George Farmer (aquascaper)
George Farmer is a British aquascaping expert.[1][2][3]
Farmer served as a Royal Air Force bomb disposal officer. After serving in Afghanistan, he suffered from PTSD and found that aquascaping helped him. He says that for him, "a well-aquascaped aquarium is the most therapeutic thing you can look at."[4][1] He started aquascaping in 2002 and made it his career.[2]
Farmer started a YouTube channel for aquascaping enthusiasts, which as of 2018 had 20 000 subscribers, rising to 200 000 as of 2023. He has been a columnist for the aquarium magazine Practical Fishkeeping for more than 10 years. In 2007 he co-founded the UK Aquatic Plants Society, which as of 2018 had 25 000 members.[1][5]
He is married with 3 children.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Vincent, Alice (21 January 2018). "Aquascaping: the addictive hobby that's making gardeners grow underwater". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ a b Perrone, Jane (10 May 2019). "Aquascaping: 'landscape gardening, but underwater'". Financial Times. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ Blom, Hans Petter (3 November 2019). "Hager under vann". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 17 May 2021.
- ^ Wace, Charlotte (1 May 2021). "Men lose themselves in the art of aquascaping". The Times. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "George Farmer - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
- ^ "About George". George Farmer Studios.
Bibliography
[edit]- Farmer, George (2020). Aquascaping. Skyhorse Publishing. ISBN 9781510753389.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- George Farmer in Practical Fishkeeping
- UK Aquatic Plants Society
- Jane Perrone, Episode 74: Aquascaping with George Farmer, podcast
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