Maximum Yield Modern Growing | UK EU Edition | May June 2017

compost and used as a soil conditioner
for trees, vegetables, and
fodder plants; the worms are fed to
fish, chickens, and quail.
• Chickens fertilise the trees and
keep weeds at bay. They also eat
spoiled fruit and the fruit fly larvae
that it contains.
• Other chickens and quail eat
the fodder plants and provide
manure (and eventually feathers
and other processing wastes) for
worms, black soldier fly larvae,
and composting systems.
The important thing about
microponics is that there is no such
thing as waste—everything becomes
part of the nutrient cycle. Waste
heat from chick brooders and lights
(and even the waste body heat from
animals or birds) can be used to
modify environments in favour of
other organisms. The scope of such
integrations is limited only by one’s
imagination.
The integration of fish, plants, and
microlivestock leverages the volume
and quality of the food that we grow
and it makes for a healthier and more
resilient food production environment.
Our goal is to put clean, fresh food on
the dinner table, so we use what works
best—for the fish, plants, microlivestock,
and other organisms, and that’s what
microponics is all about!
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