Menu Sections Featured Topics USC Wrigley Institute introduces food cultivation to local students An outreach program couples aquaculture with hydroponics to teach youngsters about science and other key subjects BY April 27, 2016 Students at Leichty Middle School transplant seedlings into their new aquaponics system. (Photo/Linda Chilton) Though the term “aquaponics” was coined in the ’70s, the practice of cultivating food by using the byproducts of one aquatic species as fertilizer for another has been used for almost a millennium. In parts of ancient China, fish were added to rice paddy agricultural systems, and the Aztecs created chinampas by farming in shallow lakebeds. Contemporary aquaponics systems bring together conventional aquaculture — raising aquatic animals such as fish, snail
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