POWAY, Calif. (CBS 8) -- Growing vegetables in a home garden can be a rewarding and healthy hobby. It also takes a lot of water. But there might be a better way. Aquaponics is a type of garden that is ...

If you’re fishing for a fun and eco-friendly gardening project while at home, try building a small-scale aquaponics system in your backyard. Aquaponics is a form of agriculture that combines ...

In our quest for a better aquaponics, we each face our challenges. Here in Wisconsin, we average five feet of snow in wintertime along with temperatures below -20°F, and often go two solid months ...

If you like the idea of aquaponics but aren’t sure how to get started, you’re in luck: AquaSprouts just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their brilliant home system, which allows anyone to grow ...

I once built my own backyard aquaculture system, a semi-disaster which I detailed in a previous post. I wasn’t even attempting the hydroponics part, but just building a self-sustaining system to raise ...

Seven benefits of having an aquaponics garden at home The European Parliament research service recently listed aquaponics – the symbiotic cultivation of fish and plants – as one of the ten ...

As Jamaica experiences increasingly severe impacts of climate change and food insecurity, more farmers are turning toward environmentally and financially sustainable farming practices. More ...

Eric Maundu never wanted to be a farmer. Raised in an agricultural community in Kenya, he learned early on to equate that way of life with unrewarding, sunbaked drudgery. Given the opportunity to go ...

Unless you are Alice Waters or Barbara Kingsolver, planting and maintaining an edible garden can seem a tad arduous. In her book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," Kingsolver extolled the pleasures of home ...