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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
PBS produced this story about The GrowHaus on October 10, 2011.
In a low-income neighborhood in Denver, it used to be impossible to find fresh fruit or vegetables. Bordered on all sides by train tracks and highways, the 7,000 residents of Elyria-Swansea don’t […]
DENVER (CBS4) – Some believe it’s the future of farming because it uses only a fraction of the water. “The fish waste provides the nutrients to the plants,” explained J.D. Sawyer, owner of Colorado Aquaponics. Sawyer and his wife Tawnya have created a system of grow beds and […]
The Boulder News Team kindly featured Colorado Aquaponics’ Flourish Farms at GrowHaus. Check out this great video for the full story!
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 […]
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 […]
