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South Africa: Aquaponics system teaches pupils to grow their own food

Janet Ogilvie and a colleague joke that they are guilty of "fish mass murder".

"In the eight years that we have been doing this, there have been unexpected circumstances," she said.

Ogilvie - who is involved in running a school aquaponics feeding scheme - works for Inmed SA, an NGO in partnership with Air Products SA that has helped set up aquaponics systems across the country.

Ogilvie and her team are helping schools grow vegetables including tomatoes, beans, spinach, onions, rocket, lettuce and peppers to supplement their feeding programmes.

School occupational therapist AdoreƩ Louw said the children were excited about the aquaponics system.

Ogilvie said it was vital to start teaching kids about aquaponics.

She said it was important to learn how to grow vegetables so that people could have access to healthy food.

Read more at the Times (Nico Gous)
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