Modern-Day Chinampas
Ancient Aztecs probably never thought they were creating a technology that could be used thousands of years later; they were just looking for a way to grow food with the resources that were available to them. Chinampas are rafts of food crops that float on the surface of a body of water. Aztec gardeners dug […]
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Aztec chinampas of Central America
An example of hydroponic principles that were being used successfully is that of the Aztecs of Central America. A nomadic tribe, they were driven onto the marshy shore of Lake Tenochtitlan,  located in the great central valley of what is now Mexico. Roughly treated by their more powerful neighbors, denied any arable land, the Aztecs […]
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