Aquaponic
Gardening is an excellent primer for anyone considering home-scale aquaculture.
Whatever
your location or methods, the information should prove invaluable. Fish are
within
reach!
—
Peter Bane, publisher, Permaculture Activist and author, The Permaculture
Handbook
This
is a comprehensive handbook on how to grow real food, so meticulously
documented, that failure is not an option.
—
Jeff Edwards, president, Progressive Gardening Trade Association
I have
always wanted to figure out how to do sustainable aquaculture in the context of
my
home
garden. Finally I’ve got the book to help me do it.
—
Paul Greenberg, author, Four Fish:
The
Future of the Last Wild Food
This
is a delightful book to read! I’ve been involved with hydroponics and
aquaculture for
30
years and still learned from reading this very thorough how-to book.
—Henry
A. Robitaille, PhD, former general manager, The Land Exhibit, Epcot Center
Learning
how to garden through the creation of a completely balanced ecosystem is now
clearly
understandable, even to inexperienced gardeners.
—Michael
C. Metallo, President and CEO, National Gardening Association
Sylvia
Bernstein has provided the “aquapons of the world” with a clear, impassioned,
and
elegant
“Bible” to spread the good news about aquaponics.
—
James J. Godsil, cofounder, Sweet Water Organics, Sweet Water Foundation
The
United States is blessed with an abundance of fertile soil in most states that
support traditional soil-based agriculture, producing harvests of all types of
crops, both for consumption within the USA and for export. In my thirty years
of reporting and publishing articles on agriculture around the world, I saw
firsthand that other places are not so fortunate. Countries like Australia, New
Zealand, Israel and Holland rely on their not-so-fertile soil to act like a
foundation base for acreages of hydroponic greenhouses and aquaponic systems to
produce enough vegetables and fish to feed their people. Now, with the pressure
to produce more food to feed an ever-increasing world population, even
countries with abundant areas of fertile soil are looking at both hydroponics
and aquaponics to produce fish or food crops both in a faster growth cycle and
in more volume in a given space. With the correct inputs, hydroponics and
aquaponics systems both fit those demands. Health-conscious consumers also want
an increasing quality of food. “Locavores” and “foodies” are terms that didn’t
exist ten years ago. But now, all areas of the developed world have large
locavore foodie populations along with a growing Slow Food movement that
demands locally grown, fresh produce in the meals they eat, both at home or in
restaurants. It matters not whether those tasty food items are grown on a
local farm or in a home’s basement or backyard; aquaponics fills the bill for
locavore foodies’ demands for freshly harvested, locally grown food.
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