Post List #1
If you’ve ever kept an aquaponic system going, you’ve met the pH problem. You fill the system, the water is fine. Two weeks later, the pH has drifted down. You add a handful of crushed…
The mainstream aquaponics literature treats iron, calcium, potassium, and trace‑element supplementation, together with regular carbonate dosing for pH control, as a standard part of system operation. iAVs (Integrated Aqua‑Vegeculture System) has, across the decade of…
In November 2025, a team at the United Arab Emirates University published Current technologies for nutrient recovery in aquaponic systems: a review in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. The paper presents nutrient recovery as a…
As global supply chains become increasingly fragile and the cost of basic agricultural inputs skyrockets, the need for true, localized food sovereignty has never been more critical. The Integrated Aqua-Vegeculture System (iAVs) was designed to…
M. R. McMurtry, D. C. Sanders, J. D. Cure & R. G. Hodson This paper documents a year-long greenhouse experiment designed to answer a simple question: can iAVs remove nutrients from water and maintain stable…
This PDF is a straight aggregation of source material pulled verbatim from the first eleven pages of a Google search for “aquaponics history + McMurtry,” with no filtering, curation, or editorial selection. It contains excerpts…
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