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NORTH YARMOUTH, Maine — Fluid Farms is taking its development of aquaponics — the emerging practice of combining fish tanks with water-based vegetable gardens — to the next level.

The nascent two-man company has in two summers outgrown a 500-square-foot greenhouse attached to the craft-brewing Urban Farm Fermentory in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood, which co-founder and fisheries biologist Tyler Gaudet called a “backyard-scale” operation. Now, Fluid Farms is beginning to clear a site in North Yarmouth for a 25,000-square-foot version, a building they believe will be Maine’s first commercial-scale aquaponics facility.

“We’re the only ones selling aquaponic produce commercially,” co-founder Jackson Mcleod said. “There are some other people experimenting with aquaponics in the state, but we haven’t found anybody else who is going to market.”

Fluid Farms will continue at its new site to grow both culinary herbs — collard greens, kale, arugula and several different forms of lettuce — and tilapia, a versatile white fish popular among chefs. But Gaudet and Mcleod said with the extra space, they’ll be able to experiment with a greater variety of vegetable products in addition to the reliable fish.
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