Aquaponics at State High

Breaking down one of our systems for the summer. "Make it look showroom"! They look at me like I am crazy 🤪 But they get to work anyway 👍🏆🥇 State College Area School District State College Area High School

Tomato plants are flowering and our student farmers are making sure that pollination happens. State College Area High School State College Area School District

Final day for the semester class: Aquaponics and Sustainability 😞 Photos of the group giving their final greenhouse tour and then reaping the rewards of free ultra-local fresh lettuce 🥳 So much fun. Great group. Lots of learning. Lots of growing. They will be missed 💚🥗 State College Area School District State College Area High School

Our three crop rotation with two week harvests is in full swing. Super fresh hyper local lettuce in the Winter months 👍😎🐟🥗 State College Area School District State College Area High School

Introducing our new friends. Thanks to Hanover Koi Farms LLC for all their help and to SCASD PTSO for the grant to purchase our 10 new Koi fingerlings. They will stay in this nursery tank a month or so and then go into our second aquaponic system. 🐟🥬 State College Area School District State College Area High School

An update on our first batch of Salanova Oakleaf Lettuce. Looking good 🥗 Plan to harvest before Thanksgiving. I State College Area School District State College Area High School

The Earth without art is just eh. In our Aquaponics and Sustainability course we add the A to STEM to make it STEAM 😁 🌱🐟🎨 State College Area School District State College Area High School

First planting of the season 👍🌱 Aquaponics at State High is growing 😁 We should be selling our lettuce to staff in 4 weeks. State College Area School District State College Area High School State College Magazine Nothing like local grown, in the Fall.

Baseline water quality testing and recording today. Then classroom work to understand "fishless cycling". Good things happening in Aquaponics and Sustainability at State College Area High School State College Area School District StateCollege.com

Heck Yeah! After a year and a half of waiting to get our system up and running (pandemic shut us down) we put water in our Nelson and Pade F5 today. These students are part of our HS Aquaponics and Sustainability class at State College Area School District. at work.👍🎉🐟🌿🌱

Thank you to State College Magazine for the nice article!
I am so looking forward to seeing this online course take off. Thank you Blue Stream Farms for including me in your project.
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