Is Aquaponics the Future of Farming?

To enjoy sustainable healthy eating in the future we will need to explore new farming technologies.  One such new technology is called aquaponics.

Aquaponics — a combination of aquaculture, or fish cultivation, and hydroponics, or water-based planting — utilizes a symbiotic relationship between fish and plants. Fish waste provides nutrients for the plants, which in turn filter the water in which the fish live. Cuttings from plant are composted to create food for worms, which provide food for the fish, completing the cycle.

“Aquaponics is a method of delivering multiple crops with minimum input, through a closed-loop method of farming,” said Charlie Price, founder of Aquaponics UK, the nonprofit organization that runs the farm.
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Americans Can't Meet Easy Healthy Eating Goals?

Is it so hard, as a healthy eating goal, to eat fruit at least twice a day and vegetables three times or more?

Evidently, yes.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surveyed hundreds of thousands of people to see how Americans were doing on some remarkably modest goals for better eating.

The findings? When it comes to fruit, we're actually eating less than we did in 2000. Vegetable consumption is flat. The results appear in the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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