Food for the Future
Mary Loquvam, founder and Director of the York Community Farm, will share with us how she and the York Community are developing a sustainable symbiotic food-growing system at their urban farm. York Community’s Farm’s vision is to create a living wage, skill-building, and sustainable aquaponics industry in Whatcom County. Aquaponics is system of agriculture wherein fish are grown in tanks, and their nutrient-rich “fishy” water is pumped to vegetables growing near the tanks. The plants then up-take nutrients from the water and return clean water to the fish.
The mission to date has been to create food security projects in the city, to provide a living-wage, resume-building internship program for our community's underserved (veterans, homeless, and recently incarcerated), and to serve as a model of sustainable urban food production.
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