The Journey Begins- Aquaponics at R.E. Mountain Secondary School

Recently, R.E. Mountain's library had an aquaponics system installed. Aquaponics is an innovative and interesting way to grow plants and vegetables. As it is a self-contained ecosystem, where the fish excrement used to fertilize plants, which in turn clean the water for the aquatic animals, an aquaponics system is very easy to maintain. Additionally, aquaponics uses 30 times less water per pound of produce created then traditional farming, and can also be used to farm edible fish.

The system installed at mountain was put in on November the 25th, 2015. Feel free to come down and check it out! Our goal is to facilitate the education about aquaponics, and build more systems all throughout our community. Furthermore, we are attempting to demonstrate that aquaponics is effective, and this will be achieved through donating the produce we harvest to charity outlets.