Our story
Built by operators, not consultants.
ESA Organics started with a simple frustration: the indoor-farming industry kept selling equipment that didn't work at commercial scale, and the few farms that did work weren't sharing what they learned. We decided to do the whole loop in-house — design the hardware, run the farm that proves it, and put the same technology into classrooms so the next generation doesn't have to start from zero.
Mission
Make the regional food-system of the future actually buildable.
We integrate three things that the industry usually keeps apart: the hardware that grows the food, the operating discipline that makes that hardware profitable, and the educational pipeline that produces the people who will run it at scale. When all three live under one roof, the model compounds — and the economics finally work.
The three arms, narratively
One company, three jobs.
Ag Tech Manufacturing
Where the IP lives. We design and build the hardware — IAS1200 flagship, TS40/TS60 towers, GS6/GS8 germination, HGS series racks — and the automation software that runs them. Nothing we deploy is off-the-shelf.
Organic Aqua Fresh
Our commercial-scale aquaponic farm. It's both the revenue engine and the R&D laboratory — every operational lesson learned here feeds straight back into the manufacturing arm.
STEM Turnkey
Turn-key K-12 vertical-farming labs that drop the commercial technology directly into schools — funding workforce pipeline and building deep community trust.
From the founder
Yosvany “Alex” Acosta
Founder, President & CEO · ESA Organics, Inc. · Organic Aqua FreshMiami, Florida
Originally from Cuba, Alex immigrated to the United States in 1995 at age 23. His academic foundation came from the University of Matanzas — civil engineering, agronomy, and English — a multi-disciplinary blend that would later define his approach to sustainable agricultural engineering. He continued his studies at Miami Dade Community College in Computer Information and Science while serving as Manager of Operations at the Flagler Dog Track.
Over 25 years he built operating discipline across large-scale construction and infrastructure: 11 years as President of Paar Contractors directing statewide sales, operations, and project management across Florida, preceded by major infrastructure work at New Horizons Construction Group (2003–2008). Growing up on a farm, the connection to natural food systems never left him — and as headlines filled with pesticide crises, fertilizer runoff, and pathogen recalls, he applied his engineering background to the problem.
After backyard experimentation through 2019, he formally launched Organic Aqua Fresh on February 13, 2020, and engineered the proprietary Intelligent Aquaponics System (I.A.S.) — a data-driven platform delivering a full spectrum of organic micronutrients via biological filtration, paired with the TS40 / TS60 vertical aeroponic towers whose 39 GPM heavy-rain hydrodynamics force O₂ and CO₂ into the root zone — producing canopies up to 70% larger than the root mass and bringing a head of lettuce from seed to harvest in under 35 days, versus 48–52 in field farming. The system now yields up to 500 lbs of organic produce per square foot annually across 39 vegetable and herb varieties.
The Triple Bottom Line — People · Planet · Profit
- People
- Delivering pesticide-free, longer-shelf-life produce to communities — and building a workforce pipeline through K-12 STEM placements.
- Planet
- Closed-loop systems integrating waste-to-energy (anaerobic digesters that turn fish waste into methane power) and commercial solar arrays.
- Profit
- Scaling the Miami production facility (19425 SW 188th St) from 3,000 to 11,000 sq ft by Q4 2026, with a second Delray Beach facility under construction (operational Q1 2027) — built to deliver the supermarket produce aisle's highest-volume items at superior unit economics.
Open to connecting with AgTech professionals, renewable-energy advocates, and strategic partners working on the future of precision agriculture.