The ultimate link between hands-on learning and environmental stewardship

Forging connections between education, food, and the environment through aquaponics

Join Us for the Homegrown Tomato Festival - July 23rd
The Homegrown Tomato Festival is an annual fundraising event benefiting 100 Gardens, a Charlotte, NC based non-profit that implements aquaponics farming in schools, institutions and communities of need to provide hands-on learning in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), with additional emphasis on nutrition and business. 
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100 Gardens provides exciting and engaging learning opportunities by implementing aquaponics programs in schools, institutions, and communities in need.
Research shows that, by 2050, today’s youth will have less freshwater and face the total depletion of major seafood species, all while having a couple billion more humans on the planet to feed. If we want to leave the world a better place for the youth of today, we have to change the way we think.

Our Aquaponics Learning Labs provide communities with the ultimate link between hands-on learning and environmental stewardship

Our K-8 and high school curriculum intersect the operation of the aquaponics system with North Carolina Education Standards for science, technology, engineering and math programs (STEM) and several Career and Technical Education (CTE). Aquaponics encourages students to learn in an exciting and hands-on way while also teaching them valuable skills.
Unforgettable Skills and Experiences in
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Math
Science
Nutrition
Business/
Marketing
Entrepreneurship
Agriculture
Biology
Culinary
Economics
Engineering

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22
Gardens Built
800
+Students Impacted
2000
+Pounds of Fish
70000
+Servings of
 Vegetables
6
Charities Supported

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Aquaponics Vertical Farm Tour - August 6, 2022

GET TICKETS Tour our aquaponics vertical farm and learn about growing your own fresh fish and veggies in a symbiotic ecosystem! Learn about how aquaponics can help protect our coeans, conserve our freshwater resources, and feed a growing population! You will also get a sneak peak at the other circular economy businesses at the Innovation […]

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Shreds and Shrooms - Aug 13th, 2022

GET TICKETS Shreds and Shrooms is the ULTIMATE family activity! This immersive 2-hour experience starts with hands-on activites in the 100 Gardens Aquaponics Lab and MUSH! mushroom farm. Then, you will cook ingredients grown on-site at the Innovation Barn to make the fabulous "Philly, Not Really" mushroom "cheesteak" with a fresh side salad. The cooking […]

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House of Correction's Aquaponics Lab Feeding Needy, Improving Skills

  PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire County House of Correction has had something fishy going on for awhile now.    Community leaders and others got a chance on Wednesday to tour an inmate-run greenhouse that takes hydroponics — growing plants in a nutrient solution — to another level of sustainability by using fish waste as […]

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“I’ve been incarcerated for a long time and have had issues in the past. This is very fulfilling to me to have an opportunity to learn something new. It’s an awesome feeling to have that feeling of accomplishment and I’m grateful for it.”

- Shaun D. Inmate at Berkshire County House of Corrections.

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Forging connections between education, food, and the environment through aquaponics

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PO Box 221831
Charlotte, NC 28222
Sam Fleming
Executive Director
sam@100gardens.org

100 Gardens

Preparing Our Children For The Future & Saving Our Environment For Them

RESOURCES

CONTACT

PO Box 221831
Charlotte, NC 28222
Sam Fleming
Executive Director
sam@100gardens.org
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