Blackhawk Creek Grill Whitehouse, TX Eastern Texas is, as LeeAnn Skinner describes it, a chain restaurant haven. With Texas being Texas, there is no shortage of roadside BBQ or the never-hard-to-find taco trucks. As the town of nine thousand residents slowly grows its population with transplants coming from Dallas and Austin, fine dining is [...]
Harvest Moon Aquaponics
mikec2023-05-11T20:28:35-06:00Harvest Moon Aquaponics Reading, PA We thought we've been everywhere for aquaponics: underground greenhouses, small-town America, barns, sheds, the Bahamas. But once in a blue moon an opportunity comes along that causes us to go, "Whoa." In July 2022 our once-in-a-blue-moon was Harvest Moon Aquaponics, a custom designed indoor small farm inside a.....car dealership! John [...]
Mobile Loaves & Fishes
mikec2023-04-21T09:20:06-06:00Mobile Loaves & Fishes Austin, TX Mobile Loaves & Fishes is a development of Community First! Village, a 51-acre community that provides affordable, permanent housing for hundreds men and women that previously experienced chronic homelessness in Austin, TX. The Village contacted The Aquaponic Source in 2020 for a custom-designed aquaponic farm to be built [...]
Bare Roots Organics
mikec2023-04-13T11:29:07-06:00Bare Roots Organics Jupiter, FL Michael Campbell founded Bare Roots Organics in Jupiter, Florida after working many years in video advertising and editing commercials for the Super Bowl. As time passed, and digital editorial work amounted to too many re-runs, Michael changed the channel on his career. Having extensive marine experience and raising coral reef [...]
Nancy Mattingly, an Example of an Example
mikec2022-05-20T12:13:35-06:00Nancy Mattingly's van broke down in 1978. It was a should-be catastrophe for the first time mother with a new-born daughter in need of a lift to daycare. Repairs were costly and a new vehicle more so. Nancy didn't know the 'how-to', but she knew the 'what-to': she obtained a mechanic's manual, worked between a [...]
Marine Education Initiative
JD Sawyer2024-03-06T11:51:43-07:00Marine Education Initiative Nick Metropulos with the Marine Education Initiative reached out to The Aquaponic Source in October of 2020 with a plan to establish an Aquaponics Food Security and Education Program as part of his non-profit. Based in Boca Raton, Florida, the Marine Education Initiative teaches children to be good stewards of the [...]
41 North Aquaponics
JD Sawyer2021-11-16T11:08:20-07:0041 North Aquaponics Hayden, CO Featuring a year-round, 3,680 square-foot passive-solar greenhouse, and located just 30 minutes drive from Steamboat Springs in Hayden, Colorado, 41North grows leafy greens, herbs, edible flowers, microgreens, and other vegetables for the direct local market throughout the Yampa Valley, providing fresh produce year-round to Steamboat, Hayden, Oak Creek, and Clark. [...]
FarmWild
JD Sawyer2020-10-27T15:08:50-06:00FarmWild Bellingham, Washington Located on 27 acres on the outskirts of Bellingham, WA, FarmWild is a small scale sustainable farm that has been providing pasture-raised chickens, eggs, turkeys, and pork products to the local community since 2016. The focus of FarmWild is to raise plants and animals using the most ecologically sound principals and practices. [...]
Grand Valley Greens – Indoor Aquaponic Farm
JD Sawyer2020-07-27T14:00:24-06:00Grand Valley Greens - Loma, CO Grand Valley Greens is located in western Colorado near the Utah border, in the small town of Loma. The client had recently retired from a longtime job, and saw a need for fresh, healthy produce in the western-slope area. After attending our 4-day Flourish Farming course, she decided to [...]
Forest County Potawatomi
JD Sawyer2023-05-01T10:43:23-06:00Forest County Potawatomi Aquaponics Laona, Wisconsin The Forest County Potawatomi (FCP) have lived in Forest County, Wisconsin, since the late 1800s. Around 1880, groups settled in areas near Blackwell and Wabeno and have lived in that area since, as well as in the Carter and Crandon (or Stone Lake) areas. Today, life on the reservation [...]
Bellavita Farm
JD Sawyer2020-02-19T11:33:46-07:00Bella Vita Farm Brookville, Maryland Bella Vita Farm LLC, is situated on 103 acres in the agricultural preserve in Brookeville, Maryland just 20 miles outside of our Nations Capital. The farm produces crops for livestock and a variety of greenhouse vegetables. At the center of Bella Vita Farm is an 1860’s historic manor home. The [...]
Pennock Family Farms
JD Sawyer2020-02-19T10:18:15-07:00Pennock Family Farms Berthoud, Colorado This aquaponic farm was a unique project from the start. The owners are 3rd generation farmers raising angus cattle and barley for Coors brewery. The farm also has two 500' long turkey barns that previously raised over 270,000 turkeys annually! The owners decided to convert a 100' section of [...]
Raven Ranch
Holly White2019-03-14T13:40:45-06:00Raven Ranch Idaho Raven Ranch is a custom 23 x 40' Flourish Aquaponic Farm located on a private homestead in Careywood, ID. The proud owners of this farm retired from their lives as medical professionals and decided that they would begin their journey as farmers using sustainable technologies to grow healthy, fresh, and safe produce [...]
I Choose Family Farm
Holly White2019-05-23T10:52:30-06:00I Choose Family Farm Alamosa, Colorado I choose Family Farm is a family owned farm, that has been around for several years producing an enormous amount of soil grow vegetables and fruits for the local markets and grocery stores reaching down into Taos, NM. After, years of growing in soil Jason the proud co-owner decided [...]
GroFresh Farms
JD Sawyer2019-03-14T13:45:27-06:00GroFresh Farms Grand Junction, Colorado What started out as an experiment to increase agricultural production density at a local church has become a high standard for local food production. GroFresh co-director Rick Kenagy established Canyon View Gardens in 2011 in an effort to multiply the church's budget earmarked for those who have fallen on [...]
Mental Health Center of Denver, Dahlia Campus
JD Sawyer2020-06-12T13:40:45-06:00Mental Health Center of Denver - Dahlia Campus Take a 5 minute tour of the Dahlia Campus Aquaponic Greenhouse with Tawnya Sawyer The Dahlia Campus Greenhouse is a 5,400 sq ft facility that we designed from the ground up. There was a great deal of community input regarding the types of fish and plants [...]
Ouroboros Farm
JD Sawyer2019-04-03T13:02:28-06:00Ouroboros Farm 12511 San Mateo Road - Half Moon Bay, California Ken Armstrong owns and operates this beautiful facility with a front end market and retail space followed by three 6,000 sq ft greenhouse bays. We worked closely with Ken to design a farm to maximize the bays while also providing comfortable amounts of [...]
Buttercrunch Farms
JD Sawyer2019-05-23T11:56:38-06:00Buttercrunch Farm Eagle, Colorado In the fall of 2016 we had the pleasure of building a custom aquaponics farm for Robert and Peri Berman of Eagle, CO. Robert and Peri did things right from the start and here is a little about their journey. Starting Small - They had a vision to build an [...]