A Lifetime of Aquaponics
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Aquaponics has come a long way in its storied history...and Greg Peterson has been around for most of it! Hear his history of aquaculture and aquaponics, and what he thinks of the growing method today.
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on everyone? Kevin from Epic Gardening here. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening |
| 0:05.8 | podcast. We're closing out a really fun week with Farmer Gregg from the Urban Farm and |
| 0:10.4 | the Urban Farm Podcast as well as many other things you heard yesterday grow |
| 0:14.3 | pH X the project that he started to grow the Phoenix Urban Farming community and we |
| 0:18.8 | learned a lot about that and we've learned a lot about a lot of different topics on this week, healthy soil, becoming an urban |
| 0:25.5 | farmer, just the way that we need to play with instead of against nature, killing your |
| 0:30.9 | fruit trees and how not to kill them hopefully but today we're talking |
| 0:35.2 | about aquaponics which does seem like a little bit of a left turn for me Greg |
| 0:40.6 | and it's it's definitely a pet topic of my own I love it and I actually kind of |
| 0:46.1 | started in hydroponics myself so I do have an affinity for these soilless growing |
| 0:52.0 | techniques but I would love to know given your history in the space, kind of how |
| 0:56.3 | you've seen aquaponics transform over time and how you got started in the first place. |
| 1:01.3 | Cool. |
| 1:02.3 | Well, for starters, when I was 12 years old, I had a paper out and one of the things that I |
| 1:09.6 | saved for was a fish aquarium. |
| 1:12.4 | I was really, really into fish aquariums when I was younger |
| 1:16.7 | into fish and fish farming that's kind of I graduated to that. I used to hang out at a local fish store here in Phoenix called Phoenix Tropical. |
| 1:27.0 | And I was there one day, you know, as a 14 or 15 year old, I wasn't working there, but I was just hanging out there. |
| 1:32.0 | And the guy that was working there, his name was Bill. |
| 1:35.0 | He says, Greg, I got a fish pond that clean. |
| 1:38.0 | Now I'm, remember, I'm like 14 or 15 years old, right? |
| 1:41.0 | He said, I got a fish pond to clean this weekend. You want to come and |
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