The signs are clear. We can not depend on our Government to take care of us in times of crisis. The residents of the Gulf got that message when the BP oil gush decimated their ocean, shores and fisheries. Now, due to Hurricane Sandy, many of the residents of New Jersey and New York are learning what the victims of Katrina went through. We’re all getting it as we watch our entire financial system crumble before our eyes while our government leaders continue to argue over whether to cut or not to cut runaway and irresponsible spending. These reckless monetary policies are about 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 and teaching students year round regardless of the season. So unless you live in a season-less, tropical climate, you will need to place your food-growing system in a protected environment. 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 and 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, especially since Standard & Poor’s recent move to downgrade the US from its standing as a Triple AA rated Nation (since 1917) to a Double AA+. 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 that is GMO FREE!

You grow the fish and the plants and eat EVERYTHING.

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We are always pumping out a lot of cucumbers. They grow right along with the melons and all hang on the same trellis.

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.

Squash has some of the largest leaves of any vegetable. We mixed squash with cucumbers in this Grow Bed, which we do not recommend. They both are flowering plants and were competing with one another.

Here’s a Grow Bed with spinach and melons. The climbers are the melons. The two containers attached to the Grow Beds are Automatic Fish Feeders.

Here comes our first batch of melons; and they are so delicious you don’t want to stop eating them.

Beans grow like weeds in an aquaponics system; and because they are climbers, they take very little space. Just make sure you plant them on the north side of the bed.

Here’s a Grow Bed full of Lettuce and Basil. They are non-flowering plants and very easy to grow.

Here’s a close-up of Cilantro. Salads are great with a dash of it; and it grows quickly in an aquaponics system.

Here is Tank #1 . It sits under Grow Bed #1 in our Greenhouse. These guys were just fingerlings in these pictures. The white tube things are their houses. They love hanging out inside them. This entire aquaponic process has everything to do with the fish.

Here are the same tilapia eight months later. With proper nutrition, like our “Fast Growth” Quality Tilapia Fish Food, tilapia grow like weeds. There’s a live tilapia Webcam on our Greenhouse Page. They’re still growing, so go take a look at them now.

Here are some Lima Beans. Again Lima Beans grow like crazy in these systems and require vertical space and trellis netting but leave the whole Grow Bed Free for much more.

Peppers grow profusely in our food growing systems. It’s unbelievable to see how many peppers can grow on one plant in one Grow Bed.

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 Videos shot during Christmas break 2011, “Aquaponics USA Travels to Tucson, AZ”, demonstrate how we built, installed and tested three of our Food Forever™ Growing Systems in three elementary schools in Tucson, AZ. If you’re interested in seeing system installations, these are the videos to watch. “What’s New At Aquaponics USA” shot in October of 2011 gives you an updated tour of our Greenhouse, introduces you to our newly constructed Growroom and our new Food Forever™ Growing Systems. Our informative “Aquaponics USA Greenhouse Tour Video Series” (made in October of 2009) is also a must see. They are all on the About Page where you’ll see our Proof-of-Concept Working Models at work. These are educational overviews of how the Greenhouse, the Growroom and the proven Food Forever™ Growing Systems (FFGS) grow both “Aquaganic” vegetables and delicious food fish. ENJOY! In the Greenhouse Tour Video Series, you’ll see three smaller 120 gallon fish tanks supporting our five grow beds. Currently, our largest fish tank is a 320 gallon one, which supports up to four large (14 sq. ft.) Grow Beds, a total of 56 sq. ft. We call this new larger system the FFGS-50. The stands and water pumps shown in the 2009 Greenhouse Tour Video Series have been up-dated. Our new systems use high quality, durable, magnetic drive submersible pumps located in the fish tank.

There is also a FOOD FOREVER™ FAMILY/SCHOOL SYSTEM, FFGS-50 with a Module-50 (not shown) that comes with two 320 gallon fish tanks that are 6 feet in diameter and eight 14 sq. foot Deep Media Grow Beds for a total growing capacity of 112 sq. feet. You can raise up to 320 pounds of fish per year with this system. It’s easy to assemble and comes with proven syphons, water-delivery rings, a submersible pump and lots of extras. To see all of our Growing Systems go to our Food Forever™ Overview Page.

We have both a Greenhouse and an enclosed Growroom, which are the same size; and we are about to enlarge both of them by placing our Fish Tanks outside in protected environments. We’ll keep you posted about how that project is going. We wanted to be able to demonstrate aquaponic food growing technology in the two kinds of environments that our customers are using. Planting is an on-going activity in both of these locations; but we always make sure we plant something on July 4th. We feel that’s a perfect day to declare ourselves as people who are becoming “Food Independent”. We describe our fish and veggies by our “Aquaganic” trademark. To be “Aquaganic” products must be GMO free and grown in an aquaponics system.

Welcome to the Aquaponics USA Greenhouse. Come on in for a visit by clicking over to our Tour on the About Page.

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Melons galore have grown in our Greenhouse. This one is a miniature watermelon. It’s actually hanging on the trellis. Can you imagine a full size watermelon hanging on a trellis?

Another kind of melon. This one is called an American Melon. It looks a lot like cantaloupe but greener.

Here’s an intertwined mixture of Melons and Egg Plant. They are both climbers and were happy to climb up the same trellis.

Got  a hankering for delicious miniature red peppers that are really mild. We’ve got a lot of these little red guys. This pepper plant just won’t stop growing and producing; and it’s going from season to season.

You can grow any kind of lettuce you can think of in an aquaponics system. This is sweet, delicious Butter-head lettuce. There’s also some Red Leaf in this Grow Bed. One Grow Bed grows lots of lettuce.

This is a Grow Bed full of tomatoes. Tomatoes are a flowering plant so you have to have a mature system (we recommend one year old) before attempting to grow tomatoes as they take a lot of nitrates from your other plants.

Are you ready to start learning how to do Aquaponics? If so, here’s the place to go to get some of the most extensive, free and detailed information about how to run, maintain and even build (for you DIY’ers) an Aquaponics system that will work like a charm. These five articles were written by the Co-Founder of Aquaponics USA, Oliver Duffy, and they are the most sought after pieces of info on a popular Aquaponics Forum called “DIY Aquaponics”. Go to our Blog and get educated fast so you can learn to be Food Independent.

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The above pictures are of a working Food Forever™ FAMILY/SCHOOL SYSTEM, the FFGS-40. It’s working to make science come alive for these inthralled students in the Library of the Davis Bilingual Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Aecio D’Dilva seen peering into the Fish Tank is a world renowned Aquaponics expert, CEO of Moura Enterprises and a worldwide reference in Integrated Sustainable, AquaBioPonics and AquafuelPonics Systems and Humanitarian programs. Right now he is being a Humanitarian and helping the Davis Elementary School Teaching Staff and students learn all about Aquaponics Growing Systems, which he calls “AquaBioPonics”.

The FFGS-40 is twice the size of the FFGS-20 with 44 sq. ft. of growing space and a 320 gallon Fish Tank. There’s another way to get this much growing space but have it all shipped on a more economical 4 ft. pallet and that’s the FFGS-20 with a Module-20 added. It has four Grow Beds and two 120 gallon Fish Tanks.

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In Closing it’s important to also address how our family farms have been taken over by Big Agricultural Giants known as Factory Farms. These Big Agra companies care more about their bottom line than the health of the animals they raise, the nutritional value of the crops they are producing and the health of the people that the animals and the crops are feeding. The Food Movement is quite literally a movement away from Industrialized Food and a Movement toward being more Food Independent or at least a Movement to get closer to the source of our food, which means going back to locally grown, family farm food. There are activist groups against Monsanto and GMO’s. There are several important DVD’s and YouTube Videos out on the Food Movement including Fresh, Food Inc., MEATRIX (watch below), The Future of Food, Food Matters, The World According To Monsanto, End Of The Line and more. Just Google these titles to purchase or watch these important and educational productions about food. There’s a now famous quote by Henry Kissinger that says, “If you control the food supply, you control the people”. It’s time to become FOOD INDEPENDENT! Even Uncle Same agrees (see “Buy, Buy American Pie” Video below).

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Below are photos of what’s growing in our Growroom in the dead of winter, early Jan. 2013. It’s about 45 degrees F in the day and below freezing at night in the high desert of California where we live; but our Growroom is a balmy 75 degrees F and pumping out some beautiful leafy greens. We’ve had this Growroom for over a year; but went through several R&D experiments with Grow Lights. As you can see from the photos below, we finally found the formula that’s growing bountiful veggies for us. The space-saving FF-8B T5 Fluorescent Lights provide plants with high-intensity, low-heat light--the perfect conditions for massive, healthy plant growth. We’ve have two of these grow lights over each of our 11 sq. ft. Grow Beds.

There are two fish tanks and two entry doors into this Growroom. It was built by enclosing a 8ft. standard ranch-syle home back porch. In the pictures above, the small Fish Tank on the left holds 120 gallons and the tank on the right holds 320 gallons. We are running one of our FFGS-40 Food Forever Growing Systems that offer 44 sq. ft. of growing space in four 11 sq. ft. Grow Beds in this Growroom.

Entering from the North facing door, you see our FF-8B T5 Fluorescent Lights hanging over three of the Grow Beds (one Grow Bed not shown). In the first Grow Bed are densely packed heads of Rex butter lettuce. In the background, you see basil that’s growing so tall we had to hold it up with stakes and raise the lights to keep them above the tall basil.

Below are pictures taken in our Aquaponics USA Greenhouse over several growing seasons. It’s amazing how many different veggies can be grown in our Greenhouse’s deep media Grow Beds. Because we are in the California High Desert, we get a lot of sunshine that makes for a lot of sustained growth throughout most of the year; but winter in our Greenhouse is more challenging than winter in our Growroom because we lose so much heat through the polycarbonate windows that bring in all that sunshine. We’re designing a pull down shade system for winter to will insulate the greenhouse walls at night.

On the left are two of our Growroom Grow Beds with a combination of leafy greens including basil, Black-Seeded Simpson lettuce, Red Oak lettuce (by Humble Seed), chinese cabbage and Rex butter lettuce. It’s early winter, Jan. 2013; and we’re easily growing these healthy spring plants in our Growroom. 

We’re running a standard home hot water heater equipped with a stainless steel double wrapped pipe around the inside bottom of the 320 gallon Fish Tank to heat the water, which also heats the room. For summer, we have a small swamp cooler installed in the North corner of the room. We were running into a heat problem during the warmer winter days; and our swamp cooler was turning on due to so much heat from the large number of fluorescent lights. So we turned day into night to solve that problem. Now our grow lights run from 11PM until 7AM daily.

Below is our U.S. Trademark, which is in the process of becoming international. We also have a parked website at www.certifiedaquaganic.com that we’re building which describes what Certified Aquaganic Products are and why they are “beyond Organic”. Monsanto is doing a work around to get GMO’s called “Organic”. That will never happen with “Aquaganic” products!