From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Blast from the Past: Tank Farming with Malted Milk Mixer Motors in 1930’s Hydroponics

December 10, 2008 Hydro thoughts

A friend just sent me a link to an article in Popular Mechanics-1939 about Tank Farming (Scroll down to page 144), or the old-fashioned version hydroponic gardening where they used wooden tanks coated inside with hot petroleum tar or asphalt paint. In this system, the water was circulated with the motor of an old malted [...]

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The “Greenest” Market: Sky Vegetables Concept for Rooftop Gardens

December 9, 2008 In the News

A new venture is looking at creating sustainable urban gardens on top of supermarkets under the name: Sky Vegetables. If you click on that link, it pulls up an illustration of what they are proposing. The idea started out as an entrepreneurial challenge to students in the business school at the University of Wisconsin. Along with a big hydroponic [...]

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