John Bowskill’s vegetable garden is something different and the name of his business is a bit of a giveaway: it’s called Margaret River Aquafarm.
Basically, it’s powered by water. Water and fish, to be exact.
At the centre of his 126-acre property in Forest Grove, Western Australia, surrounded by Margaret River’s famous vineyards, is a 400m2 greenhouse that contains an aquaponics garden.
Aquaponics is a sustainable, closed circular system in which the input is fish food and the output is vegetables plus fish. The fish waste fertilises the plants and the plants filter the water.
As the farm’s website sums it
