Hydroponic/Aquaponic vegetable production

Dean Olson · Mar 16, 2014

I've been going to the local farmers markets and several of the venders are doing this.

Any body doing this? What are your thoughts?

farmerwithmutt · Mar 17, 2014

There is a outfit in milwaukee converted old factory veggies on top fish on the bottom. might have web site

JMS/.MN · Mar 17, 2014

Local guy did that for a while a couple of decades ago. Don"t know the financials, but the product was good. I think winter heating costs were excessive.

Animal · Mar 17, 2014

It looks interesting, but would be very time consuming I would think.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 17, 2014

had a guy at Farmer's market selling tomatoes grown that way - didn't have much flavor.

paul · Mar 17, 2014

For those opposed to regular farming of crops and livestock, I would think hydroponic would be very hard to swallow. Pretty much the crop living in a chemical soup all the time?

I've heard of a few organic type hydroponic, but not ever seen such a thing actually, and it appears would be terribly expensive to do such a thing organically without soil, just goes against the nature of a plant from the get go.

Mind you I'm not for or against, just thinking out loud.

Paul

Dean Olson · Mar 18, 2014

IF i go forward with this it would be on a small scale, in the winter, in a green house. I'm in Houston so would supposedly only need an aquarium heater in the water and not have to heat the house house.

One of the big problems with all these new technologies is that they hardly ever make economic sense.

redforlife · Mar 18, 2014

We did some of this in Vo-Ag/FFA back in high school. Wasn't real appealing to me to eat that type of thing. Basically just a plant that is grown with root system in running water with the right concoction of maricle grow with artificial light. We do have a local guy that does exceptionally well with his green house. He raises stuff in there year round with the exception of maybe 2 or 3 of the really cold months. That peeks my interests alot more. His stuff is just about like right out of the garden.

paul · Mar 19, 2014

The local brewery - we have the second oldest family owned brewery in my town - experimented with hydroponic tomatoes back in the 1980s I think. Beer sales were down and it looked good, think they were trying to use waste heat from cooling beer....

Didnt last long, our climate up here in MN is so cold, and the winter days have so little sunlight, that they used way more energy than they could harvest crops. But that was kind of a big scale deal, sometimes those get lost along the way.....

Paul

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