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[Heenandoherty <heenandoherty@gmail.com>]

G'day, Will Allen's Growing Power model comes to mind + he grows his plants 
in a compost-based medium as I understand it. 

Yours & Growing,
Darren J. Doherty
Executive Director Regrarians Ltd (AU)
www.Regrarians.org
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> On 31 Dec 2013, at 4:43, "Pete Gasper, Gasper Family Farm" 
> <farmer1@gasperfarm.com> wrote:
> 
> To me, fish food is a huge input, and one that is often unsustainable. What 
> examples do you know of that do it without fish food inputs (or very 
> little)?
> 
> Pete
> 
>> On 12/29/2013 02:57 PM, Toby Hemenway wrote:
>> Almost none of that is the case for aquaponics. It is a low-input, closed 
>> loop system, very different. Fish food is the primary input, though I know 
>> of systems that use almost no purchased fish food.
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