Sometimes you can look back at a pivotal moment in your life and think, “I really was in the right place at the right time.” For us, that realization comes to mind when we think about how we made the jump from backyard hobbyists making a bit of money on the side to becoming full-scale...
Citizen Farm in Queenstown, Singapore Uses Closed-Loop Approach To Feeding Its Fish Citizen Farm is trying to take Closed Loop aquaponics to the next level by creating a way to sustainably provide protein-rich food for their fish. They use their on-farm produce waste, along with that from local restaurants and grocers to grow Black Soldier...
This month our start-up crossed a milestone we’re shocked to be crossing already. We turned 5 years old as a company! It’s crazy to think that we’ve already been at this for five years and humbling to think about how quickly 5 years can go by. We’ve certainly had our ups and our downs over...
Climeworks Captures Carbon Dioxide (CO2) From The Air An Recycles It To Grow Plants Climeworks is tackling climate change and Carbon Pollution head-on. Climeworks CO2 capturing technology was developed in order to captures CO2 that is in the air and trap it in filters to reduce atmospheric carbon levels. The filters contain a compound that...
Happy Wednesday! This week we have a bit of an abbreviated weekly harvest due to the holiday weekend. We’re excited to share time and food with friends and family, overeat to a completely unnecessary level and then not move from the couch for hours! We hope everyone is able to spend quality time with the...
Happy Friday! In this week’s harvest, we check in on all the schools receiving systems. We harvest our first week of FreshCSA shares off the farm, spend a day in the life with a FreshCSA customer, learn how to maintain the proper environment for the microbes in an aquaponics system and see what’s new around...
COO and Head Researcher Andrew Ingalls Featured in Northeastern University Alumni Magazine Our very own Andrew Ingalls was the spotlight feature this week in Northeastern University’s alumni magazine. Andrew graduated from Northeastern along with our CMO Kieran Foran in 2012. Before joining Trifecta Ecosystems he went on to study microbiology and volcanology at the University...
Happy Friday! We hope everyone had a busy and productive week. We know we certainly did. We continued our installs across the CREC school district. We got a bunch of new catfish from the Sound School, an aquaculture technical high school in New London. We also taste tested some produce from the system this week...
Bank Of America Awards Knox Grant For $200,000 Knox, a non-profit in Hartford dedicated to aiding and educating residents with urban gardening and farming, recently received a much deserved $200,000 grant from Bank of America. This grant will help Knox continue and expand their programs over the next two years. Specifically, this grant was awarded...
Plenty To Build 100,000sqft Urban-Vertical Farm In Seattle Plenty made waves earlier this year when it closed a $200 million dollar funding round led by international giant SoftBank. The company also counts Eric Schmidt and Jeff Bezos among its investors through their firm’s Innovation Endeavors and Bezos Expeditions respectively. Through Softbank, and 6 other follow...
