Originally Posted by crockett

Cool & good luck. I was researching this stuff because my dad & uncle have two adjoining 20 acre plots of land each with a house (so 20 acres each). Due to property taxes costing so much they are trying to get the land zoned agriculture. They've been planting pineapples for the last several years but IMO it's a waste of time/space how they are doing it because there is no solid rotation on when they get fruit.

I was checking out this stuff to see if it's something they could set up and actually make money with rather than waste time with the pineapples. Both my dad & uncle have a lot of experience with fish farms so I figured aquaponics might be interesting to them.

The biggest drawback I saw to a large system like that for commercial growing is it's a lot of baby sitting compared to just growing in the dirt. It's also a lot more expensive to set up and run vs growing in dirt. On the flip side you can grow faster and get a higher yield and maybe grow year round if you can control the temps.