# Aquaponics on Mars with Benz Kotzen (GotG61)

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Podcast: [Gardeners of the Galaxy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/gardeners-of-the-galaxy-744695)
Published: 2024-09-30T11:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://gardenersofthegalaxy.podbean.com/e/aquaponics-on-mars-with-benz-kotzen-gotg61/
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Duration seconds: 1910

## Resource

Our Mission Specialist for this episode is Benz Kotzen, a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Nature Based Solutions at the University of Greenwich. He’s here to tell us about his FEEDING MARS project, which showcased a live experiment growing vegetables, herbs and fruits in Martian simulant soils, using fish effluents from an aquaponic system as fertilizer. Sign up for the Gardeners of the Galaxy: MIssion Report newsletter to get new episode alerts and bonus astrobotany content: https://emmadoughty.substack.com/.

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