The goal of the When Blue is Green: Sustainable Blue Food Systems Driven by Integrated Aquaponics research is to increase local and regional production of adequate, nutritious, and affordable blue foods with a minimal environmental footprint to ultimately diversify U.S. agricultural systems and dietary patterns. Aquaponics combines hydroponics and recirculating aquaculture systems to grow aquatic animals and plants in a system linked by water flows and nutrient exchanges. This work is being supported by a $10M grant from the USDA National Inst of Food & Agriculture. To learn more, visit our homepage and tabs "What are Blue Foods?" and "Our Zero-Waste Aquaponics"!

Eleven educational activities were written to align with the research with a goal of fostering a workforce prepared to support the blue food supply chain. The activities are transdisciplinary as they are based upon the work the researchers are preforming. Consequently, teachers may only find that two or three activities they wish to use in their classroom, unless they are actually studying aquaponics.