Grow Food with Less Water with Living Aquaponics
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
What is “Living Aquaponics”? It’s a system that plays more with nature instead of isolating an aquaponic system from nature. Eddy Garcia joins us on the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:04.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are joined by Eddie Garcia. |
| 0:20.5 | Eddie has been living off-grid since he was seven years old. |
| 0:24.0 | He's the lead designer of Living Earth Systems |
| 0:26.0 | and he's the founder and executive director |
| 0:28.0 | of Regenerative Education Centers, which you can find at recenters dot org. Today we're going to talk about quite a bit |
| 0:36.4 | in this week of episodes with Eddie but today we're going to discuss aquaponics but it's not quite |
| 0:42.0 | the aquaponics that I think many |
| 0:43.4 | listeners might be familiar with, right Eddie? Yeah, hi everybody. Yeah, it's not |
| 0:49.6 | quite the aquaponics that you might have grown up being familiar with since it's almost |
| 0:54.6 | sort of like a household thing now. So you've been doing it for before it |
| 0:59.6 | really even existed right? So yeah I will like feel you in a little bit on the journey of where it's been for me. |
| 1:05.6 | I started out with some aquariums and stuck a plant in one of my aquariums one day and |
| 1:11.3 | the roots started growing into it and I realized that the aquariums |
| 1:15.4 | that had a little bit more fish in them, there was a little more green growth in the plants. |
| 1:19.8 | So as I got interested in that and looked in my books I was like wow plants produce |
| 1:23.8 | a moat fish produce ammonia which is basically nitrogen and that's the green |
| 1:28.2 | growth in the plants and I sort of put two and two together the more plants and the |
| 1:32.3 | more oxygen than I had I realized a community started to evolve in this tank |
| 1:37.4 | I sort of just plagiarized nature and set up with the plants that I saw growing in the stream and the water was clear sort of on its own and I noticed there was an exchange going on. |
| 1:48.0 | So those were my very first sort of an introduction to what Aquaponics was going to be for me. |
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