Become a sustainer of 100 Gardens! We have a goal of raising $2,000 in recurring donations to hire a part-time site coordinator for our 10 schools partners. You can help deliver exciting aquaponics learning for thousands of students in your local schools.
Our Mission: Provide exciting and engaged learning opportunities by implementing aquaponics programs in schools, institutions and in communities of need.
You can support 100 Gardens by making a financial gift or participating in one of these events between November 20th-27th.
Sam Fleming, President of 100 Gardens describes the power of aquaponics as a tool for changing the way we think about learning, food and the environment at the 2017 TEDxCharlotte event.
We have the tools to transform a generation of people into smarter, healthier, and more compassionate people...and this is a necessary step to ensure the sustainability of the human species and the planet as we know it...we ask you to share this video if it resonates with you...thanks.
Big thanks to the 600+ people who attended and/or helped organize and promote the 1st Annual Homegrown Tomato Festival! The turnout blew away our expectations! See you next year!
“We grow edible freshwater fish like tilapia and catfish and then we send the water from those tanks into hydroponic systems that grow plants without soil,” Fleming said. “So the fish are fertilizing plants, and then the plants filter out the water and return clean water back to the fish. So you’re growing vegetables and fish and it doesn’t require any soil.”
What does this have to do with beer? Fleming and Sassman began to discuss having 100 Gardens grow the thyme used in Doin’ Thyme. It seemed a perfect partnership, since the brewery had wanted to start using locally-grown thyme in the beer.
Webb St. School, a special needs school in Gastonia, NC has partnered with 100 Gardens to expand their highly productive in-ground gardens to a new aquaponics greenhouse! Read the full story here.
“The kids are growing with a purpose,” Juli Metcalf said in a press release. “They are able to create economic value and it gives them the opportunity to know what they are learning is real and that it can be applied in a real way.” Read more...
“He was a really inspiring guy, sort of Steve Jobs-like in his obsession with his work,” said Sam Fleming, vice-president of 100 Gardens. But unlike Jobs, Fleming said Morgan didn’t have sharp edges. “He really pushed people to take a step further than they knew they had in them, and he did it in the nicest way possible.”
Charitable contributions can be sent to:
101 Gardens
200 E 36th Street
Charlotte, NC 28206
101 Gardens is an exempt organization as described in Section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code; EIN 81-0707631.
All or part of your gift may be tax deductible as a charitable
contribution. Please check with your tax advisor
When Janice Wood began working as part of the culinary team at Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center in Concord, NC this past year, she figured her days would be spent prepping meals for the 100 students. In fact, she never would have guessed that in just a short year, she would earn USDA Best Practice Award for Child Nutrition, nor did she predict that the one acre vegetable garden and aquaponics system implemented by 100 Gardens would play such a significant role in her kitchen. Read more...
Thank you PBS Charlotte for spotlighting students having a great time learning using aquaponics at South Iredell High School in Troutman, NC!
