What You Will Learn

• HOW TO BUILD, manage and operate the components integrated into an aquaponic farm model: deep water culture, media beds, a unique NFT system and aquaponic wicking beds. Learn harvesting, planting, seeding and other daily farm operations in the interactive farm sessions.
• HOW TO ASSESS a local market, determine production demand and how to develop a farm system and business to satisfy that market demand.
• HOW TO EXECUTE essential marketing and sales strategies: marketing and selling to restaurants, developing and managing a CSA or buying club and building a successful farmers market presence.
  

  Tools To Take With You

  

  Included with the course is The Complete Aquaponics Guide—over 200 pages of aquaponic basics, system start up, cycling, plant and fish management, insect and disease control, water quality, 30 pages of construction drawings and material/vendor lists to construct a farm system. Plus design drawings and step by step instructions to build your own farm system.

  Instructors
  

  JENI BLACKBURN

  Co-Founder & Managing Director,
  Fresh Harvest Farm

  As Managing Director, Jeni guides the farm business while also managing the farm’s marketing, food safety and administration. She also develops the farm’s aquaponic education program.

  

  DOUG BLACKBURN

  Co-Founder & Managing Director,
  Fresh Harvest Farm

  As co-founder and the farm’s manager, Doug manages all aspects of the farm’s daily operations from fish to plants and maintenance and pests.
  Tom Berindger

  Fall 2013 graduate
  This course has definitely exceeded my expectations. The instructors have done a great job providing a foundation anyone can use to plan a successful aquaponics operation.