Phoenix Voyage is addressing global hunger with easy to maintain food systems. 

Introducing state-of-the-art aquaponics and aquaculture systems which bring an abundance of organic food to an entire community!

1. Feed a community of over 300 people year round with organic food supply!
2. Support an educational program, teaching about vitamins & minerals in foods!
3. You can choose the country/location and we will facilitate the initiative.

Feeding a community year round

Phoenix Voyage has partnered with an amazing company Global Aquatics, LLC.  They have over 40 years of food growth research and  have developed  an easy to maintain systems which will feed a whole community year round. 

Educational Experience

In addition to the greenhouse/aquaponics system, Phoenix Voyage has developed an educational component  Every vegetable, herb or fruit tree is identified with a description card containing details about the vitamin and mineral content, medicinal applications and inspiring ways to prepare in meals. The greenhouse is designed to be an experiential education tool for the entire community. 

Total cost varies on many factors/location/cooperation
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*** average cost is $45,000             per installation

Aquaponics

Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks), with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In aquaculture, effluents accumulate in the water, increasing toxicity for the fish. 

This water is led to a hydroponic system where the by-products from the aquaculture are broken down by nitrogen-fixing bacteria then filtered out by the plants as nutrients, after which the cleaned water is recirculated back to the Fish.Aquaponic systems do not typically discharge or exchange water under normal operation, but instead recirculate and reuse water very effectively. The system relies on the relationship between the animals and the plants to maintain a stable aquatic environment that experience a minimum of fluctuation in ambient nutrient and oxygen levels. As a result, aquaponics uses approximately 2% of the water that a conventionally irrigated farm requires for the same vegetable production.

Benefits:

• Reduced water use
• Reduced chemical use
• Reduces pesticide use when set up in a greenhouse
• Reduces erosion by eliminating the need to plough the soil
• Reduced running costs compared to a conventional horticultural farm
• Stops backbreaking work of digging the soil and weeding for the home gardener
• Can produce fish and plants for the family / grower all year round, using a greenhouse
• Compared to conventional Hydroponic growers, Aquaponics does not need to use chemical nutrients for the plants, as the fish waste provides these nutrients to the plants. This eliminates the pollution of waterways, which is usually used to dispose of the eliminated chemical water.
• Compared to conventional Aquaculture growers, an Aquaponics system does not have a build-up of wastes in the system that causes the water to become toxic due to the nitrites. Aquaponics utilises this waste, with the bacteria in the grow beds converting the nitrites into nitrates, which the plants then consume as their main nutrient source.