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Fri Jul 15 23:24:31 PDT 2011

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    * NPR: Urban Fish Farming: Wave Of The Future?
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/by/ Michael Levenston

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/Martin Schreibman with a few of his tilapia friends in his Brooklyn 
lab. Photo by Brent Baughman /NPR.

/*?The people I spoke to seven or eight years ago  their eyes used to 
glaze over  are now hearing me speak again and they?re saying, ?Oh, I 
get it now,?? he says.

*By Brent Baughman
NPR
July 3, 2011

Excerpt:

His utopian city is one with Jacuzzi-sized fish tanks on every roof, 
giving locavore owners more than 100 pounds of fish a year.

Schreibman further sweetens the deal with something called hydroponics. 
By tweaking his filtration system to leave a certain amount of fish 
waste in the water, plants can be grown in the same tank.

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    * World?s first Integrated Urban Aquaponics Conference and workshops
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/by/ Michael Levenston

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This private research aquaponics farm in subtropical Australia is 
producing Pak Choi using raft hydroponics. The sole nutrient is waste 
from Barramundi table fish. The yield is 1.5 tons of vegetables for 
every one ton of saleable fish. The Pak Choi shown here is three weeks 
old. Photo: Geoff Wilson, Aquaponics Network Australia.

*Conference to be held in Brisbane in 2012

*Integrated Urban Aquaponics
Conference and Workshops
in Brisbane in July, 2012.

May 26, 2011.

The world?s first conference and workshops focused on integrated urban 
aquaponics in ?protected cropping? systems producing organic food, will 
be held in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia from July 25 to 27, 2012.

The conference and workshops will be organized by the Aquaponics Network 
Australia (ANA), solely-owned by Brisbane-based Aquaponix Pty Ltd., in 
conjunction with the Green Infrastructure Network Australia Inc. (GINA 
Inc).

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    * Farming inside the box: Urban agriculture of aquaponics
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/02/26/farming-inside-the-box-urban-agriculture-of-aquaponics/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston
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* See Video here. 
<http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=179897>* 
<http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=179897>Take a 
tour of an aquaponics farm with Professor Alison Gise Johnson of Chicago 
State University and Frank Lockom of the Plant. Both help run research 
farms, growing leafy greens such as mint, basil, chard, and lettuce with 
waste water from aquaculture.

*Aquaponics is an ancient idea. The Aztecs practiced a form of it.

*Bu Emily Gadekand, Michelle M. Schefer
Medill Reports
Feb 25, 2011

Excerpt:

Snow falls outside a nondescript one-story warehouse on Chicago?s South 
Side. But inside, it?s the growing season. Hundreds of fish swarm and 
fight for food in tanks surrounded by beds of basil, rainbow chard, and 
mint. The scene may hold the key to creating a year-round source of 
fresh, local food in Chicago.

The warehouse is Chicago State University?s Aquaponics Facility, the 
first urban aquaponics farm in Chicago. The facility may be the first 
step in spurring a whole new type of urban farming in the city.

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    * Backyard catfish farming in Nigeria
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/11/27/backyard-catfish-farming-in-nigeria-2/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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* Watch the video here. 
<http://video.answers.com/catfish-farming-in-nigeria-444634718>* The 
photo above is by Emmanuel Audu. His website is Catfish Farming in 
Nigeria here. <http://catfishfarminginnigeria.blogspot.com/>

*Nigeria has to import fish to make up for the short fall in their 
domestic catch. But in downtown Lagos there is solution: farming 
lungfish, also know as catfish

*Excerpt from: ?Nigeria: Catfish Farming ? a Reliable Investment?

By Taiwo Bernard
Vanguard
14 April 2009

Lagos  Many species of fish are farm produced all over the world, but 
Catfish is taking the lead because of its uniqueness.

Data available shows that 260 million kilogrammes of Catfish was 
produced compared to five million kilogrammes of Tilapia, 7.7 million 
kilogrammes of Crawfish/ Crayfish/Shrimp; 2.68 million kilogrammes of 
Trout; and 50 million kilogrammes of Salmon in the United States of 
America alone.

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    * NBC Nightly News features Sweet Water Organics and Tilapia
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/11/16/nbc-nightly-news-features-sweet-water-and-tilapia/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

Part 1 NBC Nightly News.

*Aquaponics

*Aquaponics, a method of growing fish and plants together, creates a 
closed loop system that some say could help to address food shortages in 
places without access to fresh produce. NBC?s Anne Thompson reports.

See Part 2 on next page.

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    * Urban farming starts at home in in Goonellabah, Australia
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/21/urban-farming-starts-at-home-in-in-goonellabah-australia/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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Wayne Wadsworth with his aquaculture tank in the backyard of the 
Reversing Greenhouse House in Goonellabah.

*His 1000 litre tank can hold 10-20 perch or 40-60 crayfish

*By Liina Flynn
Northern Rivers Echo
21st October 2010

Excerpt:

Wayne believes if more people can produce food in urban areas then rural 
land could be used for growing large-scale grain crops, or crops to make 
products currently made out of oil such as bioplastics, or hemp for clothes.

In the backyard in his 1000 litre tank, Wayne currently has a few perch, 
but said it can hold 10-20 perch or 40-60 crayfish. There are plant pots 
sitting in the pipes running around the tank, which are watered with the 
nutrient rich tank water. Deep-rooted plants are planted in the garden 
to pick up nutrients deep in the soil and are even used in the tank to 
filter the water. He has created a biological cycle where everything is 
used: from food scraps which feed the worms, which in turn feed the 
garden and the chooks.

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    * College students learn fish farming in Chicago
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/05/college-students-learn-fish-farming-in-chicago/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

*Aquaponics research at Chicago State University

*By Hosea Sanders
ABC News
Sept 10, 2010

Excerpt:

Fish farming is making a splash with students at a South Side 
university. They are hoping it will inspire others in their community to 
eat locally grown, healthy foods.

Chicago State University is the newest home to an aquaponics facility. 
Administrators say it will not only provide a new teaching tool for 
students, but may also help ease the grip of a food desert on their 
South Side neighborhood.

Hundreds of tilapia are getting their daily feed at Chicago State 
University. The aquaponics facility features four 750-gallon tanks. 
There are also six hydroponic grow beds, where fruit, vegetables and 
herbs are planted in water instead of the ground.

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    * Fish Farms, With a Side of Greens
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/09/27/fish-farms-with-a-side-of-greens/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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Sweet Water Organics, an aquaponics company in Milwaukee, raises perch 
and leafy green vegetables. Photo by Jeff Redmon.

*Aquaponics  a combination of aquaculture, or fish cultivation, and 
hydroponics

*By Genevieve Roberts
New York Times
September 27, 2010

Excerpt:

In Australia, where farmers have struggled with drought for the past 
decade, backyard aquaponic systems have grown in popularity. Joel 
Malcolm, who opened the world?s first aquaponics retail store, Backyard 
Aquaponics, in the Australian city of Perth, sells about 300 systems a year.

?With water restrictions enforced in almost every city around the 
country, people just can?t have their traditional vegetable garden,? he 
said. ?Being able to produce your own chemical-free fish and vegetables 
in your own backyard not only saves money but also provides enjoyment 
and satisfaction. Lately there have been quite a few schools installing 
systems here as learning tools for the kids.?

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    * Harvest produce at the grocery store
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/by/ Michael Levenston

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*Agropolis combines hydroponic, aeroponic and aquaponic farming

*By Alyssa Danigelis
Discovery News
Sept. 1, 2010

Excerpt:

There?s a big push lately for eating local. Restaurants like to promote 
menus with ingredients harvested locally and grocery stores advertise 
produce grown on nearby farms.

A concept for a grocery store that actually grows its own fruits and 
vegetables on site is taking the ?local? adage to an entirely new level.

The do-it-yourself grocery store concept called Agropolis combines 
hydroponic, aeroponic and aquaponic farming to grow vegetables without 
soil in an urban environment. Shoppers will come in and see all the 
produce growing on-site and point to what they want. Nutrients from fish 
in aquaculture tanks goes to feed the plants, and the whole place 
becomes an ecosystem. A restaurant there will also serve produce from 
the urban farm.

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    * Urban farm in Racine is no fish tale
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/07/16/urban-farm-in-racine-is-no-fish-tale/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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Johanna (Jo) Hearron-Heineman checks the water lines on hydroponic 
butter lettuce, grown in a Racine industrial building on the fourth 
floor. The water for the lettuce comes from the tilapia also raised on 
site. Hearron-Heineman operates the business with her husband Joe 
Heineman, doing business as Natural Green Farms. Photo by Kristyna 
Wentz-Graff.

*Old factory now home to tilapia, lettuce

*By Karen Herzog
Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
July 15, 2010

Excerpt:

Racine ? Imagine raising vegetables in an abandoned, four-story 
manufacturing building. And doing it without soil.

An old JI Case building once used to manufacture plows for farm fields 
is being transformed into a dirtless vertical farm where fish and 
lettuce are grown in a symbiotic system.

The farm, in a part of the city that once was an industrial hub, 
potentially could produce the same amount of food as 40 acres of land 
without the use of pesticides or fertilizer, according to the 
entrepreneurs behind Natural Green Farms at 615 Marquette St.

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    * Fish Are JumpingOff Assembly Line
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/by/ Michael Levenston

fishnet For a few weekends this spring, perch-lovers lined up to buy 
whole fish for $5 each. It takes three or four perch to get a pound of 
fillet. More fish should be big enough to sell by late summer. Photo by 
Jon Lowenstein. See more with the article.

*Perch, Loved in Milwaukee but Decimated in Lake Michigan, Find New Life 
in an Old Factory; On the Side: Fresh Produce

*By Joe Barrett
Wall Street Journal
May 14, 2010

Excerpt:

MILWAUKEEJosh Fraundorf remembers when yellow perch were so plentiful 
in Lake Michigan that people pulled out all they could eat with just a 
bamboo pole and some worms.

Now, they have to come to places like this old factory south of downtown.

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    * ?The time is right? for seafood farming in the city, proponents
    say
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/04/17/%e2%80%98the-time-is-right%e2%80%99-for-seafood-farming-in-the-city-proponents-say/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

fishstudent Student Melanie Christion, 17, tends to the fish farm at 
Chicago High School of Agricultural Science, which is raising 1,000 
tilapia. The school?s farm operates at commercial grade, but not on a 
commercial scale. Photo by Zbigniew Bzdak, Chicago Tribune

*Raising fish in an urban areas

*By Lisa Pevtzow,
Chicago Tribune
April 16, 2010

Excerpt:

The idea of a fish farm in the middle of the city can seem quirky. 
Sometimes when 6th Ward Ald. Freddrenna Lyle brings up the subject, 
?people look at me as if they thought I had two heads,? she said.

But raising fish in an urban area is a clean, organic way to grow food, 
proponents say. It puts vacant lots and old industrial buildings to good 
use, which is why another alderman has become a proponent, and creates 
jobs. If done right, advocates say, there?s no smell and no pollution, 
since the fish wastewater is recirculated to irrigate vegetables and herbs.

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    * Making Urban Farming Scalable With Fish
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/01/24/making-urban-farming-scalable-with-fish/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

cityscape

*Why aquaponics may be the future of urban farming, and one solution to 
our local food problem.

*Adam Starr
GOOD Blog
January 12, 2010

Excerpts:

Cityscape hopes to launch its first farm in the first half of 2010. 
Their aquaponic greenhouses would be built in vacant lots and on 
rooftops. To start out, they are considering sites in San Francisco?s 
sunnier southern and eastern zones to capture plentiful solar energy. To 
monetize, Cityscape will serve as a wholesaler to local distributors and 
restaurants as well as operate a weekly farmers market. Yohay says there 
is interest from Bay Area restaurants enthusiastic about hyper-local and 
organic produce like strawberries and tomatoes being produced even in 
the off-season. That?s another advantage of hydroponic farming: the 
changing temperatures and seasons do not limit the indoor growing cycles.

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    * Wisconsin Foodie TV Show visits Sweet Water Organics? fish
    vegetable farm
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2009/11/08/wisconsin-foodie-tv-show-visits-sweet-water-organics-fish-vegetable-farm/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

Part 1. The Sweet Water Organics fish vegetable farm is in a 10,000 sq. 
ft. old Milwaukee factory building.

*Sweet Water Organics

*?Sweet Water Organics is the first major commercial upgrading of 
MacArthur genius Will Allen?s aquaculture methodologies, i.e. a 
three-tiered, aquaponic, bio-intensive fish-vegetable garden. Sweet 
Water is the anchor project in the transformation of a massive 
industrial building in an ?industrial slum? into a show-case of the 
potential of living technologies and high-value added urban agriculture.

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    * Aquaponics Projects ? growing fish and vegetables
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2009/10/08/aquaponics-projects-growing-fish-and-vegetables/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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Kenyan project. Larger image here. 
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*Aquaponic Greenhouse Prototype for Kenya

*By Faith And Sustainable Technologies

Prototype aquaponic (combination of hydroponics and aquaculture) system 
using 700 gallon elevated ferro-cement flood tank technology developed 
by Travis W. Hughey which uses no float switches, electronic timers or 
microprocessors to control the flood and drain parameters of the system. 
It is a large version of the flood tank in the ?Barrel-Ponics? manual 
found on this site as a free download. The system uses approximately 400 
gallons of water per flood cycle. There are 37 barrel half growbeds also 
of Travis?s design incorporated. In the shallow pond water hyacinth and 
water lettuce are grown for fish feed.

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    * Gone Fishin? Project ? Catch and Eat Trout in a Downtown Toronto
    Pool
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2008/10/07/gone-fishin%e2%80%99-project-catch-and-eat-trout-in-a-downtown-toronto-pool/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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Photo by Tyler Anderson/National Post

For the past six years, staff at Scadding Park Community Centre have 
drained the pool of its chlorinated water, filled it with freshwater and 
dumped in 1,000 rainbow trout for a week of fishing.

So instead of taking people to the fish, Scadding Court brings the fish 
to them. Several school groups stream through each day; the pool is also 
open to the public after school hours for $8 per person. Two fish are 
included in the price, but gutting costs an extra 75 ¢.

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    * Farm Fountain ? growing edible and ornamental fish and plants
    indoors
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2008/09/19/farm-fountain-growing-edible-and-ornamental-fish-and-plants-indoors/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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*Farm Fountain is a collaborative project by artists Ken Rinaldo and Amy 
Youngs. See their beautiful videos, photos and a web cam! 
<http://www.farmfountain.com/index.html>

*Farm Fountain is a system for growing edible and ornamental fish and 
plants in a constructed, indoor ecosystem. Based on the concept of 
aquaponics, this hanging garden fountain uses a simple pond pump, along 
with gravity to flow the nutrients from fish waste through the plant 
roots. The plants and bacteria in the system serve to cleanse and purify 
the water for the fish.

This project is an experiment in local, sustainable agriculture and 
recycling. It utilizes 2-liter plastic soda bottles as planters and 
continuously recycles the water in the system to create a symbiotic 
relationship between edible plants, fish and humans.

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    * Tilapia Farming at Home
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2008/05/21/tilapia-farming-at-home/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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?I currently have in my backyard, a facility that I designed and built 
myself, that is capable of producing about 2000 pounds of tilapia per 
year. That is over 38 pounds of fish per week!

?These are the 500 gallon pools; the big 5000 gallon tank and the 400 
gallon ?catch of the day? tank are on the other side of the storage 
sheds. Check out the tomato plants on the left, the fruit bearing banana 
in the center, and the papaya right in front of it. What you don?t see 
are the red onions, the pineapple, the chilli peppers, the red and green 
bell peppers, the thyme, parsley, greek oregano, sugar cane, and 
cilantro plants. Outside I have Mandarin oranges, Valencia oranges, 
grapefruit, Japanese plum, cassava (yuca), and blackberry plants.?

*Go to the web site of Edgar F. Sanchez, Orlando, Florida; owner of 
Tilapia Vita Farms. <http://tilapiafarmingathome.com/default.aspx>

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    *Ecocity Farm <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2008/02/15/ecocity-farm/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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?Ecocity Farm is an improved aquaponics system of food production which 
combines the breeding of fish with the growing of vegetables and, 
importantly, is designed for use in areas where farmland is at a premium 
? namely the urban, village and suburban environments where 75 per cent 
of the world?s population live.

?The Ecocity Farm produces more food per square metre than any other 
farming system, because unlike existing aquaponic systems, the Ecocity 
Farm produces little to no waste. All solid wastes within the system are 
converted into nutrients (through a biofilter) and used to ?nourish? the 
vegetables. The system is also drought proof as all water is continually 
recycled within the system.?

*Link to short video. Video loads slowly. 
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    * Growing Power ? An Urban Agriculture and Education Center
    <http://www.cityfarmer.info/2007/12/24/growing-power-an-urban-agriculture-and-education-center/>*

/by/ Michael Levenston

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?Will?s newest aquaculture houses are built in simple plastic hoop 
houses with the fish tanks buried in the ground to increase insulation 
and allow the use of inexpensive pond liner vs. stand alone tanks in an 
attempt to cut costs and reduce energy inputs. The last greenhouse 
system he took us through was built for $5000 plus labor, and several 
hundred pots of greens and vegetables that were basking in the warm 
humid air.?

*Link to this article about Growing Power. 
<http://groovygreen.com/groove/?p=2223>

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