Indoor Fish Farming

Sustainable indoor urban fish & vegetable farms are cropping up in Sacramento

With all the new hydroponics stores opening in Sacramento, the green health trend that's emerging in Sacramento emphasizes indoor farms in urban areas, sometimes in basements. Check out the Sustainable Urban Gardens website. Also watch this video — Capture carbon in soil with organic farming . The popular trend goes beyond hydroponics or aquaculture. It's about aquaponics--growing indoors fish and vegetables together so that fish and plants coexist under the same roof.

An April 18, 2011 article by Chicago Tribune writer, Melissa Harris, reprinted today in the Sacramento Bee, " Sustainable urban farms are cropping up indoors: fish, plants coexist at aquaponic sites ," explains how people are turning former factories and even meatpacking plants itno urban indoor farms in various cities. Let's say you want to start on a tiny scale in Sacramento and you can't afford to buy or lease large abandoned industrial buildings or lease stockyard space. Instead, on a smaller scale, you grow vegetables and fish indoors, creating sustainable urban farms.

Then you collect neighboring business's waste and turn it into gas to run generators so you don't have to pay for electricity. That runs your indoor farm where you recycle the waste from the fish you breed and the vegetables you grow. You can even run a business collecting waste from businesses and selling the waste to other indoor aquaponics farms that use the waste to run their own generators.

It's similar to collecting and recycling restaurant grease. But the point is that sustainable urban farms that grow fish and vegetables together indoors instead of outdoors is what's important. The fish and plants coexist at aquaponic businesses.

In Sacramento, aquaponic farming is catching on as one way to improve sustainability and green health. Aquaponic farming minimizes water use. In other cities, such as urban Chicago, aquaponic farming allows year-round harvests, and micro-organisms eat tilapia waste, converting it into fertilizer for lettuce, according to the Sacramento Bee article.

Hydroponic supplies stores in Sacramento include Hydroponics Sacramento - Sacramento Hydroponics Experts , Greenfire Organics & Hydroponics Store , and Constantly Growing , located at 1918 16th Street, Sacramento. For more listings of hydroponics stores in Sacramento, check out the Internet's Sacramento listings for hydroponics.