I'd love to try this. I plan on starting a garden in the spring and I've always wanted a big aquarium with crappie and walleye. Maybe I'll look into it.

I've been casually studying aquaponics for a few years and I think it's a great concept. The main reason I haven't started a project is that I already have more "hobbies" (hunting, fishing, shooting, scuba diving...) than time. Unfortunatly, this may have to wait for retirement when I'll have enough time to do this right.

"new apartment complexes and be fed by municipal waste"
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So they're going to grow urban gardens fertilized by apartment sewage? Am I the only one just a little bothered by that?
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On the other hand, I like the idea of watering the salad and the main course (trout/bass/etc) at the same time. Pretty inventive.

The greatest energy resource in America goes down the crapper. The potential for biogas fuels generated from waste is immense, but people are conditioned to shy away from anything involving poo. I have a half finished biogas generating composter, (and a gas fired hot water heater to use the gas) but I can't finish it because the powers that be want an engineer to vet my design, but relevant engineers are only interested in Big projects and have it seems little interest in supporting small farm digesters for independent biogas production. They are all about retrofitting municiple systems, which is good, but they have been no help to me and my efforts at sustainability. I think my only hope is to find some sharp engineering student who needs a semester project.
What kind of green energy should we choose? All of em. I was excited to read about the "Bloom Box" a new lower cost fuel cell,(they say 2 of 'em could power your house). A "Bloom Box" coupled to a biogas digester would allow you to fuel the fuel cell yourself and get fertilizer from the garden as a handy byproduct.

Uhhhh, Tim....tell me again what this has to do with fly-fishing, or sport fishing resources, or anything else besides gardening?

(oh, wait - I get it! You grow WORMS in the compost, right?)

woodstock,

well, nothing really. Just thought it and interesting segue from my post on farmed salmon from friday.

I apologize if you didn't find it entertaining or "fly fishy" enough. I'm sure Deeter will get back into it tomorrow.

Just throwing up something a little different...

I like the topic. It mixes things up and can be thought provoking. I'm not keen to the idea of eating veggies grown by fish poop but the whole idea of conserving, recycling and clean water should be right up a fishermans pole.

Nice concept. My wife and I would like to start a garden this spring, but probably just a very small conventional one.

Back in the 80's I hitchhiked to Cape Cod to visit the New Alchemy Institute, a sort of hippie sustainable living and technology farm that pioneered a lot of sustainability concepts. They were doing the Tilapia- Tomatoes aquaponic thing back then in a great big geodesic dome. The place was life changing for me, with the wind turbines and the domes and the organic fields.
So the tilapia waste fertilizing tomatos and other veggies works really really good. I'm not doing any aquaponics yet myself, but maybe sometime in the future. Tilapia taste good!

I was just thinking today about erecting a greenhouse over the septic tank. It would then be heated from below.
This article gets me thinking about more options.
Thanks!