


CLEARWATER, Fla., J/PRNewswire/ - Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Sundays through Wednesdays and until 8 p.m. Joe Handy brings over 15 years of leadership experience at the biggest aquarium in North America. The Farm to Turtle experience is scheduled by appointment, but the rest of the aquarium complex is open to the general public seven days a week, from 10 a.m. Map of US with pin of Clearwater Marine Aquarium location. It's an experience that teaches more about sea turtles and explains how members of the public can do their part to promote conservation and help protect the sea turtles in the wild. Clearwater Marine Aquarium needs your help today Click to donate. Then visitors get the opportunity to feed and interact with a few of the sea turtles, working alongside a marine biologist. Biologists like Jones showcase how the aquarium staff plant the vegetables, how the watering system works and how the food is harvested and prepared. What does it take to care for an orphaned dolphin or otter pup This program focuses on the younger rescued animals at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and. The Farm to Turtle program showcases the aquarium’s sustainable hydroponic farm, where it grows a lot of the food that goes to feeding and enriching its sea turtles.

So upon graduating, she came back to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium where she works with the sea turtles that call the aquarium home and helps to run one of their initiatives - Farm to Turtle. Growing up, she always had a love for animals, but it wasn't until she attended the University of Florida, where she studied wildlife ecology and conservation and went on to complete internships with the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, Zoo Tampa, and Florida Fish and Wildlife, that she knew her calling was with sea turtles. Exciting morning spent at Clearwater Marine Aquarium featuring their farm to turtle experience where they use hydroponics to grow food for their sea turtles on site! They took us through the entire process and you can to learn more about it next week on /e8yUOXNDMX
