Page 16 - Pocket Farm (Alec Deacon) : Flip It & Read It

survival community told me about a hidden gemstone.

An innova ve and rather weird technique called "aquaponics" that the people of

Gaza were using in an arid warzone. Among falling missiles and mortars, those
people are using this method to feed their families... even if they have no water, no

money, no fer le soils, no space to grow food, and no me to do it either.

I realized that if these people are using it at war me... it would be the perfect source
of food during an extended crisis.

I was intrigued by this aquaponics story... so I asked my friends if they could help me

with more informa on.

The answer came from 8,000 miles away, from arid Australia. It was an aquaponics
success story that blew me away. Ba ling record-se ng temperatures and severe

water restric ons, this guy had created his own li le backyard pocket farm...
spending 20 mes less money than on a tradi onal garden of the same yield. From a

ny 300 sq backyard, every single month, he was ge ng around 80 lbs of juicy

tomatoes...15 lbs of bell peppers...60 lbs of delicious zucchini... 60 lbs of cucumbers...
not to men on onions, beets, radishes, spinach, and even some carrots.

And, on top of that, he was ge ng about 700 lbs of fish every single year!

This amazing setup was exactly what I needed.

It completely eliminated the hassle of spending a small fortune and hours on end of
backbreaking work, thousands of gallons of water for watering the garden, and the

dangers of making myself visible to the "food grid."

This sounded too good to be true. The catch?

The whole system had cost him $6,000... That was way too much for what I had in
mind. But I knew I was onto something... and a crazy idea started growing in the back

of my mind: I wanted to find a way to build this for under $1000... and to help my

local community and as many people as I could to become self-sufficient and
prepared for anything.

Eventually, I found an unbelievably easy way to make your

own aquaponics…