EVENT CANCELED FOR AUGUST 23RD. STAY TUNED FOR NEW DATE.
Angela TenBroeck, the mayor of Marineland, will present Sustainable Farming with Small Farmers on Tuesday, August 23, at the African American Cultural Society in Palm Coast from 6 to 10 p.m. as part of the museum’s Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition, “Water|Ways.” AACS is at 4422 North US Highway 1, just north of Whiteview Parkway. (See: “Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition “Water|Ways” Opens at AACS’s Museum.”)
TenBroeck is a fourth-generation farmer, and head of the non-profit Center for Sustainable Agricultural Excellence and Conservation. The Florida commissioner of agriculture last year named her the Florida Woman of the Year in Agriculture. (See: “Angela TenBroeck, Marineland Mayor and 4th Generation Farmer, Is Florida Woman of the Year in Agriculture.”)
She sees aquaponics –the combination of co-dependently raising fish and plants without depending on ground soil or chemicals, and using fish waste as fertilizer–to be the next green revolution. She sees it as an essential step toward sustainability, repairing the planet, and ending hunger.
TenBroeck is putting the practice to work in Northeast Florida, starting from Worldwide Aquaponics, the company she heads and that’s centered on a 30-acre farm on School Road in East Palatka. From there, it spawns replicas. In 2020-2021, her operation pushed some 2.2 million pounds of produce into Flagler, St. Johns, Putnam, Duvall, Nassau, and Clay, counties.
“We could put these farms all over the world. And in places we have figured out how to run them without pumps, with low water… using old physics principles,” TenBroeck says. “Grow food as we’ve never grown food before, that’s high quality, lasts longer, tastes better, chemical free. And we can do this very simply.
In Duval County TenBroeck has taught innovative curriculums focused on students interested in professionalizing in medicine or coastal sciences; her initiatives pair entrepreneurship with a social mission. One of those is to channel “reemerging citizens” – formerly incarcerated individuals, veterans,
people in recovery, women starting over – into the farming enterprises.
Jimbo99 says
Nothing ground breaking here, Asians have been doing this for centuries. One flaw with it though, overpopulation pesticides & pollution are a problem. Living in Miami that is a special set of problems that can be applied to Flagler county, for nearly 2 decades, the growth there kept pushing the UDB deeper into the Everglades. The solution isn’t to alter the environment, it’s to refrain from overpopulating the planet. It also means to manage borders for those that have overpopulated where they are from. Sometimes you have to say “No” to the caravans, they created a bigger mess where they are trying to flee, only to perpetuate the overpopulation elsewhere. The irresponsible are usually like that, claiming someone is oppressing them when they can’t control their own reproduction and then demand a government solves a problem they continually perpetuate. Another example, starvation in Africa is like that. Their plan is to guarantee that their people survive by sheer numbers, a survival of the relatively fittest/healthiest. Even there they have the Ebola & Monkeypox. diseases they perpetuate. Bill Gates tried to save Africa, just not enough money & free healthcare really. Sorry to be a downer, just keeping it real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vhpsM5uriM
https://www.enviroscienceinc.com/services/laboratory-analysis/harmful-algal-blooms/
https://thenewtropic.com/algae-everglades-sugar/
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-dade-mayor-concerned-urban-development-boundary-expansion/
Christine says
It’s a song
Over Their
Over Their
No wait
Play bingo
Over Their
Isn’t that how it goes judge Judy and Elon?
Mmmm
How did they get there
Why don’t they leave
Bill Hillary Obama
We’re waiting
James says
A 4 hour seminar on farming? Yawn! Shoulda been cancelled before it was ever scheduled.