{"id":6,"date":"2013-03-14T02:19:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T02:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:13:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:13:24","slug":"aquaponics-can-ur-plants-haz-fish-plz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Aquaponics &#8212; Plants love fish. Fish love plants. Technology plays Cupid."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plants help fish, and fish are good for plants too. That happens in nature. Technology can put them together, too.\u00a0<a title=\"The Atlantic Cities can tell you more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2013\/03\/farming-technique-will-revolutionize-way-we-eat\/4880\/\"><em>The Atlantic Cities<\/em> can tell you more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure>Aquaponics is a method of combined fish and vegetable farming that requires no soil. The farmer cultivates freshwater fish (aquaculture) and plants (hydroponics) in a recirculating water system that exchanges nutrients between the two&#8230;<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Farming Technique That Could Revolutionize the Way We Eat\" alt=\"The Farming Technique That Could Revolutionize the Way We Eat\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.theatlanticcities.com\/img\/upload\/2013\/03\/05\/Screen_Shot_2013-03-05_at_4.04.14_PM\/largest.png\" width=\"608\" \/><figcaption>Urban Farmers Ltd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;The net result: a 90 percent reduction in freshwater use compared with conventional fish farming, and a significant reduction in added nutrients such as fossil fertilizers. The system can be run without pesticides and, because the fish environment is spacious and clean, without antibiotics&#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticcities.com\/arts-and-lifestyle\/2013\/03\/farming-technique-will-revolutionize-way-we-eat\/4880\/\">More<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants help fish, and fish are good for plants too. That happens in nature. Technology can put them together, too.\u00a0The Atlantic Cities can tell you more. Aquaponics is a method of combined fish and vegetable farming that requires no soil. The farmer cultivates freshwater fish (aquaculture) and plants (hydroponics) in a recirculating water system that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-aquaponics","category-urban-farming","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.growbotica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}