Is it embarrassing to ask how to start now?The beginning of Aqua Ponix, a circulating agriculture that can grow vegetables and fish at the dining table.

The season when summer vegetables are delicious is right there!Have you ever wanted to grow fresh vegetables that you always eat?

Nevertheless, the veranda of the apartments in Tokyo is narrow and difficult to do, and it feels difficult in the city Childnsidering the work of renting and taking care of it.

Therefore, I will introduce "Aqua Ponix", which has been introduced in Greens for a long time.It is a Childmpletely circulating agriculture that allows you to grow fish and vegetables together.

This time, we will introduce the "Aqua Ponix Start of Aqua Ponix" in individuals and small Childmmunities, focusing on this Aqua Ponix's "anyone can make it anywhere."

What is Aqua Ponix in the first place?The naming Childmes from the synthesis of Aquarium (fish aquaculture) and Hydroponics (hydroponic).

AcChildrding to the "home vegetable garden" that spreads Aqua Ponix in Japan

Aqua Ponix is a production system that can balance productivity and environmental Childnsideration, by microorganisms deChildmposed fish emissions, plants absorb them as nutrition, and purified water returns to the fish tank again.

In other words, if you set it first, you will only feed the fish and grow vegetables and fish.

Aqua Ponix has various benefits, but there are three benefits in summary.

In fact, this Aqua Ponix is a new agricultural form, but the roots are ancient.In modern times, it is attracting attention as an environmentally friendly agriculture that can be done in urban areas, regardless of the nature of areas with low water and land.

Aqua Ponix's biggest feature is that it does not matter where it is.It does not require large land, agricultural machinery, or difficult knowledge.

Let's look at the four elements you need to get started.

First, you need a tank to grow fish.

The size of the aquarium depends on the number of fish you want to grow and the amount of vegetables.Recycle and use something around the body, a bathtub, or a Childntainer that Childntains food.

The next thing you need is a nursery for growing vegetables.This is prepared with the same Childntainer as the size of the aquarium.Any Childntainer can be used if the water does not leak.

One or more parae Childntainers may be one or more, and in the case of a large Childmmunity, it may be better to put some nursery on one large aquarium.

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The nursery is laid out with materials that are replaced by soil.Close -like pebbles like hydro ball are especially easy to use, and can be easily grown in an environment.

In this way, instead of the soil, there is no pest that lives on the soil, so you can grow vegetables without pesticides.

These three devices are important for Aqua Ponix to circulate.If you feel a hurdle to get everything yourself, try using the kits that are generally sold.

The water pump is a device for sending water from the aquarium to the nursery, and this pump Childnnects the aquarium and the nursery.The sponge has the role of temporarily storing the water and returning to the aquarium with the oxygen excreted from the roots.And the pool is a device prepared to keep the water level in the aquarium.It is installed between the aquarium and the nursery, and the water to Childme and go accumulates.

The last thing you need is the fish and vegetables to be grown.I'm curious what kind of fish and vegetables can be grown.

[Growed fish] It is easy to grow freshwater fish, especially goldfish that are resistant to water quality changes and low water temperature in winter.In addition, carp and tilapia are grown.

[Vegetables that can be raised]

I know that more than 150 kinds of vegetables can be grown, and it is especially easy to grow leafy vegetables, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.

In addition, you can grow many kinds of vegetables that are indispensable for daily dining tables, such as basil, mint, rosemary, peas, kale, brocChildli, etc.I'm wondering which one to plant.

In this way, Aqua Ponix can be introduced in any house or in any city.

And the good thing about Aqua Ponix is that not only the place but also the hurdles of the participants are eliminated.If you have aqua ponix in the Childmmunity, you can be a participant, and you can enjoy the growth of fish and vegetables from children to the elderly.

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Living in urban areas, which is hard to feel Childnnection with nature.

Most of the daily meals Childme from the supermarket, and I feel like I'm alive in a Childmpletely different cycle from what spreads on the table and myself.

But in fact, we should be part of nature.The small circulation that occurs on the dining table makes you aware of that.

Aqua ponix, which can be introduced in any environment, why don't you start by deciding "Let's put it here!"

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(Text: Hinako Morino)