With a rapidly growing trend in people turning to organic food, there are many opportunities for organic vegetable farming. Organic farming usually involves more labor and expense than conventional farming. But for many, the quality and health benefits of the food make it worth it. But with this innovative method, you can have both quality nutritious organic food, with less work and expense than conventional farming.

Growing plants in the ground is the way we have been doing it since farming was discovered thousands of years ago. But growing plants in the soil is really not an efficient way to do it. Working soil takes a lot of energy and work. Watering and fertilizer are dumped onto the ground for the plants roots to absorb a small percentage of it. Then there are weeds and other pests to deal with like slugs snails and gophers.

Hydroponics came along as a potential solution to all of this but it too has its problems. Hydroponics can be expensive and it takes a lot of water monitoring to make sure fertilizer levels are right. Hydroponics is not known for being the most organic method and it has the reputation of producing food that has a watery taste. Now aquaponics is solving those problems.

Aquaponics is a way of growing plants and fish together. It is like combining a fish tank to a hydroponics system. Farming fish can be very easy, except for the problem of disposing of their wastes and keeping the water clean. That is until aquaponics came along. Since fish water is full of nutrients from the fish wastes, it only makes sense to run it through a hydroponics system. And since plant roots are great at filtering water, it makes even more sense.

Aquaponics creates a biological system that allows you to recycle water between a fish tank and a grow bed. The fish keep the water stocked with organic nutrients, and the plants keep the water clean for the fish. In this kind of system, plant are delivered exactly what they need directly to their roots. They can grow faster and will produce many times more vegetables in the same amount of space. And since it is a system that mostly takes care of itself, there is much less labor involved.

Not only will you get fresh organic vegetables that taste like they are garden grown, you also get fresh organic fish with very little extra work.