Harvest of the Month
June
Leafy Greens!
There are over 100 varieties of lettuce!
Most are rich in folic acid (vitamin B9)
You can cook leafy greens or eat them raw!
Generally, leafy greens that are darker in color will have more nutrients than those that are light in color.
Salad mix on an elementary school salad bar
Lettuce in the Boyd St. Community Garden
Seedlings at Hurricane Valley Farm including a variety of romaine lettuce called "red rosie."
Linga Linga (amaranth greens) in the Boyd St. Community garden.
Mustard Greens
Red Leaf Lettuce
Spinach
Bok Choy
Arugula
Romaine Lettuce
Recipes
Combine everything in a jar with a lid and shake!
Springworks
Lisbon, Maine
What is Aquaponics?
The easiest way to sum up aquaponics is, “fish and plants working together to help each other grow in a natural ecosystem where water circulates in an endless loop”.- Springworks
Facts about Springworks and Aquaponics
WE USE NO PESTICIDES IN OUR ORGANIC GREENHOUSE
Thanks to our proprietary aquaponics technology and the precise control we have over all of the growing conditions, we don’t have the same pest problems that other greenhouses do.
AQUAPONICS IS 90-95% MORE WATER EFFICIENT THAN CONVENTIONAL FARMING
With aquaponics, once water is pumped into our facility, it never leaves. It is continuously fortified with nutrients by our fish and filtered by our plants over and over again. That means no constant need for irrigation and no run-off into lakes, streams or rivers.
OUR PROPRIETARY AQUAPONICS SYSTEM IS 20 TIMES MORE PRODUCTIVE THAN CONVENTIONAL FARMING.
At Springworks, we continuously upgrade our aquaponics system and fine tune our growing techniques to maximize efficiency. This enables us to supply large supermarket chains like Hannaford and Whole Foods as well as dozens of independent retailers and food service organizations in a fairly small growing space – just half an acre.
These fish create the fertilizer for the lettuce. Every week, fish are harvested and sold to Harbor Fish Market in Portland for us to buy and eat!
Lisbon, Maine*
40 Minutes from Portland
*photo from Portland Press Herald