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Doing Your Test Grows, or “How Do I Know What To Grow?”

You can’t make money with aquaponics if you grow the wrong things. Not everything will earn you the same return, and guessing is deadly. Especially guessing [Read more…]

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Marketing Your Product: Research First!!

How To Drive Success: Don’t just “grow something” and hope you can sell it; make sure you do test grows, market research, financial projections, and develop a marketing strategy first to see if it’s a good choice or not. [Read more…]

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How To Get Started:

We do this “what-if” exercise with the class participants in our 5-day live Commercial Aquaponic and Solar Greenhouse Trainings: “Imagine that when you go home, you’ll have 50,000 square feet of greenhouse aquaponic systems, all ready to go. [Read more…]

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How To Start Small And Generate Cash Flow!

How To Drive Success: Don’t start big with lots of expenses and hardly any cash flow; rather, start small and generate cash flow right away

It’s funny how many people claim to be “commercial aquaponics experts”, but have never done it for a living [Read more…]

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This Can Be Your Aquaponic Failure:

First, if you’re interested in starting a commercial aquaponics operation, the most important thing you should know is this: one person can easily run 2,500 to 3,000 square feet of aquaponics system, [Read more…]