This garden has no need for pesticides, soil, or even water to grow
food. In addition, it can hold 20,000 lbs of fish and grow 70,000
vegetables!
As
TrueActivist has
written about before, a staggering amount of food is wasted on a global scale. Believe it or not,
1/3 of all food produced in the world is thrown away – even though 795 million people go to bed hungry every evening.
At present, it’s not really an issue of growing
enough food (though large-scale agricultural methods are definitely
doing more damage to the environment than good, and will need to be remedied
soon), but disbursing it and
lessening waste, without letting economic greed get in the way.
Thanks to a revolutionary aquaponic system, there is
definitely hope.
As shared in the video above, a 5 foot x 40-foot aquaponic unit may
be the solution to feeding the increasing global population. The unit is
capable of feeding 8 adults all year long “forever,” with less than an
hour a day
needed for maintenance.
Amazingly, this garden – which can be utilized year-round – has no need for
pesticides, soil, or even water to grow the food. And, it can hold
20,000 lbs of fish and grow
70,000 vegetables!
This technology has definite potential to
transform the food industry and positively impact lives.
What is Aquaponics?
Aquaponics is a symbiotic farming model that combines two different
techniques to provide water and nutrients to plants in a unique way. As
the name implies, the method merges aquaculture with a
hydroponic system.
Aquaculture is the technique of
raising aquatic animals in tanks while hydroponics is a system of growing plants inside of water.
Both systems work so well together because the fish actually provide
nutrients and nitrogen-fixing bacteria for the hydroponic system, which
helps the plants to grow.
In this revolutionary system, plants grow faster and healthier than
most traditional farming methods. And did we mention the technology is
easy to maintain and can feed eight adults for a year, ‘forever’?
If every household doesn’t have one of these systems in the future, then every
community will need to manage at least
one aquaponic farm to provide biodynamic,
locally grown food. This is the technology
needed to sustain the ever-increasing global population.