How an Amazing Cafeteria Manager Won The USDA Practices Award For Child Nutrition working with At-Risk Youth in North Carolina
When Janice Wood began working as part of the culinary team at Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center in Concord, NC this past year, she figured…
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Aquaponics and Farming Education Proving to be Huge Benefit to High School Students
On a normal day in Brandy Starnes’ fourth block class, you can expect to see dedicated students working on projects and completing daily tasks. You…
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Students Surmount Huge Odds to Build Aquaponics Garden
This greenhouse in Charlotte, NC looks ordinary from the outside. However, its interior hosts the very future of sustainable agriculture: a state-of-the-art aquaponics system.…
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Stonewall Jackson YDC Horticulture Program Featured on NC Dept. of Public Safety Newsletter (Jan 2015)
CONCORD | Produce grown by students at Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center is helping to feed the homebound of Cabarrus County. A special partnership…
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First Concert to be Held at Seeds on 36th – Burger Records Revolution Show
BURGER REVOLUTION 3 IS HAPPENING MARCH 7, 2015 ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! AND WE ARE A PART OF IT!!! On March 7, 2015 Burger…
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Newest Aquaponics Lab! “Garden 6” Underway at Adventist Christian Academy
We are proud to partner with Adventist Christian Academy in Charlotte, NC to build the latest Aquaponics Lab (Garden 6/100). The Lab will include…
Aquaponics in Schools
Experiential Learning Through Aquaponics – Part 1 Garinger High School
The aquaponics operation at Garinger High School has begun! Students will be managing and operating the aquaponics system that will produce 180 servings of leafy…
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South Iredell High School AquaLab Construction – Part 4
Brake Winch for lowering and raising ZipGrow Towers. Note the water trickling into the catchment gutter. No splashing even from up at 7ft. The…
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South Iredell High School AquaLab Construction – Part 3
The ZipGrow Vertical Hydroponic Towers are now hanging! We installed two horizontal steel supports to mount the top pulleys. These supports are also supported…
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South Iredell High School AquaLab Construction – Part 2
After our last post, Ron Morgan engaged students at SIHS who are eagerly waiting for the AquaLab to be complete. Topics covered ranged from…
Aquaponics in Schools
South Iredell High School AquaLab Construction – Part 1
New Jaderloon Greenhouse just finished at SIHSInside the AG Mechanics workshop looking into the new greenhouse. Construction of the South iredell High School AquaLab…
Aquaponics in Haiti
Mahanaim, Haiti Aquaponics Part 8
All the concrete has been poured for the grow beds and the fish tank. The crew has done an excellent job and now they…
Aquaponics in Haiti
Mahanaim, Haiti Aquaponics Part 7
Today the crew began pouring the concrete walls for the growing beds. The plywood was the 3/4″ thick board and had to be cut…
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Mahanaim, Haiti Aquaponics Part 6
Productivity was in the air today in Mahanaim. The construction crew got started at 8am and worked until 7pm with only about 30 minutes…
Aquaponics in Haiti
Mahanaim, Haiti Aquaponics Part 5
Progress continued today as we finished all the drainage plumbing and also completed the rebar assembly for the in-ground fish tank. We could not…
Aquaponics in Haiti
Mahanaim, Haiti Aquaponics Part 4
Today was very hot…the sun was as intense as I have ever felt and I paid the price for trying to withstand it for…
Aquaponics in Haiti
Mahanaim, Haiti Aquaponics Part 3
Today was quite an experience. Actually that’s an understatement. Today was a truly unbelievable experience. We attended to church services one in Mahanaim and…
Aquaponics in Haiti
Mahanaim, Haiti Aquaponics Part 2
Language barriers can create obstacles, especially regarding construction…The construction team in Mahanaim got right to work following the site layout. As the plots for…
Aquaponics in Haiti
Mahanain, Haiti Aquaponics Part 1
Today implementation started in Mahanaim. Luiguy Massanga has worked incredibly hard developing the village in Mahanaim and the aquaponics garden has been a vision…
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Garinger High Urban Farm on Local News
Great video interviews from all partners involved in the Garinger High Urban Farm. Thanks to Friendship Gardens and Bobbie Mabe, this project is attracting…
