I am mostly approaching to AP as an integrated part of my food growing system. In my integrated system, I have 55 sqm soil veg garden, 40 trees for fruits (in dirt) and the AP with 2.4 sqm GB. I also have a worm garden, homemade BSF pod and a meal worm system. I am planning to grow AP in the future too.
All these are connected. Worms consume kitchen scrap and excess azolla, duck weed. They are also food for fishes. I have worms in the GBs as well.
In the future solids from the AP will go to fruit trees.
Any uneaten, uncooked parts of the fish will go into my fish digester to become liquid fish fertilizer which used in the garden.
My bees are sucking water from the GBs, I guess they are enjoying the pristine quality water there. They also do most of the pollination.
Boiled silverbeet and spinach that I grow on soil are also fed to the Silver Perches.
BSF doesn't work yet but meal worms fed to another little 300L pond with comets in it which grows lettuces and basils. I also put cuttings of goji berries or black currants here to root them.
With the combination of things above, I don't buy much veggies and fruit. But I wouldn't rely on just AP to supply the vegetables. As we know, it is a closed system and when it fails, everything dies in it.
Also the quality of the food I/we produce is way better than supermarket. I think its a superior product nutritionally and ethically as well.
Yes we spend sh*t load on tanks, connections, fingerlings, fish food etc. but there is also mental and health benefits in it that are invisible which makes it worthwhile.
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