By Sydney Hennighausen<\/a><\/p>\n Sam Fleming\u2019s passion is clear when you meet him. Everything from sporting his non-profit\u2019s T-shirt to the animated arm gestures when he speaks about the aquaponics process shows that teaching and building is what he truly loves. Aquaponics is a closed-loop cycle where fish in tanks produce all the necessary chemicals that plants need. The plants use the chemicals in the water and in return send clean water back to the fish. The two are connected, making water loss low and waste almost nonexistent. Thanks to Fleming\u2019s work over the past eight years, his ambitions are finally coming to fruition with community events like the 2nd Annual Homegrown Tomato Festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n Fleming is one of the co-founders of 100 Gardens<\/a>, a non-profit organization created with the intention to send 100 aquaponic farms overseas to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Working side by side with founder and mentor, Ron Morgan<\/a>, Fleming set out to install gardens in schools to provide a more hands-on learning experience for kids in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) system. The two built a prototype in Morgan\u2019s backyard and the neighborhood kids loved it; they wanted to learn more about how this kind of growing works.<\/p>\n
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