I first wrote about Fishless Cycling for aquaponics systems in November, 2010 based on research I had done in cichlid raising, and since then it has become a generally accepted way to start up an aquaponics system.  However, over the past year and a half we have improved the technique.   I’d like to share our [...]

I’m on a Frontier Airlines flight from Tampa,FL to Denver, exhausted but exhilarated.  Yesterday we concluded the first two sessions of the Green Acres Aquaponic Farming Complete Course.  All the organization, marketing, registrations, presentation writing, travel, and a thousand other tasks are done! We have been planning this since just after the Aquaponics Association conference [...]

This is a guest blog post written by Gina Cavaliero,  of Green Acre Organics.  What follows are Gina’s reflections on how much their commercial systems have expanded in the past year and a half, and how far they have come from the poor training they originally received to all that they have learned and are [...]

This past week I attended and gave two presentations on Aquaponics at the Aquaculture America Conference in Las Vegas.  Ed Aneshansley from the Aquaculture Engineering Society pulled together a group of five aquaponics folks and gave us two topics apiece with 15 minutes each in which to present them.  I was given “Beginner and Hobbyist [...]

When I was a member of the team that developed the AeroGarden (2003 – 2009), our entire design focus could be summed up in one thought – We were taking hydroponics out of the closet by creating a system that was sufficiently attractive and functional to earn an esteemed position in someone’s kitchen.  We spent [...]