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"AutoMicroFarm is an aquaponics garden for your back yard, designed so that your plants are automatically watered and fertilized. The fish feed the plants. The
by teach 10y ago
"AutoMicroFarm is an aquaponics garden for your back yard, designed so that your plants are automatically watered and fertilized. The fish feed the plants. The plants clean the water for the fish.
"You get vegetables, fruit, nuts, beans as well as fish for your harvest. I have researched and implemented the best practices of aquaponics so you don't have to. It's easy and convenient to maintain: just plant, prune, harvest, and feed the fish!"
For those like me that hadn't heard of this neat concept yet.
Another quote: "Like solar panels, but for your food: [imagine] being able to produce the majority of your food in your backyard, a few dozen feet from where it would be consumed."
Sounds pretty cool to me.
- ph0rque 10y agoThank you for the kind words. My main hurdle is educating the market on the concept.
- edanm 10y agoJust a thought - I don't know the word aquaponics. I'm a native English speaker but not living in an English-speaking country, so I don't know if most people do know the word. It might be worth using another word on the website, in addition to aquaponics, to make the concept more vivd. Something like "self-" something or "auto-" something (sorry, can't think of anything!). I know you have other descriptions on the site, but the title in the end is "an aquaponics farm", and this is probably how other people will describe it to friends/etc.
- Annatar 10y agoNormally hydroponics is used instead of aquaponics, but hydros being the Greek word for aqua, being the Latin word for water, they mean the same thing.
- detaro 10y agoHydroponics is cultivating plants in water. Aquaculture is raising water-living animals. Aquaponics is the combination of the two in one system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics
- ph0rque 10y agoOn my website, I have, "AutoMicroFarm is an aquaponics garden, so your plants are automatically watered and fertilized. The fish feed the plants. The plants clean the water for the fish." Do you have a suggestion on how to change the wording to make it more clear that this is a short definition of aquaponics?
- edanm 10y agoIt's a decent definition, but appears to far down in the website IMO. It's way below the fold, which means I only encountered it after being confused for a while, during which time I could easily have said "ok this is something that's not relevant for me as I don't know what it is".