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After briefly mentioning Barrelponics in Tuesday’s roundup, I wanted to take another opportunity to share my love for this humble, DIY aquaponics system. With a footprint of about 20 square feet, this is definitely the kind of thing that you can have on a back porch or patio, making it fair game for lots of rental and dense urban situations.

Here’s one of the better youtube videos of a system:

Does anyone get as excited as I do about these systems?!

The only one that I’ve gotten to poke and prod at in real life belongs to my friend Walker. He’s a pretty sharp guy, and has contributed a couple of his own novel ideas to the system:
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Randomly selected, assorted snacks for your brain:

Liquid Gold

“We all think of human pee as gross and something that ought to be vigorously “cleaned up” or sanitized. However, human urine is actually sterile (unlike faeces, urine is bacteria-free). This liquid by-product of our daily lives can be a rich food source if it gets into the RIGHT part of the right ecosystem.”

(quoted from submersible design)

Recycling urine as fertilizer is one of the easiest ways to participate responsibly in several major nutrient cycles.

For more info, and a lot of renter-appropriate strategies check out the book Liquid Gold: The Lure and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants. Author’s website here, Amazon.com listing here.
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