CHELSEA: Local family to share the secrets of aquaponic gardening during March 24 tours

CHELSEA: Local family to share the secrets of aquaponic gardening during March 24 tours - Chelsea Standard - Heritage Newspapers

A Chelsea family is taking advantage of an emerging gardening trend, called aquaponics, to promote family food security and sustainable gardening with area residents.

Sasha and Bryan Grove have been growing vegetables in their pole barn this winter in gardens fertilized by yellow perch and rainbow trout. Aquaponics, a sustainable gardening method in which fish and plants are grown together in a constructed recirculating ecosystem, is the rising star of sustainable living.