Sundown Hazen is a founding board member of SchoolGrown, Inc., a non-profit in Monterey, CA, dedicated to promoting sustainable agriculture through advocacy, education, research, and service. Sundown works closely with founder Jon Parr to develop the organization and build a platform for communities and schools to enrich education, while providing pesticide-free produce to their local community. Listen up as we discuss social entrepreneurship through the makings of a blended non-profit providing food and educational services to students and schools, fundraising techniques, and practical aquaponic systems design.
Connor Jones is the founder of East End Eden, a Permaculture farm showcasing sustainable farm design and application in the east end of the Ojai Valley. Listen up as we talk about aquaponics and its applications to permaculture design, “closing the loop,” animal fodder, and propagating riparian trees. The folks at East End Eden seek to educate and inspire through their examples of landscape restoration and succession into abundance using permaculture ethics and principles. The farm offers a look into a future that can meet all the needs of humanity and the rest of the community of life by creating a cultivated farm ecology. With “earth care”, “people care”, and “fair share” in our hearts, minds, and all designs we can go forward indefinitely!
Tim Mann is the co-founder of Friendly Aquaponics, in Honokaa, Hawaii. Friendly Aquaponics is one of the leading pioneers in the Aquaponics movement and the development of commercial, Deep Water Culture aquaponics. As the technical writer, builder, and developer of the Friendly Aquaponics farm, website, manuals, and greenhouse trainings, Tim is a wealth of information in commercial aquaponics, passive solar greenhouse design, tilapia breeding, and appropriate technologies that are energy-efficient and highly productive.
Gary Koffler is on the SchoolGrown Board and the official “Aquaponics Evangelist.” He first started with aquaponics as an aquarist and automation expert who was pleasantly surprised when the overflow from fish tanks going to plants in the ground created an unexpected result, over 20 years ago. Listen up for info on the SchoolGrown project in CA, Ag-bots, and tips for both beginners and entrepreneurs!
Jesse Hull and Molly Stanek, of Imagine Aquaponics are designers, experimenters, and consultants in the aquaponics, organic hydroponics, and integrated aquaculture fields. Imagine Aquaponics consults both nationally and internationally.
Tim Mann is the co-founder of Friendly Aquaponics, in Honokaa, Hawaii. Friendly Aquaponics is one of the leading pioneers in the Aquaponics movement and the development of commercial, Deep Water Culture aquaponics. As the technical writer, builder, and developer of the Friendly Aquaponics farm, website, manuals, and greenhouse trainings, Tim is a wealth of information in commercial aquaponics, passive solar greenhouse design, tilapia breeding, and appropriate technologies that are energy-efficient and highly productive.
Maribou is a backyard aquaponics grower, permaculturist, and serial entrepreneur who seeks to spread information about integrating aquaponics and permaculture for the most productive, sustainable, healthy, and regenerative food and water systems in the world. In this podcast, she interviews the pioneers, activists, and entrepreneurs in the Aquaponics and Integrated Agriculture movement for food and water security. Her mission is to teach people, particularly aspiring entrepreneurs, how to start, grow, and profit from an aquaponics business while creating a huge impact in the world. That is, improving access to affordable, organic foods, increasing food security in urban food deserts, increasing water security in high mountain deserts, improving community health, and creating streams of income that didn't exist before. She envisions helping schools, hospitals, health centers, cruise ships, retreat centers, permaculture farms, ecovillages, kids camps, backyards, Native American reservations, and many types of organizations increase their impact through integrated passive solar aquaponic systems.
FRESH Farm Aquaponics in South Glastonbury, Connecticut started with a vision Spencer Curry had for high-quality, organic, and natural food grown locally, all across the world. He believes the urgency for food and water security is dire and that aquaponics presents the best opportunity for us all to have a secure food and water supply, free from pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics and other chemical taints. Listen in as we discuss aquapreneurs, growing the growers, “Build-Alongs,” and biochar!