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Aquaponics warehouse set to open store soon in La Crosse
Good Greens Aquaponics already
sells to local restaurants
Some of your favorite area restaurants are serving vegetables and fish grown fresh every day, from a warehouse in the La Crosse industrial park.
Good Greens Aquaponics produces tilapia and lettuce indoors, all year long.
Workers with disabilities are finding new jobs there through its parent company, ORC Industries. They’re helping to produce fish and veggies for homes, stores and restaurants.
“We just started training them on the process of transplanting plants, feeding fish, packaging, harvesting,” Facilities manager Eric Carlson said.
Good Greens uses indoor fish tanks to produce tilapia and a grow-light system for lettuce, tomatoes and other plants.
Some of the harvest is sent to group homes and community food banks.
The companny will soon open a public store offering fresh fish and produce grown indoors all year.
Carlson says the indoor operation recycles all the water used in the fish tanks for growing the plants.