Our business endeavor will focus initially on raising natural Tilapia fish, organic basil, lettuce, and other specialty herbs that we will sell to restaurants, individuals, as well as donating to the local homeless shelters and food-banks.
    Our buildings include a 36’ x 130’ greenhouse adjoining a 30’ x 80’ steel building to house our fish tanks. The structure layout/design allows for future expansion of another greenhouse of the same dimension, that gutter connects, side by side to the existing greenhouse.
    Plants will grow in a hydroponic floating raft technique where nutrients for the plants are provided by the fish water, in what is called an Aquaponic system. Aquaponic systems re-circulate water, very water conservative, and encourage vigorous plant growth.
    In traditional aquaculture operations, fish grow at high density stocking levels and the waste produced by the fish must be removed to prevent toxicity and injury to the fish. The primary waste from fish is in the form of ammonia and nitrogen. Typically the water in an aquaculture system exchanges with fresh water and the wastewater, redirecting down stream, where it can cause nitrate pollution. In hydroponics, plants feed on a nutrient rich solution while growing in a soil-less environment. The fertilizers needed for hydroponics can be very costly and usually derived from inorganic chemicals. However, aquaponics combines these two practices by using bacteria to convert the ammonia from the fish into the nitrate form desired by plants as a primary source of nutrition. The plants filter the water, removing the nitrogen so that the water can be returned to the fish, eliminating toxic build-up. Plants grown in aquaponics are of high quality and express desirable characteristics such as increased flavor, aroma and size.