Start your Phoenix Center with a food growth system!
If you would like to build your Center one component at a time, the Food Growth system is the best to start with. Your community members can all pitch in on the building and set up process.
Feeding a Community Year Round

Each Center will take part in the community greenhouse/aquaponics system, including building the structure with the blueprints supplied by Phoenix Voyage International and designed by Global Aquatics LLC. Included in each Phoenix Center "core package" will be the materials for the structure, seeds and four types of fish.
Global Aquatics LLC, with over 40 years of research, has developed easy to maintain systems which will feed a whole community year round.
Global Aquatics LLC, with over 40 years of research, has developed easy to maintain systems which will feed a whole community year round.
Experiential Education

Every vegetable, herb or fruit tree will have a description card with details about the vitamin and mineral content, medicinal applications and inspiring ways to prepare in meals. The greenhouse is designed to be an experiential education tool for the entire community.
We will also be introducing our partner companies with fertilizers and technologies which have received yields of over 200% growth! The Phoenix Center greenhouses will be a community food source PLUS an example of cutting-edge food production to share with the global community!
We will also be introducing our partner companies with fertilizers and technologies which have received yields of over 200% growth! The Phoenix Center greenhouses will be a community food source PLUS an example of cutting-edge food production to share with the global community!
SPOTLIGHT VIDEO -
This is the most important video you will ever watch for supporting a healthy body. This information is brought to you by Dr. Natasha Campbell Mcbride.
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Aquaponics

Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system that combines conventional aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks), with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In aquaculture, effluents accumulate in the water, increasing toxicity for the fish. This water is led to a hydroponic system where the by-products from the aquaculture are broken down by nitrogen-fixing bacteria then filtered out by the plants as nutrients, after which the cleaned water is recirculated back to the Fish.Aquaponic systems do not typically discharge or exchange water under normal operation, but instead recirculate and reuse water very effectively. The system relies on the relationship between the animals and the plants to maintain a stable aquatic environment that experience a minimum of fluctuation in ambient nutrient and oxygen levels. As a result, aquaponics uses approximately 2% of the water that a conventionally irrigated farm requires for the same vegetable production.
The benefits of this system are:

- Reduced water use
- Reduced chemical use
- Reduces pesticide use when set up in a greenhouse
- Reduces erosion by eliminating the need to plough the soil
- Reduced running costs compared to a conventional horticultural farm
- Stops backbreaking work of digging the soil and weeding for the home gardener
- Can produce fish and plants for the family / grower all year round, using a greenhouse
- Compared to conventional Hydroponic growers, Aquaponics does not need to use chemical nutrients for the plants, as the fish waste provides these nutrients to the plants. This eliminates the pollution of waterways, which is usually used to dispose of the eliminated chemical water.
- Compared to conventional Aquaculture growers, an Aquaponics system does not have a build-up of wastes in the system that causes the water to become toxic due to the nitrites. Aquaponics utilises this waste, with the bacteria in the grow beds converting the nitrites into nitrates, which the plants then consume as their main nutrient source.
Phoenix Centers International is an action initiative of Phoenix Voyage "Inspiring Solutions for a Better World"