As Springworks Farm celebrates 10 years in business this year, head grower Brady Sinclair is notching his first year at the unique greenhouse collective, which is about to add a 120,000-square-foot greenhouse.
Sinclair comes to the farm with more than 15 years of experience working in commercial greenhouses in Madison, Maine and Texas, where, of course, they do most things on a grand scale.
Sinclair and his wife, Sarah, are Mainers. He moved away as a young child to Wisconsin with his family but returned to Maine at age 19. His wife served in the U.S. Navy in Hawaii, Japan, and Qatar before returning to civilian life. They have two teenage daughters.
Springworks Farm uses a relatively simple concept of farming that is catching on like wildfire — aquaponics. It's the process of growing plants and raising fish in a symbiotic environment, where fish waste provides nutrients for the plants, and the plants, in turn, keep water clean for the fish.
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