Colle Davis, the inventor of Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems, majored in the field of Renewable Natural Resources in 1972, at the University of California at Davis, and he’s been refining Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems for the past 38 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 sedimentS 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 pumps to grow healthier fish and vegetables. This new system made it possible to fully automate the system using all his own unique engineering, so that anyone, anywhere, could raise their own food. In May 2009, Colle Davis received a patent pending for his Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems.

Portable Farms, Inc. offers Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems for sale to be placed in institutional settings such as prisons, commercial growing greenhouses, schools, community, or for home use.

Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems have been through many, many iterations and improvements over the years, and Colle and his wife, Phyllis, moved their headquarters from Escondido, California, to San Diego, California on November 1, 2009. Year round. they enjoyed all the organic table vegetables, berries, tomatoes, and fish they could 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™ Aquaponics Systems (sizes: 10' x 12'', 10' x 20' and 20' x 30') they grew a total of 4,800 vegetables and 1,900 pounds of home-grown fish in one year.

Colle Davis is committed to teaching ways for becoming more self sufficient, creating a safe food source, reducing groundwater reduction impact, over-irrigation and discharge of pollutants attributable to in-ground farming.

With the growing concern for world hunger and poverty, Colle Davis' commitment has deepened regarding his lifelong goal of breaking the cycle of poverty and feeding the world. 12.6 percent of the world's population are literally starving to death from Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM). Even in the United States, there is a serious problem with hunger. According to Feeding America, ". . . for 1 in 8 Americans, hunger is a reality."

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."