By Imbert Matthee
The Times 

Of Fish, Food And More Food!

 

April 11, 2013

Tawnya and Mickey Richards and daughter Katelynn Martin show off their aquaponics system.

WAITSBURG - Imagine a raised vegetable bed the size of a dinner table.

Now picture growing enough greens in this 5' x 5' space to feed a family of four year round. Impossible? Not according to Waitsburg's Mickey and Tawnya Rich- ards. With their partners Ray and Debi Fosnot they have worked since December building their new business, "Lettuce Eat Fish".

As long as you have the right ingredients - fish, fish feed, rocks, water, light and heat - you should be able to meet your leafy needs around the clock, thanks to a new approach to farming called "aquaponics."

"Everybody should be doing this,"...



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