Greengro Technologies Acquires The Waters Wheel
September 11 2013 - 8:15AM
Marketwired
Greengro Technologies, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GRNH), a world class
provider of eco-friendly green technologies, has completed its
acquisition of 49 percent of The Waters Wheel, Hollywood, Calif., a
firm that specializes in recirculating water urban farming --
systems, such as Aquaponics, that use water in place of soil to
grow food.
In August, 2013, Rafael O. Quezada, founder and CEO of The
Waters Wheel, was named Aquaponics Manager for BP Gardens, LLC,
Buena Park, Calif. BP Gardens specializes in controlled environment
agriculture (CEA) solutions.
"The Waters Wheel complements our work in the CEA market," said
James Haas, CEO of GreenGro Technologies. "Together with Rafael, we
plan to farm inner cities, where past attempts have often failed to
meet needs, and where fresh foods nutrition is lacking, resulting
in poor health among community residents."
Said Quezada: "We are very happy to be joining with Greengro.
Together, we're one of the few companies dedicated to using
aquaponics in child and adolescent education, especially in the
inner city, to light a transformational path to a universally
prosperous future... a way out of an increasingly problematic
present."
The Waters Wheel
Quezada, an innovator, artist and builder, provides construction
and technology expertise on Greengro Technologies projects.
The Waters Wheel systems use water in place of soil (or soil
developed from aquaculture and specialized media). Besides
accelerating growth of densely concentrated crops and making better
tasting produce, recirculating water agriculture conserves as much
as 95 percent of the water otherwise needed to farm in soil.
Previous projects undertaken by The Waters Wheel include a
for-profit enterprise that involved the development of one
aeroponic farm at Hollygrove Market and Farm and the first
rooftop-supermarket farm at Rouses Market, both projects in New
Orleans, La. The company introduced the first recirculating farm to
the city in collaboration with Aquaponic Modular Production Systems
(AMPS).
The first collaborative school project between Greengro and The
Waters Wheel will break ground October 17, 2013, in South Central
Los Angeles. A seedling nursery and recirculating water farm will
be implemented for the new City of Youth Charter School, located in
a Los Angeles "food desert" on South Central Avenue. A new solar
parking lot will provide off-grid power for all farming operations.
Greengro Technologies is providing funds for the startup and will
help equip the facilities with Greengro products.
City of Youth, under the leadership of program director David
Durand, has plans to replicate the project at multiple locations,
bringing fresh foods and a much needed agriculture economy to the
urban community. School curricula will include aquaponics, a food
production system that combines conventional aquaculture (fish
farming in a tank) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water)
in a symbiotic environment.
"For projects like the City of Youth academy, our operating
principle is, 'If you feed people a fish, they will eat for a day,"
said Haas. "If you teach them how to grow healthy produce with
tanks full of edible fish, a whole economy will generate from their
hands, empowered.'"
The Waters Wheel is dedicated to transforming the next
generation of children with Earth-centric curricula that uses
recirculating water farming techniques to teach the "3-Rs" while,
at the same time, improving local access to pure, organic
nutrition.
About Greengro Technologies
Greengro Technologies is a national leader in both indoor and
outdoor aquaponic and hydroponic systems and grow rooms, with
specific domain expertise in agricultural science systems serving
both the consumer and commercial farming markets. The company's
customers include restaurants, community gardens, and small- and
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