Aquaponic

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Have you noticed that our need for food has been contributing for the degradation of the environment and that we need new solutions if our population continues to grow. This degradation comes from pesticides, fertilizers or from overfishing.

Against this backdrop there are a growing amount of people working to refine and popularize a technique that could slash those environmental costs for either fish or vegetable products. The technique is called aquaponics and it integrates fish and hydroponic agriculture in a sort of closed, symbiotic loop. The fish serve as fertilizer factories and the plants as water purifiers. With this idea we maximize production while minimizing environmental costs.

Probably this will be the future of food production of the future which already is in course at Cabbage Hill Farm in Mount Kisco, N.Y.

Those kinds of self sustained techniques may also play an important role in the colonization of infertile planets in the long future but meanwhile we can only hope that this is a way for us to stop the degradation of our planet ecosystems.

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