We made our goal! Thank you to everyone who contributed to INMED’s GlobalGiving campaign to raise $5,000 to kick start our Financing for Climate-Smart Aquaponics in Jamaica project. We not only made our goal but surpassed it by $808.93! Follow this program on our Facebook page, where we’ll profile the farmers participating in the program. The project is scheduled to launch in June.

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Today is the last day of our GlobalGiving campaign to kick start a project to help small farmers, food producers, women and people with disabilities launch their own aquaponics enterprises. Help Tenesha Wallace transform her home aquaponics experiment into a commercial system to general additional income. Help us meet our goal and follow Tenesha as she keeps us updated on her progress. Please donate TODAY! https://goto.gg/27051

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Tanesah Wallace has always loved gardening and decided to combine her passion with her need to generate additional income. Her solution was to start her own home aquaponics farm—with the emphasis on “home.” For the past year, she has been cultivating a home aquaponic system comprising a plastic bin of goldfish and four shelves of vegetable plantings. It has been a labor of love, but it hasn’t been promising as a source of income. That is, until she learned of INMED’s Financing for Aquaponics program in Jamaica. Tanesha recently met with INMED Caribbean Program Director Paul Barrett and INMED Global Partnerships Director Francesca Laursen to enroll in INMED’s adaptive agriculture initiative, which seeks to help budding entrepreneurs like Tanesaha launch aquaponics enterprises.… Read the rest...