The Aquaponis farm school

A proactive and responsible approach:

• provide healthy food by combining aquaponic market gardening and fruit production, all within a short circuit.

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A low-tech approach:

• We advocate a low-tech approach for our production, favouring natural, recycled materials wherever possible. And, if we use technological tools, it’s with the aim of improving the quality of our products, but with one principle: technology must serve humans.

 

Create good and local products:

• Set up in peri-urban areas to strengthen the food autonomy of districts by creating production units close to places of consumption, quite simply because offering healthy and local food is crucial for health and well-being.

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Minimise our impact at each stage of production:

• In our choice of fish, trout and perch, which are fed using earthworms and bio-waste.

• By saving water, since 90% of our needs come from recuperated rain water that falls on our greenhouses.

• By favouring short journeys to limit transport related impacts.

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The choice of plant species:

• We carry out our own sowing, taking cuttings and layering using seeds mainly sourced in France.

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Ensure animal welfare:

• By working with low densities per square meter in order to avoid stress and injuries as much as possible.

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Biological control:

• We use neither pesticides nor synthetic fertilisers on our plants.

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Natural plant nutrition:

• Nutrients are provided by fish droppings transformed by natural bacteria, with additional vermitea (a true natural fertiliser coming from the digestion of organic matter by earthworms) containing numerous trace elements and minerals and well balanced in NPK (nitrogen, phosphate, potassium).

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Treatment of our aquaculture sludge:

• Our earthworms actively participate in recycling our organic waste like a mini water treatment plant. All of our waste is valuable thanks to vermicomposting.

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