About urban farming, specifically urban fish farms. The experiment is run by a Milwaukee based community agriculture organization called Growing Power, run by former Basketball pro Willie Allen.
http://www.growingpower.org/I couldn't find a link to the bit from outdoor Wisconsin, but I found an article from the Urinal-Sentinel from a few months back.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=741286It seemed only fitting that 10,000 young perch would be released on a Friday into their new home at Growing Power.
As biologists dumped the wriggling yellow perch from 30-gallon buckets into an 80,000-gallon, 4-foot-deep raceway, the fish quickly disappeared into an innovative system designed to mimic nature inside a greenhouse.
The nonprofit urban farm on Milwaukee's north side is in business to promote methods for growing affordable food. The farm hopes to help make perch affordable again by establishing an indoor, eco-friendly fish farming system that's inexpensive to build and maintain, and can easily be replicated elsewhere, Growing Power founder and CEO Will Allen said.(snip)
"We have a lot of vacant barns. The cost of building this system is a fraction of what it costs (to farm fish) commercially. Imagine 50,000-gallon raceways raising perch in barns on farms."What he's doing is interesting. Perch used to be very common fare at taverns and restaraunts all along the great lakes for Friday night fish frys. Unfortunately, due to overfishing and invasive species, the local perch population has been in serious decline for years now. His solution is a very interesting one. The guy who runs the thing has a vision of vast vertical greenhouses set up like this in cities around the world to provide locally grown food.
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