so it’s much thicker and it’s difficult to find the tomatoes hiding in the foliage.

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