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...
by ddorband | Dec 29, 2011 | Business, Ecology, Intern Blog
Here’s a blog written by one our interns, Allison Baxter, reflecting on the work being done here at Nourish the Planet: Every day something new is happening. Progress is made, knowledge is gained, and growth is accomplished. Whether it’s in the...
by ddorband | Dec 27, 2011 | Aquaculture, Aquaponics, Staff Blog
Earlier this month, a group of us went to the Bellevue-Watson Hatchery to take a tour of their operations. The hatchery is one of the Colorado Division of Wildlife facilities located a little north of Fort Collins, CO. They operate two separate facilities: one is a...
by ddorband | Dec 19, 2011 | Business, Staff Blog
One of our members of our new Nourish the Planet Membership Community sent me a link recently about a great entrepreneur who has developed robotics for agriculture. This entrepreneur totally embodies what we are trying to do at Nourish the Planet. This little company...
by ddorband | Nov 20, 2011 | Business, Education
We are located in beautiful Northern Colorado, about one hour from both downtown Denver and Denver International Airport. We have three campuses, two of which are in the southern suburb of Loveland, Campion, and the third is just south of Carter Lake. You will find a...
by ddorband | Oct 10, 2011 | Food, Gardening, Urban Farming
That’s right I think it is safe to say there are no Urban gardens in the capital city of the country of Qatar. How do I know this? Well I was there very recently, for one thing, and for another, we are working on a long-term integrated indoor agriculture...
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