Welcome to BioPonic EARTH, an Earth where growing food is so innovative it's almost Magic. We are going to take YOU on a Tour of what's possible for Agriculture in the 21st Century. The 19th Century marked the Industrial Revolution, a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production. It wasn’t long before the U.S. and other countries challenged themselves to make Agriculture more efficient and the technologies of industrialization was applied to farming. It was called "The Green Revolution". Since then three and one half million family farms in the U.S. have vanished, while large corporate farms have replaced them. The goal of these Big-Ag Farms–to be the supermarket for the world.


In this 21st Century, the pendulum swings back to a whole new way to grow food bringing healthy, organic, pesticide free food back to the people along with small farms serving local populations. This food can be grown in acre-sized systems, backyard systems, a garage, spare room or classroom. This new Agri-Tech makes all the difference. In some ways, it's High Tech. In other ways, it takes us back to the days when everyone had a garden and every Grandma knew how to can food. We invite you to read our MISSION STATEMENT below:


What is BioPonics? 

BioPonics is the process of biologically converting high nitrogen content organic plant based feed stock into nutrients used in the growing of plants. BioPonics that utilizes fish waste converted to nutrients to fertilize plants is called Aquaponics (AP). When the BioPonics is accomplished without the fish, we call it Nitraponics (NP). The bio-digested feed stock (which could be fish food), fertilizes the plants.


Together, Aquaponics and Nitraponics are Agri-Tech Disruptors that change the food growing equation and make it possible to grow food without soil or fertilizers while conserving at least 90% of the water that was necessary in tillage farming.


As of June 21, 2025, Aquaponics and Nitraponics became more important than ever for Agriculture because the U.S. bombed Iran's Nuclear facilities causing a major disruption in the world's fertilizer production. "Iran was the third largest exporter of Urea in 2024 (about 4.5 milion tons)." Urea is a primary source of nitrogen in fertilizers, and Iran along with several other Middle Eastern countries were primary producers of it. "Iran had already closed down much of its massive Urea production plants due to the Iran/Israeli war, but once the U.S. got involved, the shuddering of Urea production in Iran was sealed (for now). " For the full story, go to Zero Hedge article called "Global Fertilizer Market Thrown In Chaos After Mideast War Shutters Iran Urea Production".


Furthering the shortage of fertilizers worldwide is the retaliatory threat by Iran that they will close the Strait of Hormuz. If that is successful, the price of important commodities including oil and fertilizers with sky rocket due to the increased cost of by passing the Strait of Hormuz.


Suddenly a tiny Agri-Tech segment gets thrown into the spotlight because not one iota of fertilizers are used in BioPonics Systems. In Aquaponics the live fish effluent is broken down producing nutrient rich water so the plants grow and thrive without the addition of unnatural and unhealthy pesticides and fertilizers. In Nitraponics, the bio-digested feed stock fertilizes the plants. This is soilless, fertilizer-less growing where plants are raised in a substrate or simply immersed in the nutrient rich water.


And just in time, after twelve years of R&D, we are ready to bring this food growing technology to the world stage. BioPonic Earth offers custom designed state-of-the-art Agri-Tech that is both sustainable and highly efficient for Food Producing Environments such as Farms, Charitable Organization Projects, Schools or Home Survival Gardens. Wherever they are, no matter the size, we call them Food Forever Farms™.


BioPonic Earth is advocating for Local Food Production that takes food growing away from Big Ag and returns it to the people. For too long, we have allowed Big Food Growing and Producing Companies to take over our Food System. What did that give us? It gave us unhealthy GMO Food that has turned America into the Developed Country with the most obese citizens in the world according to 2022 statistics from World Population Review. 

BioPonic Earth is where Walls are made of Lettuce. The Wall below is made up of three kinds of lettuce and was growing in our Micro Food Forever Farm in California before we moved to AZ. 

This Demo Greenhouse that contained the Farm was only eight feet wide and 26 feet long. Not big, but the Farm was able to put out an amazing amount of Lettuce that we sold to local restaurants.


Food Forever Farms can be small or large. What's important is they get built and get built fast because food shortages are coming.


According to  TheMainWire.com  and the USDA, as of May 2024, China owns 346,915 acres of U.S. Farm- land. Can you imagine U.S. Citizens starving while China cultivates food on our land to ship off to China? See the Map at  Main Wire. 



We call it a Lettuce Wall. Lettuce is one of the main Vegetables grown in Arizona. Food Forever Farm Lettuce Walls make it fast and easy to plant, grow, harvest and sell as "Living Lettuce" with the Roots attached. There are no Roots in your Deep Media Beds when you grow Lettuce vertically on one of our BioPonic Earth Lettuce Walls.


If you want to learn more about us, email us to request, sign and return our Non Disclosure Agreement. Once that is complete, we will send you a document called "How Food Forever Farms Work". If after reading that first document, you would like to see "Part 1 of our Business Plan", then make that Request. If you are affiliated with a Native American Tribe, you can request our "Return To Your Roots" Document. If you would like to receive Consulting from Oliver Duffy, our retired NASA Engineer who engineers our Aquaponics Systems, set up a Consulting Agreement by just giving us a Call at 760-671-3053. The images below are not Links. You will receive these documents directly from us as PDFs.


If you need help navigating the Order of these Requests, just Call or Email our BioPonic Earth Office/Sales Manager, Staci Randall, and she would be happy to assist you. 


Our Business Plan goes into detail about our Competitors and why our Agri-Tech is superior, less expensive and more profitable for your bottom line. Once you sign our NDA, we'll send you a copy of it along with our "How A Food Forever Farm System Works" document.

Once you've read it, and have decided you want to build a Food Forever Farm, we'll create a Contract to define our relationship and establish the Licensing Agreement that covers the Farm you want to create.


Let's take back our Food System together!


We are Grace Sylke and Oliver Duffy, founders of both Aquaponics USA, which is our small-scale Aquaponics Systems company selling to Homes and Schools and BioPoinic Earth. Our mission at BioPonic Earth is to become the premiere provider of this highly disruptive food growing Agri-Tech that brings food growing back to local communities. The last 15 years of R&D has prepared us to launch BioPoinic Earth Food Forever Farms Agri-Tech at this time. 


We’ve put in the hours and built two Demo proof-of-concept Greenhouses and an indoor Growhouse containing a variety of different kinds of Grow Lights to get to this point. 

We are standing in front of one of our famous Lettuce Walls. The Agri-Tech that grows Lettuce Walls can also grow other Leafy Greens like Swiss Chard, Arugula, Bok Choy and even Herbs like Basil on these Walls. We believe we are one of the only BioPonic companies that has created a way to commercially grow Leafy Greens like lettuce, which is one of the most popular vegetables in the world, in a true near Vertical configuration complete with ease of planting and harvesting. 

We're going to ask you to sign an NDA before we show you our Vertical Agri-Tech. Why? Not because it's so Techy, but because it's so:


We are in a battle for our Food System. Everywhere you turn there are GMO's (Gut Molesting Organisms) that are making us sick and fat. Big Ag, Big Chem and Big Food Companies don't care about our health. They only care about thier bottom lines. We are their guinea pigs for testing unhealthy chemical additives and the next best pesticide. According to the Center for Nutrition Studies, "Food producers use any of 14,000 laboratory-made additives to make our food appear fresher, more attractive or last longer on the shelf."

 

It's time to TAKE BACK FOOD, the most important thing on our planet along with water. That means we need to return to our Agrarian Roots. It was only about 150 years ago when there were no Super Markets, no Pesticides, no Additives and all of our food was Organic because it was grown on Family Farms.


At BioPonic Earth, we are Revolutionaries who are proposing a new way to think about and grow our food! We invite you to join us.


Learn about our Food System on our Aquaganic™ Page where we discuss the difference between Food grown with Pesticides and food grown Organically, Hydroponically and Aquaponically. This page is a "must read" if you really want to know what's happening with the most important thing on our Planet next to water, OUR FOOD!


Before we close our Home Page, we want to share a glimmer of hope, which just showed up when RFK, Jr. was confirmed as our new Secretray of Health and Human Services. He appears to be a serious promoter of Healthy Food, and started his mission to make U.S. Food more healty by first banning Food Dyes as reported in this story by USA Today.


Come back to visit our us again soon. We'll be sharing the details of an upcoming Build Out of a Micro Food Forever Farm at the Biocybernaut Institute in Sedona, Arizona.