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Kate Humble: aquaponics is the answer to our growing food crisis The Springwatch presenter explains the anger that motivated her to build the UKs first aquaponic greenhouse on her farm – a closed-loop system producing food in a small space. This is a greenhouse with a surprising wow factor. Inside, you can make out the blue of the fish tanks containing male tilapia (a species chosen as they grow rapidly to harvest size and as one of yesterdays visitors put it taste lovely on a barbecue) and the raised beds full of fledgling vegetable crops. Of course, there is also much that you cant see – which is rather the point with a closed-loop food production system that needs little interference; the vegetable beds fill and drain, twice an hour, sustained by nutrient-rich water from the fish tanks. theguardian/lifeandstyle/2014/jul/03/kate-humble-aquaponics-answer-food-crisis
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 07:06:51 +0000

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