Category iAVs

Just learned what it is going to cost me to keep this website ‘active’… but … it is NOT “active”. As far as I am aware there may be – perhaps – one visitor a week – if that. So…

Mark here. Just learned that Gary has ‘passed on’ on Saturday July 1 following a heart attack a couple weeks back. His surviving spouse reports it was relatively peaceful. Just learned this a few minutes ago so haven’t had time…

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…

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…

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…

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…

EXAMPLE OF MALICIOUS INCOMPETENCE within the so-called International AID and development assistance entities. Described by way of a letter I sent to the Director-General of UN/FAO in 2018 … ++++++++++++ The Honorable Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General Food and Agriculture…

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…

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…

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…

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…

One of our motivations in developing this site, is to have Aquaponics become a scientific discipline – subject to valid inquiry and elucidation – via the scientific method. The goal of Science is to know as many true things – and as…