Producer

FarmWild is Washington’s largest aquaponics farm and one of the only indoor aquaponics farms in the nation. We are a family farm dedicated to regenerative and sustainable agriculture, striving to create a clean environment, healthy people, and a better world. Our new urban farm in Bellingham is a state of the art indoor CEA (controlled environment agriculture) vertical farm facility. Our produce is beautiful, tasty, and fresh twelve months a year. Even our lush green basil is ready for harvest every week of the year, whether it’s Summer Solstice or New Year’s Day.

We Strive to use the most innovative and effective practices to produce food, while having minimal impact on the land, allowing natural, wild places to stay wild. In our urban aquaponic facility, we grow plants and fish together in a symbiotic relationship. We feed the fish, and the fish waste, dissolved in water provides the nutrients that the plants use to grow. As the plants absorb these nutrients, they filter and purify the water before sending it back to the fish, fresh and clean. The cycle continues-fish provide nutrients, plants purify water. The lush basil, lettuce, cilantro, kale, chard, etc that grow in our system are in fact, just a tasty biological byproduct of naturally filtering the water for 500 beautiful koi. Aquaponics is the most water-efficient method of growing crops, using 90-95% less water than traditional agriculture. The only water used in the system, is the water taken in by the plants to fuel growth. Because the water is rich with organic nutrients and the growing conditions are optimized in our growing facilities, plants grow extremely fast at FarmWild. Our indoor vertical farm grow 10-20 times more produce than could be grown on the equivalent footprint of fertile soil and we are located in the heart of the city. Our 3000 sq ft of grow space provide as much produce each year as could be grown on about 2 acres of fertile farmland. We never use herbicides or pesticides of any kind in our operation. Nothing is ever sprayed on the plant. We are not certified organic, but our produce is the cleanest, most sustainable produce out there.