Aquaponics - an ecosystem in a barrel

There are a stack of 200 liter blue barrels on the planet that were once used to transport things like softdrink syrup. We needy people all over the globe never seem to have enough soft drink syrup and throw a lot of these onto dumps, into recycling depots, and more often than you might think, just directly into the ocean.

Aquaponics turns blue barrel flotsam into fish and vegetables.

Is there anything aquaponics cant do? :)


Travis Hughey was way clever when he first used blue barrels to grow food (he probably still is clever)
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=barrelponics&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

The plan is to create a small test system with a blue barrel, then apply my new knowledge to a larger system that will be capable of feeding us. I've already started.