by Kristin Hughes | Mar 25, 2021 | Farm
By: Kaitlyn (Farm Manager) Herbs are typically easy to grow, and when used fresh, can add tons of extra flavor to meals, tea and cocktails. True Leaf Market created a guide on how to grow 40 different popular herbs, and it can be found here: Herb Growing Guide. All...
by Kristin Hughes | Mar 24, 2021 | Farm
By: Kaitlyn (Farm Manager) Collard greens (Brassica oleracea) are in the cabbage family, and they are commonly used in southern cooking.We grow collard greens on our aquaponics farm, and they do very well in our system. We harvest them using the cut-and-come-again...
by Kristin Hughes | Mar 11, 2021 | Farm
By: Kaitlyn Dykstra (Farm Manager) https://www.foodiecrush.com/how-to-ripen-avocados-perfectly/ The very first aquaponics system on the FoodChain farm was the barrelponics system. This system helped to demonstrate how aquaponics works and to show the potential of it...
by Kristin Hughes | Feb 25, 2021 | Farm
By: Alex (Farm Intern) What is pH? pH is an abbreviation for “potential of hydrogen” which comes from p standing for “power” and the standard capital H being the element hydrogen. pH is a measure of how acidic or basic/alkaline a solution (could be your water or soil)...
by Kristin Hughes | Nov 23, 2020 | Farm
By: Alex Deaton (Farm Intern) Over a year ago I was introduced to FoodChain here in Lexington, KY. This organization is a nonprofit organization that runs an aquaponics farm inside of the Breadbox on West Sixth St. I was told that the farm is self sustaining and began...
by Kristin Hughes | Sep 30, 2020 | Farm, Reading List
Required Reading: “In the past few years, there has been optimistic research into determining whether microgreens are more nutritionally dense per calorie than that of fully matured vegetables, fruits, and herbs. The 2012 article “Assessment of Vitamin and...
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