How do you compare and contrast using words and images permaculture hydroponics and aquaponics?

Answer 1

Images are beyond the scope of this forum, however; Permaculture is the over-arching definition of a created, sustainable agricultural system that may or may not contain aquaculture or hydroponics. Aquaculture is technically "the rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food," however this definition is now inadequate, and has come to mean "the rearing of aquatic food animals in concert with other permaculture practices in a closed, self-sustainable system," the upshot being that the fish water is used as a nutrient for the plants, which filter the water for the fish--although aquatic plants also play a part.

Hydroponics is simply the production of food species without the use of soil, by the introduction of nutrients in solution into a growing medium that hosts the food plants' roots. While not generally used in Permaculture, which seeks to amend, maintain, and even create new soil regularly, hydroponics may be accomplished in an organic permaculture scenario also, and there is no reason that aquaponics could not furnish the solution.