EDMONTON AQUAPONICS is your access to information about an exciting new opportunity being developed in the City of Edmonton. Our goal is to build a family-sized aquaponics demonstration project. With this system we will optimize an intensive year-round food production system. Once constructed, it has the potential to provide an average of one 650 g (1.4 lb) fish every other day, and 1.5 kg (3.5 lbs) of veggies per day. These figures are based on 10 years of research on a commercial scale system in Brooks, Alberta. (For more on that, please see our Technology page.) Consider growing this amount of food any other way in less than 100 square feet. If you can, we want to know about it. Till then, please read on.
AQUAPONICS is a simple "constructed wetland” that mimics natural biodiversity; a nexus that integrates Aquaculture (growing fish), Hydroponics (growing veggies without soil), and perhaps most importantly, Microorganics (the critters that do the heavy lifting). Water from fish tanks flows through mechanical and microbial processes that cleans the water, and converts nutrients into plant food for the vegetables. The water recirculates continuously through each component in succession. The whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts. Diversity is the key to productivity and health; teaching us more than how to eat well.
This website has been launched to spread the word! We have the technology, we have the vision, what we need are passionate people who may share our three simple goals:
1) to grow high quality, safe, organic food locally using aquaponics,
2) to share our knowledge with anyone who wants to learn, and
3) to have fun with like-minded members of our community.
Please drop us a note if you are interested in becoming involved.
GREAT NEWS Three of our volunteers have de-commissioned the benches from the previous group that was using the space that we will be moving into. For a progress report, please see our Project page.
