The Tucson AquaPonics Project, an open-source, non-profit, community supported training and resource organization is designed to help individuals and communities achieve 'Food Freedom' and Food Security. Food Freedom includes the right and the ability to grow, eat, trade, buy and sell locally or regionally grown, safe, healthy, delicious foods free from Genetic Engineering (GE), Genetically Modifi
ed Organisms (GMO), drugs, hormone modifications, irradiation and/or pesticide/herbicide/sewage contamination. Food security in desert or arid regions is different than in well-watered areas and is a primary focus of the Tucson AquaPonics Project. Food security involves creating and managing healthy, sustainable ecosystems and environments of diverse biological systems that require very few outside inputs to maintain their long term viability and productivity. The Tucson AquaPonics Project is committed to supporting organic food production, both by Aquaponics methods and land-based agriculture. The Tucson AquaPonics Project will research and test methods and designs for constructing and operating low-cost Aquaponics systems in non-tropical desert or arid climates, as well as provide training and support for individuals and communities that desire to pursue Aquaponics.