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Integrating sh and vegetables with the

built environment will create a new urban

agricultural economy.

 AquaPlanet is a multidisciplinary team promoting sustainable food

economies, with strategic planning, design and communications. We

enable new growers, starting small.

Economic and environmental trends have required that we rethink how we feed ourselves.

New models of food production for high density urban areas are being developed that involve

rooftop gardening and aquaponics. These projects are making progress. Financial viability willikely be proven on a commercial scale in the near future. At that point investment capital for 

expansion will become available.

AquaPlanet promotes aquaponics and related systems to communities and organizations

seeking a point of entry with the technology. The team’s expertise covers design, engineering

communications and business development. Workshops are being planned in the Raleigh,

NC area to introduce small local growers to the near-term market opportunities for produce

and sh.

Aquaponics has been developing as a technology since the early seventies. Its form was

conceived by Jack and Nancy Todd of the New Alchemy Institute. Today, island nations,

such as Barbados, Hawaii and Australia have been able to integrate the system into the

mainstream, with several full-time operations running continuously. The growth continues in

Milwaukee with Growing Power, a nonprot, and Sweet Water Organics, the rst large scale

commercial operation that is getting consistent mainstream media coverage.

AquaPlanet brings the technology to the local level to train and enable new growers, with a

strategic approach to t the community. A one hundred gallon sh tank and one hundred

square feet of grow space can produce an amazing amount of sh and vegetables over ayears’ time. Scaling upward becomes easier once a grower is experienced.

 The AquaPlanet expertise and vision also includes the large scale. Partner  Wayne Dorband ,

with a PhD in aquaculture and decades of experience in industrial site reclamation (in fact 

he helped invent it), has numerous sites across the US, with ambitious plans for converting 

factories into growing operations with his rm, WorldWide Aquaculture . Clearly, the stage is

set for advancing the next level of sustainable urban design.

 Aquatectural vision.

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Buying In

We work with key community stakeholders, both growers and buyers to plan a roll out of the

concepts and technology of aquaponics.

We offer various means to access aquaponics for every budget:

 The Aquaponics Guidebook, written by AquaPlanet partner Bevan Suits is a comprehensive

introduction to the way of growing sh and vegetables. Do-it-yourselfers will be able to piece

together their own systems with available materials, once they are clear on the concepts.

 Workshops : AquaPlanet is prepared to present workshops on aquaponics. The best approach

to a workshop is to invite participants to an active installation.

Consultation : With AquaPlanet you are accessing the knowledge base of experienced

professionals in a range of related elds.

Small Installations : For high-end residential yards and patio settings, as well as smaller 

commercial systems for restaurants and stores. This type of project starts at $5000 and includes

design/build/install plus consultation for up to two months.

 Aquatecture : For serious commercial developers, our partner Dr. Wayne Dorband has thescientic and real estate credentials to convert facilities into commercial growing operations.

Other Media : AquaPlanet is developing online video training with partner Travis Hughey.

Broadcast TV programming is in discussion.

 Who We Are

Bevan Suits, Team Leader, Decatur, GA : BFA Minneapolis College of Art & Design Industrial Designer, Writer 

and Entrepreneur; Author of The Aquaponics Guidebook

Dr. Wayne Dorband, Loveland, CO : PhD Fisheries, 35 Years Experience with Aquaculture & Sustainable

Growing Systems; Serial entrepreneur, helped create what we now call browneld development. Several research

initiatives in progress at various sites in Colorado. Consulting rm WorldWide Aquaculture

 Travis Hughey, Andrews, Andrews, SC : Inventor of “barrelponics”, 25 years experience as a boat mechanic,

in demand worldwide to train aquaponics, founder of Faith & Sustainable Technology.

Brian Naess, Chapel Hill, NC : Aquaponics innovator, MS in Environmental Management & Policy, UNC Chapel

Hill; Instructor at UNC in Coral Reef Ecology.

Evan Folds, Wilmington, NC : BS Biology, UNC Wilmington, Owner of Progressive Gardens, a retail hydroponics

and biodynamic lawn services company; He is a frequent contributor to national publications on the topic of organic

grow systems.

Clegg Roberts, Savannah, GA : Many years experience as a commercial real estate broker and developer.

Committed to helping introduce aquaponics in the Savannah area. Currently a program director for Savannah Public

School’s Oatland Island Education Center.

Contact 

Bevan Suits

404-421-1894

www.aquaplanetonline.com

 AquaPlanet is

 about education,

engineering and 

creative strategies.