{"id":135973,"date":"2021-08-27T09:24:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T13:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=135973"},"modified":"2021-08-27T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T13:37:07","slug":"lincoln-farms-doing-agriculture-the-modern-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/lincoln-farms-doing-agriculture-the-modern-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Farms- doing agriculture the modern way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aquaponics is a modern way of farming.<\/p>

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It is a food production system which allows farmers to grow vegetables and raise fish at the same time.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an integrated system where there is a synergy between hydroponics and aquaculture.<\/p>

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\u201cWhat we have here is an Aquaponics facility.\u00a0 Aquaponics is basically the integration of hydroponics which is growing plants or vegetables in a soilless culture using water as the medium and aquaculture which is raising fishes. Once you bring them in an integrated system, it\u2019s called Aquaponics\u201d, said Wayne Gardner, Owner of Lincoln Farms.<\/p>

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Lincoln Farms is a memorial for the late Lincoln Gardner.<\/p>\n

The facility has been in existence for seven years but opened to the public for six years.<\/p>

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According to Wayne, his father was a fisherman by profession but in his senior years, he transitioned to agriculture before his passing in 2014.<\/p>\n

For a little while after, the work on the farm continued under his mother\u2019s supervision.<\/p>

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However, it was not very profitable thus the birth of the Aquaponics Farm.<\/p>

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\u201cMy father was a fisherman and after getting to a certain age, we didn\u2019t like the fact that he was going on the seas to fish. Not wanting to keep still, you know how these older folks are, he got this piece of land and started doing agriculture on it\u201d Gardner said.<\/p>\n

The combination of both entities – fishing and farming, was Wayne\u2019s brilliant idea, costly but quite a successful one.<\/p>\n

However, the journey was not easy and looking back at the road to success, he can afford to smile at all the hurdles and setbacks he had encountered.<\/p>\n