Anyone who has been married as long as Alan and I have (twenty one years in September) can probably relate to how downright freaky the synchronicity of your thoughts and words can be.  It ends up that Alan and I have both independently described in exactly the same way our thoughts about what today’s announcement [...]

This week, and next, are both unusually busy and unusually exciting.  I wanted to take a few minutes out of the madness and update you on what is going on in my world before you think I’ve just gone silent and forgotten to write! We held our first Aquaponic Source open house this past weekend.  [...]

This week the organizing committee for the new Aquaponics Association unveiled its work on the draft Charter for the Association.  While by no means perfect, I think it provides a strong starting point for launching the Association at the Aquaponics Conference on September 18th. Although it was not possible to involve everyone that we would [...]

Last winter, several of us had a conversation in the Aquaponic Gardening Community about the need for a unifying aquaponics organization, along with an excuse to gather together, face-to-face, and form this organization in person.  This online conversation spawned a series of Skype calls with me and a few others to explore the possibility of [...]

I remember back in my AeroGrow days hauling buckets of water across the vast show floor of Chicago’s McCormick Place before the annual Housewares show.  I also remember the worry that came with shipping plants across the country in cardboard boxes and expecting them to look perky and smile for the crowds.  And what were [...]