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Aquaponics For A Healthy Lifestyle

Discover how aquaponics will help you lead a healthy lifestyle. With increased home and commercial development of aquaponics, organic vegetables and fish are more readily available and accessible. Aquaponic fish prove to be particularly successful in the growing of leafy vegetables, in part, due to the nitrogen content in the water. Crop types commonly grown using this method include tomato plants, lettuce, herbs, legumes, squash, melons, and peppers. Aquaponic crops have an increased yield ... they grow larger and faster than by conventional farming methods. Aquaponic aquaculture allows the grower to have a resulting harvest without the need for pesticides, herbicides, or hormones. Aquaponics leads to a healthier diet.

Without added chemicals, your crops will be healthier for your family. If you own and run your very own aquaponic gardening system, you will always have readily available fruits and vegetables fresh from the garden to feed your family. By using the proper heat lights or an environment that allows the proper temperature, you can even have fresh vegetables and food during the months those vegetables and fruits are normally out of season. For year round healthy eating, aquaponics is the way to go.

Grocery store "organic produce" only have to be 95% organic, also products in the store only have to contain 70% of organic ingredients to be labeled organic. With your very own garden you will always know where your food comes from, who's touched it, and whether or not it is safe to eat. This doesn't mean you should eat it right off the plant, though. All plants and vegetables should be washed prior to eating as bacteria can grow anywhere. In an eco-system, though, it is less likely because nitrites help to kill and keep away bad bacteria, while still providing rich nutrients for your organic produce.

The risk of bad bacterial growth is more possible in big farms. This is true because of the fact that their crops are so large that they are hard to keep up. Have you ever wondered what types of fertilizers they use? While it doesn't go directly on the plants, farms use animal manure, either fresh or dehydrated to fertilize their soil. The waste from mammals (warm blooded animals) is proven to contain E coli, a harmful and sometimes deadly bacterium. A closed aquaponics system uses only the fish wastes to fertilize the crops. The E coli bacterium only grows in mammals and as fish are cold blooded, the risk of e coli contamination is much less. In addition, the nitrites also help to keep it from growing in an eco-system.

With aquaponics, you can also create a healthy lifestyle for those around you. Using less gasoline and plastic bags, your garden is right outside your backdoor instead of miles down the road. By growing locally, you may inspire others to do the same. They may even purchase your fruits and vegetables, allowing you to help others eat green!

For a healthy meals use your fresh herbs, tomatoes and peppers grown in your garden to create a variety of meals, both fresh and full of flavor. How often do you go to the grocery store, pick out your produce and then come home only to find that it is not flavorful at all? Though this could happen with a farm, dinner wouldn't have to change because you could just walk right back outside and grab another, for free!

The time is now to make a change for the better. Aquaponics is truly the Earth friendly to live a healthy lifestyle!

By Denise Clarke - Denise Clarke , President of Action Marketing Team is a retired paramedic firefighter.

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