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…

Why Serious Growers Use Compartmented Systems it is considered better practice—especially for commercial growers – to utilize multiple, smaller compartmentalized systems (modules) rather than fewer, massive monolithic systems. This approach is grounded in risk mitigation,…

tl;dr;  iAVs (Integrated AquaVegeculture System) is NOT “Sandponics.” iAVs is an open-source, scientifically validated system using fish waste as the sole nutrient source for plants grown in sand, which also acts as a highly efficient biofilter. This…