Educational Classes

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We educate on innovative farming techniques as well as woodland medicinals. There was a period that doctors and medical schools had botanical gardens that were used as a pharmacy.
 

Woodland medicinals are a big part of this but now with deforestation, plants like ginseng and goldenseal, to name a few, are becoming endangered.   Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests to make the land available for other uses. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization an estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forest, which is roughly the size of the country of Panama, are lost each year. ​
 

Agroforestry - Woody perennials that are deliberately integrated with crops and/or animals on the same land management. Providing a dynamic, ecologically based, natural resource management system that, through the integration of trees in farm and rangeland, diversifies and sustains smallholder production for increased social, economic and environmental benefits.

Aquaponics have been around since the days of the Aztecs so that in itself is not a new technology.
The list of benefits is plentiful including the fact that it uses 90% less water than its soil-based counterpart.
 

​Water itself is a finite resource—even though about 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, less than one percent is available for human use. Forty out of 50 state water managers expect water shortages under average conditions in some portion of their states over the next decade. .
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​So, what if we could conserve this natural resource. What if your food never used pesticides or fertilizers…? What if your fish never lived in anything but naturally purified water…?
 

The positives are obvious but what if we could raise it to the next level. Deforestation is mentioned previously but what if we could grow plants like ginseng and gota kola in an aquaponics system. Common aquaponics systems grow leaf vegetables and the mainstay of tilapia. We are attempting to find new and old ways of growing popular ginseng, goldenseal and gota kola. Doing this we can achieve a system giving people a botanical pharmacy, fresh garden and a supply of fresh fish all without chemicals or contamination of any kind while preserving our most important natural resource. 

  The definition of Hydroponic is "water working", or the Greek words Hydro meaning Water and Ponos meaning labor. 

 Hydroponics is the process of creating a system that can recirculate water while supplying the plants roots with nutrients that are supported by an inert medium, such as perlite or gravel. 

While hydroponics has had its issues using chemical nutrients and Styrofoam, our systems are built with a big difference. 

 No Styrofoam is used in any of our systems, instead we use high grade HDPE, which is food safe.

 Instead of non-organic chemicals we use all-natural Norwegian Seaweed, Iron Chelate and Azomite (volcanic ash) for our organic nutrients.