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The Simple Vinegar Test: Ensuring Your Sand is Right for iAVs

The Simple Vinegar Test: Ensuring Your Sand is Right for iAVs

Building a successful Integrated Aqua-Vegeculture System (iAVs) starts with selecting the right materials, and the sand you choose for your biofilter is absolutely critical. As the iAVs Handbook emphasizes, the sand isn’t just a growing…

Growing Hope in Ghana: How a Simple System Can Revolutionize Our Food Future – And How You Can Help

Growing Hope in Ghana: How a Simple System Can Revolutionize Our Food Future – And How You Can Help

Imagine a Ghana where every community thrives with fresh, healthy food, grown sustainably, right in their own backyard. Sounds like a dream? It doesn’t have to be. But first, we need to face a stark…

Cooperative Sustainability is the Ethos of iAVs

Cooperative Sustainability is the Ethos of iAVs

In our world where the well-being of conscious beings and the planet are imperiled, it is imperative that we unite in a spirit of cooperation and mutual support. Divisive behaviors, such as forming cliques, engaging…

Welcome Rita Pryce to the iAVs Team!

Welcome Rita Pryce to the iAVs Team!

We are thrilled to announce that Rita Pryce has joined the iAVs team! Rita will be taking on the task of community engagement and support, ensuring that everyone who reaches out to us receives the…

The Future Here: Self-Regulating pH

The Future Here: Self-Regulating pH

In traditional aquaponic systems, maintaining the correct pH balance is a constant struggle. Nitrification and other biological processes cause pH to decline, requiring frequent testing and costly, labor-intensive adjustments with chemicals. This instability can harm…

iAVs Research: Overview

iAVs Research: Overview

iAVs research focused on developing a simple, adaptable food production system for diverse environments, especially arid and desertifying regions. Guided by the KISS principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid), the system was designed for easy adoption…