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Aquaponics
Advantages:
Better tasting vegetables (after well established – up to four years)
No chemicals, pesticides, or fertilizers
Healthier, fresh vegetables – Vegetables and fruits main objective
Self sufficient vegetable supply
Yearly harvest of fish, secondary income source or home consumption
Minimum effort with no gardening problems when using sealed greenhouse
Cheap greenhouse, easily expandable
Low water requirement
Low power requirement when planned for gravity flow
Worms, bacteria, hardy fish, duckweed, simple filters create amazing harvests at low cost
Disadvantages:
Attention more critical for fish care than children or animals
Water quality control biggest error for beginners – pH, oxygen, nitrates, temperature
Over feeding and too few plants kill fish
Failing to properly cycle new system (up to a month in warm temperature, longer when cold) results in poor water quality, fish shock, and
dead fish
Power outages without back-up system will result in high fish mortality (lack of oxygen, too much ammonia)
“Aquaponics is fascinating to people because they discover it is a better way to garden. You get it out of the weeds, get it out of the ground. You can grow at twice the speed and four times the density.”
Portable Farms, a California and Florida firm that has classes on aquaponic farming and sells backyard-size systems, says a 10-by-20-foot system can grow 1,100 vegetables and produce 400 pounds of fish a year.
Will Allen, Miguel Castro Jr, Jerome Peloquin, Calvin Anderson, Sweet Water Organic, Josh Godsil…….
Aquaponics Network
Restaurant/Food Network
MoyoBlackcat
Patowmack FarmHaven
Zazu KitchenRiverpark
Uncommon Ground Heritage Tavern
http://vimeo.com/5894770
Startup Success: How to Pitch Angels:
Marketing/Pitch/Motto
Brand strategy, online/digital strategy, creative development, media
planning, direct marketing, public relations and market research…….
Community Gardening/Education
Sustainability