Aquaponics enterprise grows from a youthful hobby into a business
Springworks founder 20-year-old Trevor Kenkel stands near a crop of basil grown using an aquaponics system that operates in a 6,000-square-foot greenhouse. Kenkel, a Glacier High School graduate, has been interested in aquaponics as a sustainable method of agriculture since building his first system at 14.
Glacier High School graduate Trevor Kenkel has bounced back from a series of debilitating concussions that took him off the football field and put him behind five 1,200-gallon fish tanks at his East Coast aquaponics farm, Springworks.
Kenkel, 20, has been interested in sustainable agriculture methods since he was a young teen. When he discovered aquaponics, he was hooked and built his first system in the garage of his family’s Kalispell home when he was 14 years old.
“I started in the garage with a small tank, but the systems kept getting bigger and bigger,” Kenkel said.
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