The History of the Portable Farms™

Colle Davis, the inventor of the Portable Farm™, majored in the field of Renewable Natural Resources in 1972, at the University of California at Davis, and he’s been refining Portable Farms™ for the past 37 years. After a career as a successful entrepreneur, businessman and consultant, Colle made the time to continue his research to reduce the chronic problems of tank sediment and he discovered a new pumping system that solved all the clogging problems in the fish tank and made it possible for the system to automatically remove the sediments from the fish tank without clogging the pump to grow healthier fish and vegetables. This new system made it possible to fully automate the farm using all his own unique engineering, so that anyone, anywhere, could raise their own food.

Portable Farms™ LLC is now offering Portable Farms™ Kits for sale for home use, for families to become autonomous and self sufficient, or simply as an addition to the food they buy from local markets and grocery stores. Families can also grow enough fish and vegetables to sell for additional family income.

Portable Farms™ has been through many, many iterations and improvements over the years, and Colle and his wife, Phyllis, have three Portable Farms™ on their small two-acre farm near the Pacific Ocean, in Escondido, California. Year round. they enjoy all the organic table vegetables, berries, tomatoes, and fish they can possibly eat with enough surplus to feed 50 people daily vegetables and one serving of fish per week, per person, for an entire year.With their three Portable Farms™ (sizes: 6' x 8', 10' x 20' and 20' x 30') they grow a total of 5,100 vegetables and 1,650 pounds of home-grown fish in one year.

Portable Farms™ LLC is now offering Portable Farms™ Kits for sale for home use, for families to become autonomous and self sufficient, or simply as an addition to the food they buy from local markets and grocery stores. Families can also grow enough fish and vegetables to sell for additional family income.

Because of unsure economic markets in the US and globally, the Portable Farm™ is perfectly designed for back yard installations, community gardens, prisons, schools, churches, orphanages, missions, military installations, refugee camps, isolated villages, draught stricken areas, and areas recovering from natural disasters. The food can be eaten or sold to others. Even in his own part of the world, Southern California, Colle Davis is committed to teaching people to become more self sufficient and showing them how to feed themselves, and using the surplus from their efforts to provide extra income for themselves and their families.

With the growing concern for world hunger and poverty, Colle's commitment deepened to his lifelong goal of breaking the cycle of poverty and feeding the 12.6 percent of the world's population that are literally starving to death from Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM).

Colle Davis is quoted as saying, "Sometimes, all it takes is one simple idea that leads to other ideas and then on to other answers . . . it is in that collaboration that people will solve the problems of the world. But first, let's feed people and give them a livelihood instead of a handout. Than after that, let's do it again and again and again."

Come see the farm for yourself. Take a tour. Bring your family and your friends and have some lemonade and meet his wife, Phyllis, and their puppy, Dolly (after all, every farm needs a dog).