Dachnik Aquaponics, an Aquaponics Technology company founded in Utah, spent the entire summer renovating their Vertical Growing Commercial Aquaponics Facility located in Copperton, Utah.  

Their previous design, consisting of Bamboo vertical growing towers, created a lot of attention and buzz in the community; including videos by top YouTube Organic Food channel “Growing Your Greens” which has currently received over 273,000 views explaining the system and its unique design in detail.

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Dachnik Aquaponics was barely able to keep up with email inquiries and phone calls for months when the system went live and was revealed to the world.

However, the bamboo towers while looked gorgeous; were not viable for a large-scale commercial operation. They did not have the durability needed to last long-term and were extremely high maintenance.

With every new system Dachnik Aquaponics builds, new ideas come along that help solve potential problems and how to make it better. Their goal is to never idlily standby any design, but to always keep improving it for maximum efficiency in order to keep raising the bar in Aquaponics.

“Most of the media attention, buzz and money is currently flowing towards Hydroponics. However, we feel like Aquaponics provides the full spectrum needed for sustainable agriculture but has remained quite stagnant over the years without any substantial, disruptive developments in order to solve the problems all commercial Aquaponics farms face that make it unattractive to farmers and investors and hinder profitability. Our next generation design solves the issues plaguing Aquaponics by creating a one-of-a-kind biofilter, massively increased plant yield per SqFt, and effectively eliminating most labor requirements.”

Sean Burrows, Co-Founder, Dachnik Aquaponics

Fast forward to where we are now. We have built a complete proof of concept and working farm about a 1/6th scale of the commercial farms we envision our next projects to be. Our automated vertical Aquaponics systems are simpler to operate and provide the most grow holes per square foot of any other Aquaponics system to date. Thanks to our new patented vertical growing tower consisting of 48 grow holes per tower as well as our “stackable” float bed design.

We can produce as many plants in 10,000 square feet as 36 acres in California. Based on 15,000 plants per acre and 4 harvests per year. Attached to the Aquaponics greenhouse is the fish and production/storage building where we expect the five 18,000-gallon fish tanks to produce up to 100,000lbs of fish per year, as well as Australian Redclaw and other Crayfish. We are forming alliances with state-of-the-art greenhouse designs and solar to create completely off grid systems with a very attractive return on investment.

Our Aquaponics growing system is quite simply the ultimate bio filter. We set out to create a system that works in harmony with nature and yes, we kept the media and worms.

Looking five years down the road, Dachnik Aquaponics sees itself as the leader in Aquaponics technology with large fully automated commercial systems built worldwide. We want to be adding billions of dollars into the economies where our systems are built. Dachnik Aquaponics is also planning on selling smaller “residential” sized systems as well based off their commercial designs.

Here’s the latest video update from Dachnik Aquaponics showing their new and improved design after the renovation of their previous one:

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Their current model is now selling fresh produce within Salt Lake County to restaurants, markets, caterers along with a monthly membership direct to consumer model.

Dachnik Aquaponics is currently taking orders for commercial sized farms.

Here’s a link to their website to learn more