Foreword
Foreword In 2021, food availability is at two extremes. Millions of people are starving…often to death…but the ‘good’ news is that the rest of us have so much cheap food that we waste about a third of it…having ravaged…
Gary Donaldson
We’re Ready to Help Namibia, but…?
A few weeks ago, a man reached out to us expressing interest in iAVs. There’s nothing unusual about that – it happens on a daily basis. However, what made this approach different was that this man was from Namibia. Namibia…
What and Why – Namibia
This is the second of three articles that we presented to Agriforum – a farming magazine in Namibia. They were published in December 2022. The Why and the What of iAVs By the 1980’s, it had become obvious that world…
iAVs Returns to Namibia
This is the first of 3 articles that we submitted to Agriforum – a farming magazine in Namibia. – in November 2022. Horticulture’s Most Sustainable Disruptive Technology Returns to Namibia In early 1990, as the new Republic of Namibia emerged…
Week 3 – Course Notes
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Week 2 – Course Notes
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Week 1 Course Notes
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New iAVs – Day 5 – Join Up!
NEW IAVs – Day 5 – Join Up! It’s about Day 5 in the current sprint to a functional website and I’m delighted to announce that you are now able to join us as a Bronze member….at no cost! Currently, there…
New iAVs – Day 3 – Unpacking the Boxes
As things stand, you can go to the home page of the iAVs website and you can work your way down to a button that leads you to “Horticulture’s Best Kept Secret. I briefed our new webmaster today. He’s committed…
NEW iAVs – Day 2 – The Sprint
About a week ago, we broke out of our mental prison…and bolted for the woods. In the ensuing days, some of you who shared an interest in our work, followed us on the promise of something better. Yesterday, we put…
New IAVs – Day One – Reset!
Welcome to New iAVs. The current appearance of the website belies the tumultuous change of the past week but to summarise… A week ago, we decided that we needed a radical shift in the way that iAVs was being offered…
Is Fate Fickle or just an Outright Bitch?
Have you ever wondered why some people experience a successful and satisfying life while others just seem destined for poverty and misery? You may consider that it’s a good education, hard work, and rich parents. And there’s no doubt, they…
Hope for the Best but Act for the Worst – copied
To say that one’s own time is finite is a blinding flash of the obvious. Much less obvious for most of us, however, is the question of time as it relates to the planet…or, more specifically, the amount of time…
Are You Part of the Solution?
The United Nations has stated that, if we are to meet the food needs of the projected population, food production will have to double by 2050. A formidable task of itself, this goal is further complicated by some serious environment…
Why iAVs lapsed into Obscurity.
Steve Diver’s ATTRA aquaponics document was one of the very few general information sources pertaining to aquaponics – leading up to its renaissance in the mid-2000’s. My recent re-reading of this document revealed some interesting insights including: My initial impression of…
If iAVs is so great, why isn’t it more widely known?
It’s a good question – but it’s one for which there is no simple answer. Some of the factors that have impacted the visibility of iAVs include: Other commercial models (notably the UVI model) gained traction through 30 years of…
Aquaponics’ Biggest Mistake
Most people who are interested in aquaponics know that Missouri farmers Tom and Paula Speraneo popularized what is commonly termed flood and drain aquaponics. For the uninitiated, flood and drain aquaponics in its simplest guise comprises a fish tank and…