by ddorband | Jan 24, 2012 | Food, Intern Blog, Urban Farming, Urban Foraging
From Vancouver to Los Angeles, younger generations are hearing the call to arms or rather the call to swap stilettos and suits for muck boots and overalls — uniting in a movement to farm within the limits of their city. A woman, Marcy Winograd, was quoted in a...
by ddorband | Jan 19, 2012 | Staff Blog, Sustainability
I just came across this link of a slideshow of Tumbleweed Houses. For those of you that don’t know about Tumbleweed Houses, they are basically tiny houses that are designed to be very space efficient. Some of them can even be built on a flatbed trailer that can be...
by ddorband | Jan 13, 2012 | Aquaculture, Intern Blog
Americans love seafood. Whether it’s sushi, a grilled filet of Mahi Mahi or a tuna steak. But it can sometimes be a game of Russian roulette as to where your seafood comes from and how safe it is to consume. Reports of tainted or even poisonous fish imports have and...
by ddorband | Jan 12, 2012 | Food
One of our volunteers, Dawn O’Brien, sent this video to me, which really sums up how we should all look at food not as something that comes to you prepared and packaged, but as a raw product that strengthens us and nourishes us at a very basic level. Yum!...
by ddorband | Jan 10, 2012 | Aquaculture, Aquaponics, Intern Blog
Currently, the Nourish The Planet aquaponics system lies on the property of a school in Campion, Colo. The school leases several greenhouses to us in order for our systems to operate. While we have yet to incorporate our aquaponics system with that of the classroom...
by ddorband | Jan 9, 2012 | Livestock, Sustainability
The 106th year of the National Western Stockshow is happening right now in Denver. This yearly event is one of the biggest (if not THE biggest) livestock shows in the country. Everything type of livestock imaginable is on display, and over 600,000 people attend the...
by ddorband | Jan 8, 2012 | Aquaponics, Staff Blog
I provide many tours of our greenhouse campus explaining the science behind aquaponics, which is a difficult concept to comprehend at times. I’ve realized that most people haven’t heard of aquaponics and don’t understand the details associated with this system...
by ddorband | Jan 6, 2012 | Aquaculture, Aquaponics, Food, Intern Blog
Congress is currently poised to vote on increasing regulations of imported seafood, which could essentially allow for growth in the domestic fish industry specifically aquaponics, according to an article from the Times Herald-Record in Middleton, New York. The article...
by ddorband | Jan 4, 2012 | Aquaponics, Intern Blog
As a child I grew up in a small town serenely located at the foot of the Rockies in Colorado, known as Loveland. Here, I learned what farming was as much of my surrounding community consisted of farmland. I recall driving by vast fields of soil, filled with row after...
by ddorband | Jan 2, 2012 | Staff Blog, Sustainability
I have been thinking a lot recently about how to motivate people. From family and friends to employees to strangers — it’s really quite difficult to motivate people to take action. It is so easy discuss what is wrong with the world or ourselves, but it is much...
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