Planning for your Greenhouse
With the newonline greenhouse coursecompleted and the coming of spring, it's a good time to get […]
Growing Food, Growing Minds, Growing Community
A Collaboration Between The GrowHaus and Colorado Aquaponics
When we entered the GrowHaus on an icy overcast day in January of 2010, it was hard to imagine how the space was going to someday grow food for a food desert neighborhood.We put our newborn twins in a grocery cart left in the frozen dirt parking […]
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.
LONGMONT, CO (PRWEB) SEPTEMBER 22, 2016
Colorado Aquaponics and Ceres Greenhouse Solutions have partnered to create
super energy-efficient, integrated aquaponic greenhouses.The new greenhouse
designs build off each […]
Outdoor Aquaponics
There are some really great things associated with growing outdoors, like Mother Nature intended.Living in Colorado, we enjoy growing indoors in the cold weather months, then move the system outside during the warm weather.
Things to consider when growing outside:
- Soaking up the sunshine– Plants obviously love the sunlight.While indoor lighting options have […]
10 Tips for Transitioning Fingerlings to Your Aquaponic System
So you've ordered your fingerlings or picked them up from a local supplier.Here are some steps to receiving, acclimating and caring for your new little aquaponic fin-friends.
- Be ready to receive your fish shipment– Fingerlings that are shipped are
packed with an […]
7 Ways Aquaponics is Sustainable
Sustainability in Aquaponics
Aquaponics has been around for
thousands of years, and back then, no one used words like sustainable.They just understood that by working with nature, they would have more food.Today we place value on sustainability, and we want to […]
Aquaponic Gardener Profile – Flourish Farm
Flourish Farms
Denver, CO
Established 2011 & Owned by JD and Tawnya Sawyer
Boot-strapped through a successful Kickstarter campaign the aquaponic food grown at Flourish Farms (run by Colorado Aquaponics) travels less than 5 miles to the customer.Even better, everything is harvested within a few hours of being eaten.Together with the non-profit organization The GrowHaus, Colorado Aquaponics works […]
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 […]
The Story of AquaSprouts: Inspiring Aquaponics Education
The Story of AquaSprouts
Meet Jack Ikard.A young gentleman with a passion to feed minds and fuel curiosity with aquaponics.Jack was introduced to aquaponics by his environmental science teacher during his junior year of high […]
The top 10 reasons why your aquaponics system isn't cycling
Establishing the nitrogen cycle, AKA ‘cycling', can be the hardest part of aquaponics, in part because the activity is all invisible to the naked eye.Aquaponics cycling, however, is the most crucial and probably the most difficult part of aquaponics – but it really isn't that hard if you can be patient!We hope that […]