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Wasabi Lettuce? In Aquaponics? YES! YES! YES!

Wasabi Lettuce by Colle and Phyllis Davis It’s NOT really called Wasabi Lettuce. That’s not the real name of this incredibly delicious, delightful, peppery and tasty green, but ‘wasabi lettuce’ is what we call it when we point it out to the people on tours at the Portable Farms’® Research and Development Center. When they are …

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Buy a Portable Farms® Aquaponics System – Grow Your Own Food

Buy a Portable Farms® Aquaponics System Build, own and operate your own backyard aquaponics system.One module of Portable Farms Aquaponics Systems feeds a family of eight year round.Install twenty to thirty modules and sell the food you grow in a commercial aquaponics operation. To find out what is IN the Portable Farms® Kit and what …

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Smokers Trasmit Virus in Portable Farms

Tobacco Mosaic Virus – by Colle and Phyllis Davis Tomato mosaic virus cause yellowing and stunting of tomato plants and cuts yield production. The effects of tobacco mosaic virus on a tomato plant. NO SMOKING ALLOWED IN THE GREENHOUSE. AND NO SMOKERS ALLOWED IN THE GREENHOUSE WHO HAVE BEEN SMOKING OUTSIDE THE GREENHOUSE. NO VAPING …

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Locally Grown Pesticide-Free Vegetables Taste Great!

Locally Grown, Pesticide-Free Vegetables Are Healthy and Tasty  – by Colle and Phyllis Davis Ready to harvest Tilapia (11″ – 1.25 pounds) in a Portable Farms Aquaponics System. See how clear the water is in the fish tanks? That’s because of our CAD pump that removes the fish waste from the fish tanks TWICE per …

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Feeding the Hungry with Portable Farms®

Feeding the Hungry with Portable Farms® – by Colle and Phyllis Davis As we find ourselves in the midst of pandemic and unemployment, there is a way to help those as close as your family or as inclusive as your community or even a larger section of the earth by installing an aquaponics system. Now …

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Our Aquaponic’s Course is Fun and Easy – JOIN THE PORTABLE FARMS® FAMILY

Our Aquaponic’s Course is Fast, Fun, and Easy – JOIN THE PORTABLE FARMS® FAMILY Feed 2 or 200  The more Grow Tables you build, the more food you can grow and the more people you can feed. Portable Farms® Aquaponics Systems A small back yard Portable Farms Aquaponics System. Aquaponics is easier and more productive …

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Duckweed to Feed Tilapia in Aquaponics – The Food of the Future

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Duckweed to Feed Tilapia in Aquaponics – The Food of the Future– by Colle and Phyllis Davis Duckweed MAY be the food of the future. Grown under ideal conditions, duckweed ranges between 25% and 45% protein and doubles its growth every 36 hours, and OUR TILAPIA love to eat it along with their fish chow. …

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Aquaculture and Aquaponics are NOT the same!

Aquaculture and Aquaponics are NOT the Same Thing! – by Colle and Phyllis Davis  The U.S. government is pushing for increased farm-raised fish production (in order to erase a seafood trade deficit). Estimates are that half the fish consumed worldwide will be farm/tank raised by the year 2025. The main difference is that aquaponics’ tank-grown …

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Aquaponics Uses 90 to 95% LESS WATER than Traditional Agriculture.

Aquaponics Uses 90 to 95% LESS WATER than Traditional Agriculture. – by Colle and Phyllis Davis As global warming, the price of gas, drought conditions and desertification continue to impact agriculture, the world is aggressively looking for new ways to grow food locally, using less water than is required by traditional agricultural methods. 75% of …

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Jump Start Your Summer Growing with an Aquaponics System

Jump Start Your Summer Growing. Better YET . . . Grow Food for your Family YEAR ROUND in any Weather! – by Colle and Phyllis Davis Your first step is to determine the SIZE for your aquaponics system. One grow tray containing what we call ‘wasabi lettuce.’ It tastes exactly like wasabi. Portable Farms® Aquaponics Systems …

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