Marine Education Initiative: Farming with - and for - future generations

The Marine Education Initiative educates the next generation on sustainable agriculture while combating food insecurity across South Florida. They bring in students to the aquaponics center for field trips, and adults for volunteer workshops, explaining how the center works and why aquaponics is important for the community and environment.
The tour for students and volunteers continues into a separate area where a contained system is growing produce - vertically.
“Microgreens are a much more nutrient-dense product than other crops because we’re able to harvest in the first few weeks of the life of the plant,” explains founder Nicholas Metropulos. Microgreens are also extremely nutritious. “It gets to the end consumer faster. And we don’t have the fertilizer pollution associated with traditional farms.” Traditional farming includes runoff from fertilizer put into the water, which can then seep into waterways.
This is the HyperLocal Farms side, where about 40% of the produce in the 480 trays gets donated and the rest is sold to restaurants and supermarkets mostly in the Miami area.

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Wow great video! Who did the editing? It's so seamless and perfectly paced!