A Utah County startup is building 'modular farms' that they say waste very little water and double as a trout farm. From a tower system to the container you'd see at the grocery store, the folks at Future Fresh Farms say they do it while keeping more than 90 percent of their water inside this closed-loop system.
It begins with the fish. Thousands of trout inside these huge 2-thousand gallon tanks. They are living inside the water supply for the farm. Sean Burrows is the CEO and founder of Future Fresh Farms. It all started as a family hobby.
"It's a really small footprint and you can put it anywhere," Burrows said. "My father and I, about ten years ago, were doing something similar to this in our backyard."
But they refined it over and over, adding the trout to make an aquaponic system. Now they're building and selling the system in what they call farmtainers.
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