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HENGE - Blog Tour Recap pt. 10!Aquaponics is an amazing permaculture method that may have been practiced as far back in history as the Aztec civilization. There are records of the Aztec people raising fish alongside of crops that were alien to the growing environment, using the nitrite and ammonia rich water as a fertilizer base for the crops they were growing.
This is the basic premise of aquaponics, combining aquatic and agricultural ecosystems in a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship.
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants that involves feeding the plants nutrients through the water source alone, sans soil. The various scientific discoveries that lead to the current systems of hydroponics were actually spaced over hundreds of years with each researching building on the foundations laid by his predecessors. Dr. William Gericke is considered by many to be one who finally pulled it all together and perfected the technique, naming the system for ‘hydros’ ( water) and ‘ponos’ ( working). The benefits of hydroponic growing are many.
No soil is used ( although sometimes a medium such as clay balls or rocks may be included).
You can control the level of nutrients your crop receives and balance waste more efficiently.
Pests and diseases are easier to manage due to mobile containers and the ability to isolate what you grow.
In a hydroponic system, many plants will grow just as well, and usually better than their soil based counterparts.
And there are many other benefits as well.
Practiced for hundreds of centuries by everyone from the Romans to the Chinese. Aquaculture is simply the farming of fish, eels, shellfish or any other ‘aquatic’ life. Something as simple as raising goldfish in a backyard pong could be considered aquaculture. There are concerns raised with aquaculture. The disposal of waste, protection of local species and interference with the natural environment are issues that anyone undertaking aqua-farming should consider.
Aquaponics combines many of the benefits of hydroponics and aquaculture and removes some of the drawbacks. When raising fish (or any creature) in a closed environment without natural water movement the waste produced by your little friends will accumulate and eventually make the water toxic. Whats interesting is that the same waste that will eventually kill your fish can be converted by plants into beneficial nitrogen. By arranging a pump that flows from the bottom of the Aquaculture bin to the connected Hydroponic bed oxygenates and cleans the water while nourishing the plants at the same time. A small system can be built for less than $100 dollars.
Aquaponic systems aren’t for everyone. Although less so than a regular garden, they do require a bit of work. The small pump, if not run off solar power, will add a little to your monthly energy bill. Consider this though. With a few lights over your system, and a relatively temperate indoor space, you could raise fish and crops year round. With all the amazing advances in permaculture, there is no reason why anyone should not be able to have a flourishing and abundant food system in their own backyard, and this is just one of the many ways you can do that.
This article originally appeared at NaturalBlaze.com.
i have read many similar articles, iniquity, but i think that there's a difference between academia and practice, kwim?
A while back I read a pretty compelling argument of how vegetarianism came to be in (certain) Indian cultures or sects. Apparently the religious aspect was actually more a cultural fall-out than actual doctrine, but the religion is so vast that I'm not about to claim I have any real knowledge of it. I can't find it right now but it was such a good read.
i have read many similar articles, iniquity, but i think that there's a difference between academia and practice, kwim?
So the answers/opinions are all over the place.
I'm interested to know how the health of the older generation of your extended family is on average.
Are you sick? In need of a change to heal?
Just curious is reasonable too, as that makes the world go around.
Wanted to share links to some old threads on the topic. I've not read through all of them so not sure if they are full of awesome info or not, but may be helpful to the OP.
Here is my advice/take on this issue from an older post. (Just wanted to add it in case its helpful!)
HTH! Again, good luck doing what works best *for you*!HTH! Again, good luck doing what works best *for you*!You will get used to it, probably fast. Meat (unlike all those soy fake meat things) is DELICIOUS, and the adjustment, for me, was pretty easy. Once I really believed that I was *meant* to eat meat, that eating meat was the healthiest thing for me, it was really really easy. (I was totally vegetarian for 12 years, vegan for about 6 months of that time.) I started w/ poultry, then added in steak, then fish, then ground beef, sausage, porkchops, etc.--the rest is history! I didn't feel any weird physical changes, but I also did take it slow, adding in one new kind of meat every week or so...There is definitely a transition time (at least there was for me) from going from a high carb, low fat diet to a higher fat, lower carb diet though.
Cooking meat is where the learning really comes in (even for folks who were already meat eaters--so few people actually cook at home!) I became veg. when I was 16, had never helped my mom in the kitchen (we ate lots of processed fast food--not tons of cooking), so had literally never handled raw meat b/4 I was 27-28. It *is* a weird experience. But you get used to it. In the beginning, I found that almost any meat tastes yummy if you season w/ a little salt and pepper (other spices optional) and pan sear, then bake in the oven. That was the easiest way to make chicken, steak, burgers, etc. for me at first. After a while I started learning the myriad of ways to prepare meat, and I'm still learning (and loving every minute and bite of it!) Now that it's warmer out (at least where I am) grilling is a delicious and easy option too that can work w/ most meats. That's probably where I would start.
Cutting gluten, soy, corn and dairy along w/ all processed foods, and now grains, has made me feel AMAZING. Adding meat back into my diet was possibly the number one thing (along w/ dropping the processed foods) I've done that has vitally impacted my health for the better. What is fascinating to me, is that NOW, while eating meat, I feel sooooo much more connected to my food, where it comes from, etc., than I ever felt as a vegetarian eating my soydogs and veggie burgers. When I'm getting a whole chicken ready to roast (really easy too, I just rub w/ olive oil, salt and pepper, add some other spices if I want and stuff w/ some cut up onion, maybe other veggies and roast in the oven--mmmm!), and I'm holding it in my hands, I just feel this huge sense of gratitude towards it, and this feeling like I'm doing what women have always done. After I cook it and we eat it as a family, and I get the bones ready to make broth with (bone broth is GREAT for digestive issues and very easy to make), I just feel like I'm connected to my anscestors, the Earth, and animals in a much a deeper sense than I ever was when I was veg. It could just be my experience, or the way in which I was veg (huge monsanto supporter, ate lots of organic processed foods, vs. eating lots of local, whole foods now). But I just feel so much better about what I'm eating, how I'm eating, and more than anything, how I feel now that I eat lots of sustainably raised local meats...
Good luck to you during the transition--from one 'post vegetarian' (Sandor Katz' term) to another! You will NOT regret this!!!!
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Of course it is worth it. Read the vegetarian myth. There are very few actual vegetarians outside the Jains and fruitarians(and nature rids itself of them quickly), anyway- plenty of insects get crushed up with grains. Unless you don't eat anything besides vegtables you careful inspect for insects, they are finding a way into your system.
i think that a lot of the responses are really focused on a health (in a physical sense) focus, rather than the total wellbeing