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Aquaponics is great, you can start with a small tank, a few 5 gallon buckets for gravity and media filters, a a simple water pump to make the filtered water go up a shelf into a grow bed made from a big bakery container (filled with clay balls), a bell siphon to bring the water back to the fish tank, some pvc pipes for the piping. Grow lights, sump tank, bioreactors, water heater, and pH tester are optional but recommended. Replace the pvc with hdpe or uv treated pp after prototyping.
Start with tilapia which have a wide range of temps and pH they are ok with. But honestly I don't like the flavor of the greens it produces, dirt is the way to go for cabage and lettuce if you care about flavor, unless we are talking about a survival situation. However for things that have their own flavor like herbs, this setup works well.