Salad days: Lisbon’s Springworks is booming on a diet of lettuce and fish

SUN JOURNAL • May 16, 2021

It may sound odd at first. There is little dirt to be found in either of the greenhouses. Instead, perhaps odder still, swimming nearby in the same greenhouses are nearly 50,000 fish. But after just seven years, the aquaponics operation run by a 26-year-old Bowdoin grad is the largest in New England and raises 1 million heads of lettuce yearly. And there's much more to come.