MaineToday.com has published an interview with Jackson McLeod and Tyler Gaudet, owners of Fluid Farms (website, facebook) an aquaponics company operating in Falmouth that’s farming basil and tilapia.
How do you explain this process to others?
Jackson- Aquaculture is raising fish in water. Hydroponics is raising plants without soil. In any system, you have to put nutrients in. Our nutrient is fish feed.
Tyler- We feed the fish, they excrete the waste that feeds the plants, the water comes back to the plants clean.
Jackson- The plants are the living filter for the fish. The fish are the nutrients for the plants.