Visionary Aquaponics With Maribou Latour

29: Business Incubation Program and MVP with Kieran Foran of Fresh Farm Aquaponics

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Part 3 of my talk with Kieran Foran, co-founder of Fresh Farm Aquaponics in South Glastonbury, Connecticut, whose goal is to teach communities how to feed themselves. Listen as we talk about solids removal, media bed as biofilter, creating a third income stream, and biochar aquaponics and inoculation. We also discuss the business side of aquaponics touching on finding the right business partners, collaborating in business together, how they sell to restaurants, creating contracts and determining deliverables, and moving to a more wholesale model. Discover the importance of joining a business incubation program like the reSET and finding resources you can use for your business. Kieran explains the concept behind minimal viable product (MVP) and identifying an MVP for your aquaponics system. We also talk about how critical customer discovery is as well as building a test system before stepping up your scale. Listen up for more about aquaponically growing niche foods, flowers, and medicinal crops, the challenges