Come visit and tour IRC’s newest community food project –
an aquaponic farm right in the heart of City Heights!

There are currently over 1,400 small tilapia growing
in two tanks connected to 12 hydroponic vegetable beds
all housed in a greenhouse.
The aquaponics system sits on a small site surrounded
by beautiful vegetable beds.

The site will eventually house several demonstrations
of efficient aquaponic growing techniques.
IRC's vision for the aquaponic farm is that it will d
emonstrate a variety of effective production techniques
that create a compelling case for more San Diego residents
to become engaged in growing, eating and/or
selling locally produced food.

Date: Saturday, June 19th

Time: There will a morning tour and an early afternoon tour. Details will be posted soon. This is the same day as the 2 year anniversary of the City Heights Farmers' Market (just down the street)


Location: On Fairmount between University Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard




Refugee aid group touts its newest healthy venture: urban aqua farm
BY DANA LITTLEFIELD, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 2010 AT 12:01 A.M.


JOHN GASTALDO / UNION-TRIBUNE

Jaime Garza, food and farming resource coordinator, steps around butter lettuce growing on theNew Roots Aqua Farm in City Heights. He had just installed a light on top of the growing area.


PHOTO BY JOHN GASTALDO - UNION-TRIBUNE

Juvenile tilapia eat food pellets in tanks on the New Roots Aqua Farm in City Heights. Their wastewater helps to grow vegetables on the quarter-acre farm.

SAN DIEGO — The fish — tilapia, to be exact — darted in their freshwater tanks Saturday morning, blissfully unaware of their role in powering a new urban farm and possibly a movement.

At the New Roots Aqua Farm in City Heights, operators explained that wastewater from the fish tanks flows through a series of hydroponic vegetable beds. The plants and the gravel in which they are grown filter the water, which is returned to the fish tanks.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/20/refugee-aid-group-touts-its-ne...



9:09 pm
June 21, 2010


There is a story in the San Diego Union Tribune
June 20, 2010 but I cannot find it.

Here is the press release.

I will get a link.

I am sure it will show up.

http://www.theirc.org/us-program/us-san-diego-ca/aquaponic-farm-tour-june-19


 

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