Trading the Pool for an Organic Greenhouse
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 at 3:53PM 
During a severe drought in the 1970s, many homeowners were forced to drain their swimming pools, creating a venue for the Z-Boys, a group of underground skateboarders, to invent aerial skateboarding. This summer, a family in Mesa, AZ drained their swimming pool and is looking to start a similar groundswell in the realm of organic food production.
The Garden Pool family (who aren't identified on the website), bought their home in October 2009 with hopes of producing their own food. "We had planned to be food self-sufficient by 2012 but we made it by mid-2010," they write in the YouTube video description.
The swimming pool area is used for aquaponics tilapia production, and the family grows a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in rain gutters and five-gallon buckets. They also keep laying hens, catfish, and they even have dwarf lemons and mandarin orange trees.
For more on Garden Pool, check out their website.
aquaponics in Farming
Reader Comments (2)
It's interesting to see where the organic ingredients come from that are at the farmers market and in stores. I used organic makeup and I wonder how the manufacturers can get so many organic supplies. I guess the greenhouses are really spreading fast!
That's a very nice idea! Do you have also some pool supplies for that?