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Tabletop Aquaponic Organic Garden

Here's an affordable way for you and your family or students to learn the science of aquaponics right in your own home or classroom! With our Tabletop Aquaponic Organic Garden all the principles of aquaponics are present to learn about and experiment with!

In addition to this fun hobby and learning experience, you will enjoy fresh organic vegetables and herbs right from your own indoor garden. You'll have fresh lettuce, basil, tomatoes, peppers, or flowers. Watch them thrive as they feed on the nutrients provided by the fish.

Meanwhile, the plants are purifying the water for the fish, so they enjoy the sweet, clear water the way nature intended. You see, this is really nature's food cycle condensed onto a tabletop. And no inorganic chemicals to buy -- just fish food!

The system is highly automated, with timers for the grow lights, the irrigation pump, and an automatic fish feeder. And we tell you how you can start your system with young plants instead of seedlings, so you can get the water-treatment cycle started sooner. The goldfish appreciate that!

The Tabletop Aquaponic Garden Kit comes with a complete manual with assembly, set-up, and operations directions, plus a fascinating study guide for your family or classroom with loads of Internet information references. The kit includes the aquarium and all its accessories plus the grow tray, seeds, seed sprouting cubes, grow lights, and an easy-to-assemble grow light stand if you can't or don't want to attach the lights to the ceiling. All you need to supply is the gravel in the grow tray and the fish (that's a total of about $10). And we tell you what to buy and where.

Learn about sustainable, local, and organic food production in a system that recycles its own water. See first-hand the principles of botany, biology, ecology, physics, and conservation. Learn and understand how large farms built on the same principles can feed the hungry while conserving precious resources.

The kit is $795, only double the cost of the popular little shoe-box size hydroponic (non-organic) kits on the market. And you have no supplies you need to continue to buy from us; just goldfish food from your local pet store. By the way, the fish food is organic; made from fish meal and vegetable matter.

Shipping (including packing, which is the expensive part) ranges from zero in San Diego up to approximately $185 to New York, $170 to Chicago, and $140 to Los Angeles.

If you want to round up and purchase the parts yourself, or if you already own a suitable aquarium, you can purchase our Tabletop Aquaponic Garden Assembly and Operations Manual and our Study Guide for $189. The manual has a complete parts list you can use, plus detailed instructions on how to set up the siphoning irrigation pump, how to prepare plants for planting, how to build the light stand, and everything else you need to get your garden up and running in just a few days.

The Study Guide will teach your family or class about the miracle of aquaponics, the chemistry of the water, the nitrogen cycle of life, the spectral content of grow lights, and how the fish and plants help each other thrive in this miniature ecological world.