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US (CO): Podcast About The Park County Farm To School Aquaponics Program

In this podcast, Al Kurki, an agriculture specialist at NCAT’s Rocky Mountain West Regional Office in Butte, Montana, has a conversation with Rachel Jones, Executive Director of Farm to School of Park County.

With a USDA Farm to School grant, Rachel turned one of the school’s greenhouses into an aquaponics laboratory.

Middle- and high-school students of Park County now raise trout and vegetables for food for their schools. In this episode, you’ll hear about the challenges and triumphs using an aquaponics system in a school setting.

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