Plans are for the farm to annually produce 3 Produce than can be grown on the same footprint of a conventionally Gottsacker said it requires only eight gallons per minute of new,įresh water to make up for water lost through spills and evaporation.īy Superior Fresh said its greenhouses allow it to grow 30 times more Million gallons of water is in the system at any given time, The fish-waste from water that’s discharged from it. Organic-certified fish and greens, with the vegetables having removed System provides an environmentally friendly way to grow its Where vegetables are fed by the fish-waste. WaterĬontaining waste from the fish is cycled to the farm’s greenhouse, Nation’s only land-based Atlantic salmon operation. The Superior Fresh aquaponics farm near Northfield in Jackson County, Wisconsin, will have a 2-acre Atlantic salmon unit and a 12-acre greenhouse when an expansion project is completed next year. Latest expansion will have a 2-acre fish house and a 12-acre Greenhouse the greenhouse was expanded to 6 acres in 2018. Operation opened in 2017 with a 1-acre fish house and a 3-acre Ground was broken for Superior Fresh on the 720-acre farm which, along with the salmon and vegetable-growing operations, has more than 75 acres of land planted with native seeds, 30 acres of woodlands and savanna clearings, more than 2,800 new trees and shrubs and more than 600,000 herbaceous plants.
“There are an awful lot of changes taking place here at the farm,” said Superior Fresh president Brandon Gottsacker. Production unit and leafy vegetable growing system. Interstate 94 and Highway 121, in 2017 started selling leafy greensįrom its facilities, which include a closed-system Atlantic salmon The world’s largest aquaponics farm has been in operation only for a couple of years at Northfield in Jackson County, but it’s already expanding.
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