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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

Dahlia Campus for Health and Well-Being

Dahlia Campus for Health and Well-Being

Where is your farm located?

The Aquaponic Greenhouse is located at Dahlia Campus Farms and Gardens in Northeast Denver. The newly constructed Mental Health Center of Denver enriches lives and minds by focusing on strengths and well-being, known locally and nationally as a model for innovative and effective community behavioral healthcare.

Who […]

Dahlia Campus for Health and Well-Being2024-02-01T18:00:47-07:00

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:

  1. Soaking up the sunshine – Plants obviously love the sunlight. While indoor lighting options have […]
Outdoor Aquaponics2024-02-01T17:46:04-07:00

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.

Mozambique Tilapia Fingerlings – 25

  1. Be ready to receive your fish shipment – Fingerlings that are shipped are
    packed with an […]
10 Tips for Transitioning Fingerlings to Your Aquaponic System2024-02-01T17:33:07-07:00

7 Ways Aquaponics is Sustainable

Sustainability in Aquaponics

Aquaponics has been around for Sustainable Tilapiathousands 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 […]

7 Ways Aquaponics is Sustainable2019-05-20T11:51:54-06:00

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 […]

Aquaponic Gardener Profile – Flourish Farm2024-02-01T17:07:37-07:00

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
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