Aquaponic and Greenhouse Pioneers Partner

Colorado Aquaponics and Ceres Greenhouse Solutions Announce Strategic Partnership to Educate Customers and Bring Energy-Efficient, Integrated Aquaponic Greenhouses to Market.

Colorado Aquaponics and Ceres Greenhouse Solutions have partnered to create 23-x-40-Aquaponics1super energy-efficient, integrated aquaponic greenhouses. The new greenhouse
designs build off each […]

Aquaponic and Greenhouse Pioneers Partner2024-02-01T17:58:29-07:00

Sustain: How Colorado Aquaponics is Changing the Food System

“The food system is out of balance,” says JD Sawyer, founder of Colorado Aquaponics, which houses an aquaponics farm known as Flourish Farms. “We’ve got to figure out a way to have higher quality foods using less resources, period, or it’s not gonna work. It’s really gonna take a grassroots effort. Instead of […]

Sustain: How Colorado Aquaponics is Changing the Food System2024-02-01T18:02:51-07:00

Aquaponic Farm at Mental Health Center of Denver

After more than two years of community meetings, many to seek buy-in from residents, the new Dahlia Campus for Health and Well-Being opens next month. The new center’s model is unique nationally. It will treat children who have suffered trauma — most often from abuse or neglect — as well as their parents and foster parents. […]

Aquaponic Farm at Mental Health Center of Denver2024-02-01T18:03:44-07:00

Denver Business Journal features Flourish Farms

Denver Business Journal The Sawyers are among a new breed of urban farmer who go beyond the tomato pot on the apartment balcony or the back-yard chicken coup.

They are using the techniques of “aquaponics” — growing fish and produce alongside each other, recycling water […]

Denver Business Journal features Flourish Farms2016-03-14T11:06:36-06:00

CBS 4 Denver Nightly News Story about Colorado Aquaponics and the GrowHaus

DENVER (CBS4) – Some believe it’s the future of farming because it uses only a fraction of the water.  “The fish waste provides the nutrients to the plants,” explained J.D. Sawyer, owner of Colorado Aquaponics.  Sawyer and his wife Tawnya have created a system of grow beds and […]

CBS 4 Denver Nightly News Story about Colorado Aquaponics and the GrowHaus2024-02-01T15:52:22-07:00

Colorado Aquaponics Rises from Ashes of Economic Downturn

The onset of the economic downturn may have proven to be a blessing in disguise for one of Denver, Colorado’s poorest inner city neighborhoods. Like so many other accomplished professionals, JD Sawyer was laid off from his job as the Director of Operations for Johnson & Wales University Denver campus in 2009. With extra time […]

Colorado Aquaponics Rises from Ashes of Economic Downturn2024-02-01T15:16:37-07:00
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