Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Sustainable indoor urban fish & vegetable farms in Sacramento

With all the new hydroponics stores opening in Sacramento, the green health trend that's emerging in Sacramento emphasizes indoor farms in urban areas, sometimes in basements. Check out the Sustainable Urban Gardens website. Also watch this video capture carbon in soil with organic farming. The popular trend goes beyond hydroponics or aquaculture. It's about aquaponics growing indoors fish and vegetables together so that fish and plants coexist under the same roof.

An April 18, 2011 article by Chicago Tribune writer, Melissa Harris, reprinted today in the Sacramento Bee, "Sustainable urban farms are cropping up indoors: fish, plants coexist at aqua-ponic sites," explains how people are turning former factories and even meatpacking plants into urban indoor farms in various cities. Let's say you want to start on a tiny scale in Sacramento and you can't afford to buy or lease large abandoned industrial buildings or lease stockyard space. Instead, on a smaller scale, you grow vegetables and fish indoors, creating sustainable urban farms. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers

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