Is aquaponics difficult to learn or hard to do?
It would be, if you had to reinvent it yourself. Because there is a large body of usable knowledge available, and many successful practitioners willing to share their knowledge, learning aquaponics is easy. It’s kind of like math; when you first started working with those numbers (remember, you were only three feet tall?), it was hard adding 3 and 6. Now you do it without thinking about it. In practice, it’s just feeding the fish, planting and harvesting the vegetables. We don’t spend much time thinking about the nitrifying cycle or ammonia levels. Even if we did, those things are simple to measure and understand. The hardest thing we’ve found about aquaponics is that so many people are interested in it. We had to start giving regular farm tours every Saturday because we had fifteen to twenty people showing up at odd times during the week to see our farm, and so far over 1,000 people have come to see the farm since we started giving tours in June, 2008! Remember, we are not farmers, or
