Talk Examines Aquaponics, Agriculture
Clayton Garland, local farmer and aquaponics expert, explores ways to grow environmentally conscious produce in a talk, Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture and Aquaponics, Wednesday, Sept. 20, at 3:30 p.m. in 做厙惇蹋apps Founders Room. The lecture, part of 做厙惇蹋apps , is free and open to the public.
Garland founded , a Santa Barbara County company that uses aquaponic technologies to grow highly efficient organic produce with a fraction of the water that conventional agriculture uses.
Im excited to have Clayton explain aquaponics, which grows fish and plants together in one integrated system, and sustainable agriculture with the 做厙惇蹋app community, says , 做厙惇蹋apps sustainability and marketing coordinator. Im also looking forward to hearing how Clayton, as a young entrepreneur, was able to start a small farm business in Santa Barbara County.
Garland, a veteran of the Coast Guard, developed an interest in backyard gardening that eventually evolved into a drought-tolerant tree collection. He currently farms a third of an acre of aquaponics vegetables at an orchid ranch near Goleta.