Friendly Aquaponics, Inc.

Aquaponics Grows Food Amazingly Fast!

We’ve found that everything grows two to three times faster than it would in the ground, and with far greater planting density. These photos tell the story.

Below is example of the incredibly rapid root growth that plants undergo in our aquaponics system.

24 hours of growth in Bloomsdale Long-Standing Spinach and Peppercress.

Squash plants in foreground, and along the right side of photo, on 1/7/08.

Same angle with squash in foreground, on 2/9/08; 33 days later, and I was picking 2 pound squash off a six-week old plant!

The same plant – a Henderson’s Red Tomato – over the course of one week.

Spinach in foreground, peppercress behind, on 1/7/08.

Fava Roots on 2/9/08.

Two weeks from seed, 1/7/08.

The crop was several hundred pounds of perfect, yummy tomatoes!

Fava roots, 12/21/07, just extending down from net pot into the water.

Full production in our first system a year ago

Dryland Taro irrigated with system water

Feeding Fish

1/11/08, four days later.

Edible flowers

Whole fava plant, 1/7/08 (the raft is 2" thick), 17 days later.

Same plants, 24 hours later!

Lettuce varieties

Rose and a tomato plant that gave 200 lbs of tomatoes in three months time.

Frilly Lettuce At Harvest

Three weeks from seed, 1/14/08.

We have two varieties of tilapia;

One of our white tilapia

One of our blue tilapia.

Three weeks from seed, 1/14/08.