Food System Lab @ Cylburn

For seven years, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future operated the Food System Lab @ Cylburn, an urban teaching farm  at Cylburn Arboretum in Baltimore City. . The Food System Lab demonstrated the important connections among the living components of a small-scale agro-ecosystem and provided a compelling introduction to an equitable, healthy and sustainable food system. Visitors were able to engage directly with a variety of food production practices, including aquaponics, a system of agriculture that combines fish farming with hydroponic plant farming.

CLF’s Aquaponics Research:

• Energy and Water Use in a Small-Scale Raft Aquaponics System in Baltimore, MD, USA
• Commercial Aquaponics Production and Profitability: Findings from an International Survey
• An International Survey of Aquaponics Practitioners
• Fish in the Classroom: A survey of the use of Aquaponics in Education
• Production and consumption of home grown produce and fish by non-commercial aquaponics gardeners