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Our Home Aquaponics System!
Will Allen, founder of Growing Power
Our home aquaponics system
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This past May we went to visit the urban farm Growing Power. Growing Power specializes in vermicomposting and aquaponics. Vermicomposting is composting with worms and aquaponics is a hybrid between aquaculture and hydroponics. They are pioneers in this area and Will Allen, the founder of Growing Power has been at this for 18 years. The farm is 3 acres smack in the middle of the city. It now has many satellite farms all over the region that employ many people. Growing Power has a number of programs to help revitalize the inner city.
Both Tim and I learned a lot in our weekend in Milwaukee. It gave us the skills to come home and start doing a similar thing here. Imagine being able to eat fish guilt free, knowing it was sustainably produced and not full of harmful chemicals. Tim has written about our experience at Growing Power and I have written about our own mini-aquaponics system here.