Social Enterprise Uses Aquaponics To Grow Healthy Organic Food

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4 years ago

<h3 dir="LTR" style="text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The New Venture will lead to Right Way to get a Healthy and Affordable Food</h3>&NewLine;American entrepreneurs, Nadia Robinson and Louis Bookoff have launched a social enterprise to grow and distribute healthy, organic food&period; The Locals Smart Grow Aquaponics Farm has already started small scale production to meet the growing demand for organic produce&period;&NewLine;With degrees in Bio-technology, Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises, Robinson also has multiple years of greenhouse experience&period;&NewLine;After playing key roles in launching three start-ups, she teamed up with Bookoff, who is currently majoring in Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises and Accounting at the Whitman School of Management&period;&NewLine;He has a passion for food and has led various marketing campaigns for restaurants along with a startup company&period;&NewLine;The brilliant idea they came up with is Locals – a sustainable vertical aquaponics growing system for organic produce that is affordable for all members of the community&period;&NewLine;Locals is giving people a healthy food choice&period; Currently their is a lack of quality food source and what currently is practiced isn&&num;8217&semi;t healthy &period;&NewLine;They&&num;8217&semi;re believe that food shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t make you sick and that when growing food corners should not be cut&period; At Locals we just want to be the change and help others by growing food that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t make you sick&period;&NewLine;<img class="aligncenter wp-image-873" title="Social Enterprise Uses Aquaponics To Grow Healthy Organic Food" src="http&colon;//incrediblemag&period;com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Guest-Post-2-1024x437&period;jpg" alt="Social Enterprise Uses Aquaponics To Grow Healthy Organic Food" width="576" height="245" />&NewLine;Aquaponics is a sustainable farming method that utilizes aquatic animals to supply nutrients for plants to grow&period; The plants in turn purify the water&period;&NewLine;The project came to life after years of research and development to meet the growing demand for organic produce that is affordable for the consumer&period;&NewLine;The company also has a strong focus on being transparent and socially responsible, with a vision to give everyone access to healthy food regardless of their income or location&period;&NewLine;With the high-quality organic food produced, the company aims to significantly reduce the cost to the consumer and provide affordable alternatives for them to live healthier lives&period;&NewLine;A fundraising campaign recently launched on the crowd funding site, Indiegogo, aims to raise money to expand the development and production of organic food on a commercial level&period;&NewLine;The money will be used to lease grow room, purchase sensors for continuous monitoring and environmental controls, and build the first line of prototypes&period;&NewLine;Funds will also be allocated to purchase fish, seeds and other essential materials needed for an aquaponics system&period;&NewLine;In the last five years, thousands of dollars have already been invested to develop the system&period;&NewLine;The next step involves consultation with a commercial aquaponics system designer to configure the existing small scale system to commercial specifications to meet the public demand&period;&NewLine;