Farm Fountain How To!

It's a farm! It's a fountain! It's a fishpond! It's a trellis!

It's all that and more. It's aquaponics!

Here's how it works in a nutshell. The main ingredient is water, which is circulated from the fish pond at the bottom to the plants on the top. The plants eat the sun and the fish poop, in doing so, they clean the water as it drips back down to the fish pond. Fish get nice clean water, plants get ermmmm, delicious fish poop. Humans get plants and fish to eat, plus a cool living sculpture/stress relieving device. And what could be more stress relieving than knowing where your next meal is coming from?

Another huge plus is that the water is constantly recirculated, with very little lost. It's just the same water over and over again. Conservationtastic!

And the nice folks who thought it up have ever so thoughtfully posted a how-to so you can construct your very own.

Check it:



(click either pic to go the farm fountain site)

"Farm Fountain is a collaborative project by artists Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs."

Aquaponics is great because as a system, it's scalable, so it can be as big or as small as you like, and once it's up and running, you need only power the pumps (which don't use a ton of energy) and feed the fish.

A lot of folks are getting into it.

Australia!


Canada!


Mexico!


Even Texas!


We'd love to have one in the office. I think the super would be upset if we put a system in the apartment.

But the thinking is... why not simply build this system into every building? It solves a lot of problems.

And solving problems while creating opportunities is what it's all about!

Special thanks to Ken Rinaldo and Amy Youngs for their creativity and generosity.

Love to all,

Team SuperForest