VIU researcher hopes technology can be adapted to create food security for remote communities
By using the waste of Koi fish to grow fresh produce, Vancouver Island University engineering student Jayden Corbeil is hoping to improve food supply issues in remote communities with an open-source aquaponics project.
“The big goal is to remove reliance on external suppliers,” said Corbeil, the 2019 Alberni District Secondary School Valedictorian. “Particularly among First Nations communities there is a lot of negative connotations with the idea of farming fish, so for now I’m trying to avoid having any fish for harvest purposes,” said the 23-year-old.
Farmer Noah Bond says they harvest around 50 pounds of lettuce in a week, which they sell at the Jollity market and at their cafe in Chemainus.“I think it’s sustainable. Just like anything, you need someone to be aware of what’s going on and be there to check things. I check it twice a day. I don’t have to do too much you know a session here and there with planting, but after that the upkeep is pretty easy,” said farmer Bond.“They’re like my buddies.
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