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• The chicken and quail meat and eggs go to the kitchen and the viscera ( guts ) are fed to the BSF larvae . The feathers are composted .
• The castings from the larvae ( which retain up to 50 per cent of their original protein level ) and kitchen scraps are fed to worms .
• The worm castings are mixed with compost and used as a soil conditioner for trees , vegetables , and fodder plants ; while the worms are fed to fish , chickens and quail .
• Chickens fertilize the trees and keep weeds at bay . They also eat spoiled fruit and the fruit fly larvae that it contains .
• Other chickens and quail eat the fodder plants and provide manure ( and eventually feathers and other processing wastes ) for worms , Soldier Fly larvae , and composting systems .
The important thing about microponics is that there is no such thing as waste — everything becomes part of the nutrient cycle . Waste heat from chick brooders and lights ( and even the waste body heat from animals or birds ) can be used to modify environments in favor of other organisms . The scope of such integrations is limited only by one ’ s imagination . The integration of fish , plants , and microlivestock leverages the volume and quality of the food that we grow and it makes for a healthier and more resilient food production environment .
Our goal is to put clean , fresh food on the dinner table , so we use what works best — for the fish , plants , microlivestock , and other organisms , and that ’ s what microponics is all about !
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