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US (TX): Community college teaches chefs aquaponics

It is not unusual to find tilapia accompanied by basil pesto, cherry tomatoes and lettuce on the menu at Thirteen09 Restaurant on the campus of El Paso Community College.

What could surprise diners is one day, very soon, all these ingredients will be raised in a lab at the college's Viscount campus.

El Paso Community College Culinary Arts Department unveiled it's GREEN Advantage Project, a greenhouse that is housing an aquaponics system.



"I don't know of any other culinary program that has a program like this in the country," said chef Daniel Guerra, coordinator of the Culinary Arts Department at El Paso Community College. "We received the grant in 2013, from what we know, nobody had one at that time and we still haven't seen one used for a culinary program."

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