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I grew up in Iowa, so Ive spent a fair amount of time around farms. Im well acquainted with tractors, silos, red barns and fields as far as the eye can see. So when I walked into a greenhouse recently for a story I was shooting about a very different type of agricultural production aquaponics I had to pause a bit and just take in the scene.As you walk into Ouroboros Farms, youre greeted by six big nike dunk , round bubbling tanks filled with thousands of fish, which are mostly catfish and a few koi. Beyond the tanks are a series of long jordan troughs covered by hundreds of rafts with all sorts of dark leafy greens sprouting out. Tanks and troughs, fish and plant stanley cup s, are all connected by a complex pipe system. The fish feed the plants, and the plants clean the water for the fish. It was a quite a place: I swear you could hear the plants growing.Ouroboros is one of a few large-scale commercial aquaponics operations in the country. That makes the place fairly unique, but theres another interesting story unfolding under the same roof. A new nonprofit called SchoolGrown is operating an aquaponics classroom right next to the commercial operation.School children on a field trip learn about auquapoincs from SchoolGrown co-founder Sundown Hazen. Photo by SchoolGrownSchoolGrown was started last year by a group of like-minded aquaponics enthusiasts who felt that students werent getting enough hands-on experiences growing food and learning about their connection to the world around them