I once built my own backyard aquaculture system, a semi-disaster which I detailed in a previous post. I wasn’t even attempting the hydroponics part, but just building a self-sustaining system to raise ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An urban farm aimed at providing food for an economically disadvantaged northwest Denver neighborhood is drawing widespread interest because of its unique ...

Aquaponics fans like the gardening system because it is a simple, sustainable, cost-effective way to grow food. Gardening without soil and using the excrement of fish to fertilize plants yield both ...

A New Leaf is finding innovative ways to grow crops organically, without using any pesticides, while at the same time creating employment opportunities for people with disabilities. “This is the next ...

Hidden along the back roads of Hockley is a 7,200-square-foot aquaponic greenhouse, the brainchild of Houston natives Matthew Braud and Andrew Alvis. The 25-year-old Louisiana State University grads ...

A few years ago Claude Galipeault watched a YouTube video about food security that spurred him to action. Galipeault, an electrical instrumentation technician for the city during the day, began ...

The journal Horticulturae reports in a current issue on Purdue University research findings about E. coli in aquaponic and hydroponic systems. Three years of other research about deadly E. coli ...

Note: This story has been corrected. The Aquaponic Source’s lowest price system is $795. Nowadays it’s not uncommon to see chicken coops dotting the backyards of houses along the front range. If ...