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)
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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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