UrbanPonics

08/21/2024

Hey folks! You have 4 more days to purchase a raffle ticket online before this Saturday's drawing
(https://urbanponics.org/events-2/ ). $10 for 1, $40 for 5.

08/19/2024

Final day at the Middletown Grange Fair : meeting more great people, harvestiing our strawberries, and frying our first fish. Thanks to all who came out to visit. Stay tuned for the results of our raffle drawing!!

08/17/2024

Day 3 at the Middletown Grange Fair. Hydroponic interest drawn from near and far, including these aliens! Join the fun and come visit our exhibit!

08/16/2024

Day 2 at the Middletown Grange Fair . Stop by our exhibit and get a quick education on hydro/aquaponic growing, meet our baby Tilapia, buy a raffle ticket to win a 28 plant Exo Tower hydroponic kit. We look forward to seeing you!!

08/15/2024

Bill's contemplating who he is going to sell the next raffle ticket to.

08/15/2024

Day 1 at the Middletown Grange Fair is attracting lots of curiosity to our exhibit. Come out and say hi - we'll be here until Sunday!

08/14/2024

Newly born tilapia!

08/14/2024

Day 1 at the Middletown Grange Fair ! We're ready

08/09/2024

The calm before the fair - the Middletown Grange Fair, Aug. 14 - 18. The UP team gets those seedlings planted, fattens up the fish, and tidys up the exhibit in anticipation of the thousands of attendees who will pass through.

07/20/2024

Come look at these great EXO Towers here at the Wrightstown Farmers Market here in Newtown, PA

07/20/2024

05/22/2024

We've got these beautiful planter boxes as a donation for fundraising. Take one home and enjoy it along with knowing you have supported UrbanPonics's program initiatives!

05/20/2024

We've got options! Come check out what you can learn with UrbanPonics!

05/06/2024

Busy weekend of UP networking and sales. First - Spring Social Mixer at Chimney Hill/fundraiser for UrbanPonics (thank you Cogent Connections and Hilary Spivak!) and mucho sales of our beautiful wooden planter boxes at the Wrightstown Farmers Market!

04/18/2024

Hun School's elective garden class visited Bucks County Technical High School 's Floral and Landcaping classroom today to view their aquaponic set up. UP educator Merrill Pierce answered all their great questions and a couple BCTHS juniors gave the visiting class a tour of the greenhouse and garden.

04/17/2024

Today at the Hun School, UP introduced the basics of hydroponics to the elective class, "Rad Day - Not Your Typical Garden". Students then went on a scavenger hunt for hidden information about various hydroponic technologies, later we discussed grow media combined with different systems, crop/plant options, and ended with the students designing their own hydroponic gardens and presented them to the class. An awesome day! Stay tuned for day 2 at Hun.

04/04/2024

This week, connecting with PA legislators and spreading our UP message and mission of educating on hydro/aquaponic benefits: job opportunities in vertical growing, contributing to economic development and transforming the way we acquire our food. Here, UP founder Webb Stone introduces himself to State Senator Frank Farry and St. Rep Kristin Marcell at a news conference regarding work choice rights of individuals with disabilities. UP advisor Jay Belding hosted the event at Associated Production Services where he is executive director.

03/28/2024

The search is on for a permanent UP home. The team takes a look at an old warehouse built in 1850. Lots of space and natural light but needs A LOT of work...

03/09/2024

Meet Chris Nelson, a sophomore at Bucks County Technical High School. He's our go-to maintenance person on the aquaponics unit in the Floral and Landscape Department this year. Here, he assists Web, UP founder, in locating a leak and switching out a pipe earlier this week - getting ready for planting this spring's crop.

01/20/2024

New season at Bucks County Technical High School. Setting up the tanks, planting new seedlings - it's going to be a great year!

11/20/2023

Got a nice share/mention at Bucks Co. Today - an online publication. Spreading our message far and wide!
https://bucksco.today/2023/11/wrightstown-urbanponics/?cat=agriculture&utm_source=BUCKSCO.Today&utm_campaign=08ac4a88c9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_58c6775b9e-08ac4a88c9-275742319

11/13/2023

We made the front page today!!

https://buckscountyherald.com/stories/at-wrightstown-nonprofit-urbanponics-farmers-go-vertical-with-aquaponics-hydroponics,28754?fbclid=IwAR2cEyHEaRLp9Sw034_Nzw9__mZc7ojTksvoNMAjlnX0mXK9kf15dHVX4XA

10/20/2023

Enlightening the residents of Pine Run Retirement Village about hydroponic growing at their Octoberfest event. Our ZipGarden unit made quite an impression! This small hydroponic system can grow an abundant harvest of many leafy greens and herbs in a small space - perfect to display near the dining commons of this community.

10/06/2023

Barbara's quiche this morning. Made with UP bok choi and jalapenos!

10/05/2023

George School's Applied Technology and Botany class visited UP yesterday to get an education about the full spectrum of aquaponic and hydroponic growing systems and engaged in a lively discussion about new-world agri business and food sustainability.

09/25/2023

This documentary explores the controversies in the U.S. food industry.
Powerful eye-opener about where our green leafy vegetables come from
and the associated dangers of foodborne pathogens.

1h 23m | TV-14

09/22/2023

This year's senior class in the Bucks County Technical High School landscape and floral Department tours UP's exhibit at the Grange, inspiring them to continue to develop their school's hydro/aquaponic curriculum that we helped create last year.

09/16/2023

Lots happening at the grange today: Our Saturday UP weekly round up meeting, discussing strategy, upcoming events, etc. Meanwhile, Wrightstown Farmers Market on one side and the car show on the other, bringing in lots of visitors to our exhibit.

08/27/2023

Yesterday Terry Ezo came to the grange to officially accept her grand prize winning of a ZipGrow cabinet. Congratulations Terry!!

08/26/2023

At-Home Hydroponics: Disneyworld installs ZipGrow Hydroponic System in Living with the Land Attraction at EPCOT
https://blogmickey.com/2023/07/at-home-hydroponics-disney-world-installs-zipgrow-hydroponic-system-in-living-with-the-land-attraction-at-epcot/ #:~:text=In%20the%20second%20half%20of,to%20explore%20%E2%80%9Cinnovative%20projects%E2%80%9D.