養魚兼種菜 紐約公寓化身有機農場
New Yorkers bring fish farms to urban jungle
譯解／陳家瑜 （中央社記者，曾任元智大學英文講師）
● NEW YORK, (AFP) - So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen?
● Christopher Toole and Anya Pozdeeva, two former New York bankers who founded the Society for Aquaponic Values and Education (SAVE), are there
to help.
● "We call it 'beyond organic,'" Pozdeeva, 39, said.
● Aquaponics is a technique with ancient roots for breeding tank fish, recycling their effluent-filled water to fertilize vegetation, then allowing this naturally cleaned water to drip back into the tank below.
● It's a perfect, miniature eco system that will let you grow healthy food right in a cramped apartment with almost no specialist equipment.
● "We built our system just from trash cans," said Pozdeeva, a slender woman who emigrated from Russia's Siberian region 20 years ago and still speaks English with a gentle accent.
● If growing fish to eat in your New York apartment sounds unlikely, then Toole and Pozdeeva are even unlikelier urban eco pioneers.
● Just a short time ago they were bankers working crazy hours among the skyscrapers of Manhattan, a far cry from the gritty Bronx where they are based
today.
● After the 2008 financial crash floored the banking industry, Toole, a vice president at Sovereign Bank, discovered he had a serious eye problem, which he says was stress-related.
● And both of them were severely disenchanted with their careers.
● "They know how to squeeze every drop out of you and then throw you away," Pozdeeva said.
● "We wanted two feet on the ground," said Toole,47, and striking-looking with a bushy gray beard and pork pie hat.
● Instead, he put two feet in the water.
● Toole knew a little about fish from childhood summers with his scientist father out at Woods Hole in Massachusetts, a famed marine biology research center in the Cape Cod area. Aquaponics, he reckoned, would let him marry sustainable food production with what he hopes will be an equally sustainable business model.
養魚兼種菜 紐約公寓化身有機農場
● （法新社紐約電）你或許是個會回收、開小車、盡量吃有機食物的人，但你有想過在自家廚房弄一個環保、永續的養魚場，而這個養魚場又可以供應天然肥料給一座菜圃嗎?
● 前紐約銀行家克里斯多佛．屠爾和安雅．波斯迪法，成立養耕共生價值與教育學會（SAVE），幫助人們完成這個夢想。
● 39歲的波斯迪法說，「我們叫它『比有機還棒』。」
● 養耕共生技術可追溯到古早時代，利用魚缸養魚，再回收牠們的汙水，為作物提供養分，最後讓自然淨化的水流回下方的魚缸。
● 它是一個完美的微型生態系統，你幾乎可不靠專業設備，就在狹小公寓裡種養健康食物。
● 波斯迪法說，「我們用垃圾桶創造出這個系統。」她身材纖細，20年前從俄羅斯西伯利亞地區移民美國，說英文時，還帶著一點腔調。
● 如果在紐約公寓養魚來吃聽起來不大可能，那屠爾和波斯迪法會成為城市環保先鋒，更令人難以置信。
● 不久前他們還是銀行家，在曼哈頓摩天大樓裡瘋狂工作，與目前在紐約布隆克斯過的寫實生活，大不相同。
● 2008年金融崩解重擊銀行業，當時還是永豐銀行副行長的屠爾，發現自己眼睛嚴重不適，他認為這與壓力太大有關。
● 而當時兩夫妻對工作已不抱任何幻想。
● 波斯迪法表示，「他們知道如何榨乾你，然後把你甩開。」
● 屠爾今年47歲，留著濃密花白的鬍子，頭帶捲邊平頂帽，十分引人注目，他說，「我們想腳踏實地地生活。」
● 不料，他卻兩腳踏進了水裡 。
● 小時候放暑假，屠爾常與科學家父親前往麻薩諸塞州鱈角區著名的伍茲霍爾海洋生物研究中心，也因此對魚類有一些了解。他認為，養耕共生系統，可以結合永續糧食生產和他希望也同樣永續的商業模式。
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