Aquaponics — the combination of aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (the soil-less growing of plants) that grows fish and plants together in one integrated system.
Deepwater Farms is doing that in Calgary.
Reid Henuset and Paul Shumlich of Deepwater Farms by the Calgary Herald
Reid Henuset and Paul Shumlich of Deepwater Farms by the Calgary Herald
This urban farm, located in a 10,000-square-foot building, is the city’s first commercial-scale aquaponics facility — meaning it combines hydroponics and aquaculture to raise both leafy greens and fish. Giant tanks house as many as 10,000 fish of varying ages and sizes (currently, Deepwater is raising sea bass), and the waste from the fish is then broken down into nitrates that are used to fertilize the racks upon racks of lettuce, herbs and other greens growing under giant LED lights.
The unconventional technology has given Deepwater the capacity to harvest about 450 kilograms a week of organic, locally grown produce. The company expects to triple that output once it is fully ramped up in late 2019. It can also harvest about 900 kilograms of fish a month — fresh, sustainable seafood that can go straight to the plates of landlocked Calgarians.
How cool is that?!!
November 21, 2018
Now that is cool.
Coffee is on
Yes. 🙂
hopefully the way of the future for all the hungry mouths to feed.
yes. very cool indeed. productive and clean.
Scientists are starting to experiment with high-tech farming, growing plants under LEDs to make them flavorful and nutritious. And also growing them more efficiently, of course. It’s exciting stuff.
that is “way cool” indeed…
🙂
I’ve actually been inside an aquaponics greenhouse — on the farm of my brother-in-law and his wife, a little over 20 miles from us.
Quite cool, indeed!
That’s neat. I would love to see one.