During the Open House last week, I visited the Mississauga Food Bank facility and got a tour of the fish/farm operation in the building.

There are big tanks of rapidly growing fish, and the waste water from the fish goes through a bacterial digestion process and then nourishes the lettuce/bok choy crop right beside the tanks.

After the plants draw all the nutrients out of the water, it’s back to the fish! And the cycle continues until the lettuce and the fish are harvested for the food bank.

It’s important that people see new technology like this which can give local communities some food security. We’ve given a grant to the MFB for their 2019 public education program and we hope that this is a jumping off point for more groups to expand this initiative.