Started With Tanks. Building an Industry.

Tech Farm started in Southern Florida with a straightforward question: why is the United States — the world's largest economy — importing 95% of one of the most consumed fish on the planet? Tilapia is the third most farmed fish globally, eaten by hundreds of millions of people. Yet American consumers were almost entirely dependent on frozen product shipped from China, Indonesia, and Central America. The supply chain was long, the freshness was compromised, and billions of dollars were flowing out of the country every year.

We set out to change that. Starting in Clewiston — a small agricultural town on the southern shore of Lake Okeechobee — we built our first farm using Recirculating Aquaculture Systems. RAS technology allowed us to raise tilapia in clean, controlled water that gets filtered and reused continuously, producing fish year-round with no dependence on weather, seasons, or natural water bodies. The system uses 90% less water than conventional agriculture and discharges nothing into the environment.

The early years were about learning — testing feed conversion ratios, dialing in water chemistry, figuring out how to grow tilapia to market size as efficiently as possible. We grew from a single location to three farms across Southern Florida. We expanded from dozens of tanks to over 88. We moved from small-batch output to one of the largest tilapia operations in the country.

Today, Tech Farm is the 2nd largest tilapia farm in the United States. But scale was never the end goal — it was a necessary step toward something bigger. We're building the operational knowledge, the production data, and the technology infrastructure that the entire domestic tilapia industry needs in order to grow. We test so that other farmers don't have to start from scratch. We publish what we learn. And we're investing in AI-driven monitoring, solar energy, and waste-to-value systems that will make fish farming not just sustainable, but economically unstoppable.