Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour School Hydroponics Project Recently, we teamed up with the Atalaya Elementary Schoolin Santa Fe to introduce hydroponics into their school programs. Volunteer and parent, Anna Pollock spearheaded this project to bring soil-less...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Replacing the Sump Tank A critical part of any closed-loop aquaponics system is the sump tank. Because it needs to be the lowest point in the system, it is often placed below ground. Our last tank was made of reinforced plas...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Cafecito now offers Desert Verde salads and microgreens We are delighted to have recently added Santa Fe's innovative restaurant cafecito to our growing list of customers. Jordan Isaacson, their new chef, chose our leafy greens and microgreens to accompany...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Our Next Expansion Phase is Completed After several delays, we are able to start flowing water through the first of two new vertical rack systems. Thanks to a grant from the NM Economic Development Department, we have added almost 4,000 n...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour As agriculture sucks up water, some farmers try sustainable growing Recent interview and streaming radio program on KUNM local PBS station. Click here to read or listen to the interview....
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Save Water Santa Fe We were recently interviewed by Christina Chavez of the Santa Fe Water Department and organizer of the Save Water Santa Fe radio program and streaming podcast. The episode can be heard here by clickin...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Expansion When designing Desert Verde Farm's initial build, I felt it important to stage our production capacity. After all, we had not established a market for a hypothetical product, Could we grow successfull...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Aquaponics Association Annual Meeting in Albuquerque Yes, that's right! The National Aquaponics Association is holding its annual meeting this year in Albuquerque, NM. Encouraged by the expanding regional interest in this technology, the organization de...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Federal Farm to Food Bank Program Federal grant aims to increase food banks' supplies of locally grown meat, produce By Kathleen Stinson For The New Mexican Mar 16, 2023 Updated Mar 17, 2023 A new federally funded program will help en...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Farming with Fish By John R. Roby March 29, 2023 at 12:00 am MDT The women took their lettuce seriously. They watched over shreds of mixed greens sized for kid-portion trays. The shreds filled a clear plastic food-grad...
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour SFCC Controlled Environment Agriculture - Open House Open House tour of the CEA Greenhouse at SFCC......
Desert Verde Farm, Andrew Neighbour Vertical Farm Daily - Tue 12 Jul 2022 Feeding communities with New Mexico's first commercial, vertical aquaponics farm Andrew Neighbour, owner of Desert Verde Farm in Santa Fe, has built an aquaponics indoor commercial farm that uses no c...
