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Welcome to the New Face of Farming!
Self-reliance...the power of entrepreneurship....collaboration...building the local economy by growing good food and good jobs. These values are the foundation of Green Bridge Growers (GBG), a...
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The Power of Community
What an abundance of resources and potential collaborations we have in our region! The South Bend community is making its mark as a place where initiatives in sustainability and entrepreneurship are...
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Re-Charging and Re-Energizing at ND's Start-Up Weekend
What fantastic energy there was tonight at Start-Up Weekend ND! This evening's kick-off gave budding entrepreneurs the chance to pitch their ideas to an audience, lobby for votes, and form teams...
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Autism Awareness = Autism Action
"...I must refuse to insult the naked by giving them clothes they do not need instead of giving them work which they sorely need." (Mahatma Gandhi, 10/13/21)April is Autism Awareness Month, and we're...
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Something's Fishy!
We've been out on some fishy business lately. We had a great visit at Queen of Peace Parish and School in Mishawaka. We heard they had an aquaponics greenhouse up and running, and they extended...
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We Did It!
Celebratory Team Hug after our 1st presentation at McCloskey Competition!Months of hard work for our team paid off last Friday when we learned we'd been awarded the Klau Family Greatest Social Impact...
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A Week's Worth of Work, Play, and...Pie!
We've had a full, busy week. One of the items on our agenda was the Indiana Poverty Summit at Notre Dame's Center for Social Concerns, where the problem of poverty here in the state was examined in a...
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Food's Future
A highlight for us this past week was participating in a conference at Notre Dame sponsored by the University's Nanovic Institute on "The Future of Food." Representatives from the European Union and...
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From the Ground Up
We've been on the grow lately - diving into the construction of our venture's first structure , an aquaponics prototype built in collaboration with Hannah and Friends, a terrific agency here in South...
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A Heart for Service
Lauren jumping right in and doing aquaponic training last weekendGreen Bridge Growers is excited to bring on board our summer intern, Lauren Jessup, who graduated from Notre Dame last month with a...
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To The Dairy State and Back!
We were just up in Wisconsin recently for more learning and training with our friends at Growing Power in Milwaukee. Several of our team participated in their aquaponics workshop, an intensive...
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Building Hope - and a Greenhouse
A lot of hands-on building for Green Bridge Growers lately - on our greenhouse, and in building partnerships and connections in the community. In addition to our handy work with hammer and drill,...
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Teamwork - It's Brilliant!
Here Come the Irish! Green Bridge Team members Conor, Shane, Tom, and Anthony w/Shane McQuillan, poolside, display the humor and spark for which they're well-known!!Our venture has been quite fortunate...
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It's been great being part of the building of our first aquaponics greenhouse! There was lots of teamwork involved, many hours of hard work, and determination to see it finished. We had to be very...
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Learning By Doing
We've been working with our Hannah and Friends partners almost weekly in the past month - Lauren, Chris, and Jan have worked with residents and day program participants to teach some of the important...
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A Fish Out of Water, aka Fishless Cycling
We've built our greenhouse and put in the plumbing, grow beds and fish tanks for our aquaponic system - now, what's next?"FISH" and "PLANTS" you might say!! And of course you'd be right! But first,...
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Troubleshooting Our System: Algae Alert!
We've been checking and rechecking our system at Hannah and Friends every day. You'll find us there with test tubes in hand, test strips at the ready, to see what the latest readings are for pH,...
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Last week we had our first round of planting for our aquaponic system at the Hannah and Friends greenhouse. Thanks to Katie Teitgen, H&F's Director of Operations, for serving as photographer for...
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