Welcome to NorCal Aquaponics!
Aquaponics is one of the most productive and sustainable food production systems in the world! It is a combination of Aquaculture (farming fish) and Hydroponics (growing plants with out soil) in which both fish and plants benefit from one another! The results, production and sustainability of Aquaculture and Hydroponics combined far exceed that of either system alone.
NorCal Aquaponics is one of the first in the world to offer systems, trainings, knowledge and experience in a Permaculture based Aquaponics design methodology, we call Closed-Loop Aquaponics.
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Closed-Loop Aquaponics Training
With Applied Permaculture Design
The Green Career of the Future!
California - Santa Cruz Grange
May 25 - 28, 2012
Tuition & Registration
Includes Aquaponics Certification, Course Materials (including 100 page course manual with detailed designs), Hands-on Experience, and light breakfast and lunch. Lodging is not provided, but there are low cost local hotels, camping options, and other possibilities available.
Standard Tuition: $525
Supplemented Tuition (Early Bird!): $495 (available to the first 10 participants who register and pay in full)
Couple's or Group Discount: $450 each! (For couples, families, businesses, or organizations - 2 or more people registered together.)
PDC or Aquaponics Course Grads, Grange Members, & College Students: $395!!! (To support the permaculture movement and our commitment to further empower local sustainability efforts with our partners in Santa Cruz, we are offering a special discount to Permaculture Design Course Graduates, Aquaponics Course Graduates, Aquaponics CSA Members, and college students - only $395 for the first 10 people, and $425 there after!)
Aquaponics is one of the most sustainable and productive farming systems in the world. It combines Aquaculture and Hydroponics to create a truly self-sufficient closed loop system that uses only a fraction of the water, labor, energy, etc. that other methods use. Combining Permaculture Design with Aquaponics creates an even more sustainable, dynamic, productive & regenerative system. In this intensive training you will learn some of the most cutting edge pioneering aquaponics systems and gain a solid foundation from which to create your own Aquaponics System, Farm & thriving Green Business appropriate to your climate, ecology, dreams, & desires.
For more information, visit our Trainings page.
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Some facts about our Aquaponic systems:
- Aquaponics uses up to 98% less water than conventional farming methods!
- Aquaponics produces up to ten times more vegetables and crops in the same amount of space and time!
- Aquaponics uses up to 75% less energy than almost any other farming method!
- Aquaponics is guaranteed to be free from chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and other chemicals!
- Aquaponics require only about 1/2 the labor required by almost all other food production methods!
- Aquaponics virtually eliminates weeds, pests, diseases, viruses and pathogens for both aquatic and plant life alike!
- Aquaponics can be used in almost any situation and can range in size, from desk top systems to large scale commercial farms!
- Aquaponics saves time, money and labor in all stages of production!
- No soil is required in Aquaponics enabling otherwise "undesirable" sites or land to be used to produces fresh, organic fish, vegetables, fruit and more!
By fusing Permaculture and Aquaponics in our systems truly sustainable closed loop relationships are created that provide for all the needs of the system with in the system itself!
Our Aquaponics systems are teaming with life! The water is similar to healthy soil; one table spoon of water from our systems contains billions of microorganisms. You will find fish, prawns, plants, snails, worms, algae, insects, zooplankton, fungi, bacteria and many other forms of life in our systems! They are incredibly diverse living ecosystems!
In addition to our own experience, we here at NorCal Aquaponics have learned and gained inspiration from the work of many other researchers and working professionals around the world! Building on the work and success of fellow Aquaponics enthusiasts, we have been continually developing systems that require less outside inputs and are as diverse and sustainable as possible. One of our main goals is to continually improve on our successes and create systems that are more and more diverse, productive and self sufficient. Our system designs can be applied almost anywhere and in almost any situation!
In our current global economic system Permaculture and Sustainability also needs to be financially self sufficient! Aquaponics gives people and communities a chance to earn a living working with natural systems, while providing delicious and nutritious food to people - and the best part is it's easy to do! We have helped to set up Aquaponics CSAs (Community Supported Agriculture) and student run high school businesses. Let us help you create your own sustainable income!
First and foremost, we here at NorCal Aquaponics are stewards of the earth! We come from Permaculture backgrounds and are completely dedicated to spreading earth based regenerative knowledge as far and wide as possible! Aquaponics is very exciting to us, but we also value the incredible importance of farming in the soil, caring for the earth, its people and cultural values. The act of having one's hands in the soil is incredibly important and indeed sacred. We feel that Aquaponics gives us a chance to decrease the demand and stress being put on our already overly polluted and diminishing top soils worldwide.
Wouldn't it be amazing if we could heal our lands and produce clean, healthy food and communities in the process!
We hope Aquaponics will help us to heal our planet and each other!
Please explore this website and learn how we can help you create your own Aquaponics farm or project! We offer trainings, consultations and unique "one of a kind" system design and construction services!
Thank you for your interest in us and this unique approach to producing abundance in our lives and communities!