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…
Aquaponics in Schools
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…