Greenhouse construction and environmental controls.

How Aquaponics Systems Work. (The systems you see here have been replaced by the Food Forever Growing Systems that are available on this website.)

The amazing growth of the plants.

So we studied every Aquaponics book we could get our hands on, did extensive web searches and met with experts in the field. Then we prepared our land, dug trenches laid both electrical and plumbing pipe in order to construct our greenhouse. Living in the High Desert of Southern California made it necessary for us to place our own Food Forever™ Growing Systems in a protected, controlled environment. Then Oliver’s engineering brain got busy creating the series of Food ForEver™ Growing Systems (FFGS) that are available on this website. Now we are ready to share everything we’ve learned with you. Our goal is to make “Aquaponics” a household word in the US just like it is in Australia.

We are entrepreneurs who are in a unique position to be two of the best teachers of this technology on the planet. Grace is a trained Teacher with a Lifetime California teaching credential and has worked as an advertising copywriter in her past; and Oliver is an Aerospace Engineer. Our two talents combine to make us naturals at this business.

And even though we both consider ourselves to be urbanites, having lived most of our lives in the city, four years ago, we moved to a more rural environment and now make our home in a little high desert town above Palm Springs. “I consider myself to be an urban farmer,” says Grace. “I can’t fully express how surprised I am at my new found desire and willingness to grow my own food. I’ve made a huge paradigm shift because I truly believe it’s going to be necessary to be food independent.” On the other hand, Oliver is in his glory designing these economical food-growing systems as he meets the challenge of keeping them affordable while utilizing top of the line components. But his true engineering talent is being revealed as he designs the proprietary, space-saving, integrated commercial systems for Aquaponics Earth. “I’m so glad I can share these designs with the world so people can purchase these smaller units from us. But what’s going to be even more exciting is teaching one of our farmer-partners to grow food commercially using our state-of-art commercial system designs that are coming in the future,” he said. 

    So here’s your opportunity to learn from us, two people who were just like you not too long ago--people who weren’t farmers but are average middle-class Americans who have learned to grow our own food. And we’re eager to share every step of this process with you because Aquaponics USA is so much more than a business,

it’s a movement toward

being FOOD INDEPENDENT!

There was a time when we were in the same boat               as most Americans when it came to this ingenious way to grow both fish and vegetables side by side in a cross-linked system. It was a complete mystery; but one we found to be very intriguing. So we decided to learn everything we could about it, eventually turning aquaponics into a thriving business.

Aquaponics USA is one of only a few companies creating aquaponic food-growing systems for the average American home or apartment; and  there’s no doubt this self sustaining food growing technology is about to take the world by storm.  It’s kind of like when the automobile first came on the scene--hardly anyone had one. Now there are two cars in every garage.

Well, it won’t be long before the cars get parked in the driveway to make room for a Food Forever™ Growing System by Aquaponics USA. Standard track home porches make great greenhouses too. “Everyone will soon realize they’ve got to have one,” said Grace, recently. “And we’ll all look back at these last fifty years of depending solely on manufactured food as the dark ages because we’ll realize how important fresh, organic, pesticide, GMO and nanotechnology-free food really is to our health, well-being and peace of mind.”

Not depending on gigantic corporations to feed us and instead taking responsibility for sustaining ourselves is the wave of the future--one that curls back into the past when great grandma and grandpa grew their own food. “People will feel their aquaponic system is the most important thing in their household,” Oliver said.  “Because they’ll see the difference in their own and their children’s faces once they’ve eaten real food for a while.” This is what being FOOD INDEPENDENT is all about, taking responsibility for the most important thing in life--our FOOD.

We’ve divided our Video into 3 parts. The first part focuses on the outside of the greenhouse and talks about the construction and environmental controls. The second part focuses on the inside of the greenhouse and describes the food-growing systems. The third part shows and talks about several of the plants that are growing in the greenhouse. Sit back, relax and enjoy your Tour.

Be sure to view the Three Part Educational Video of our Greenhouse below. Watch aquaponics growing systems in action.

Grace Sylke & Oliver Duffy

are the Founders of

Aquaponics USA