There’s a new location for an educational, indoor farm in downtown Weirton. A 10,000-square-foot space is the new home for Blue Stream Farms, and once it's transformed, it will be a place for education, business and community connection opportunities.
Students will be welcomed from all over the tri-state area to enjoy a unique hands-on learning experience.
David and Linda Payne donated it to Blue Stream Farms. “Blue Stream Farms is an aquaponics-based program that allows the students to have project-based learning, so they'll be able to learn in the classroom and come to Blue Stream Farms to apply what they've learned,” Blue Stream Farms CEO Dan Spickard said.
“Not only do they learn it reading about it, they're able to enhance their education and it becomes embedded into their body of knowledge moving forward,” said Doug Velegol, executive director, Blue Stream Farms.
That experience is now taking place in the basement of Sacred Heart of Mary in Weirton, where herbs and microgreens are grown in water that uses nutrients from tilapia on site. Blue stream farms just launched a campaign to raise $100,000 to complete renovations at its new site.
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