From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Turn Urban Gardening Into Victory Gardens

February 28, 2009 sustainable gardening

In the gardening surveys I have seen this year, all of them report a double digit increase in people planning on growing a vegetable garden this year.

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Vertical Hydroponic Growing Produces More Crops in the Same Area of Space

February 28, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Growing crops in vertical containers enables Vertical Paradise Farm to produce more crops in the same amount of space as on the ground growers do.

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Recirculating Aquaponics System Raises Fish and Vegetables

February 28, 2009 Aquaponics

SoCal Aquaponics, located 60 miles east of Los Angeles, is a major producer of tilapia and barramundi fish and shrimp. The waste from the fish is circulated to the hydroponic systems growing vegetables which filters and “polishes” the water and is recirculated back to the fish tanks.

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Year Round Berry Production in The Greenhouse

February 28, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Practical Hydroponics & Greenhouses magazine reports growing berry fruit in the off-season is highly profitable. Mike Nichols looks at berry fruit production in Mexico and reports that it should be possible to produce blueberries, raspberries and blackberries in greenhouses year-round in Australasia, provided low chill varieties are used and that they are grown in an [...]

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Greenhouse Arrival Causes Problem in Small Yard

February 27, 2009 Garden Blog

When the greenhouse arrived, the backyard of this gardener was giving him a form of gardening claustrophobia; so with advice from a Chelsea gold medal winning designer, things became orderly again as seen in the picture above.
Photo credit: Lila Das Gupta/www.growingingreenhouses.com

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Cape Verde Hydroponics—Growing Food Without Soil

February 27, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

Less than 10 percent of the volcanic Cape Verde archipelago is cultivable and almost all of the country’s food is imported, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. A small group of agriculturalists say it is possible to boost food production and cut malnutrition in Cape Verde by farming with less water – and no soil.
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Growing Power—Raising Future Urban Farmers

February 26, 2009 Aquaponics

Will Allen started Growing Power in a rundown section of Milwaukee as a place where he could grow his dreams of healthy food for the urban poor.

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Miracle in Miniature Seeds Connect Us to Our Roots

February 26, 2009 Farming & Agriculture

By Al Cooper
In a world in which few things are certain, there is something reassuring in knowing that the garden seeds we sow this spring will, with appropriate care, reward us with the exact plant variety advertised on the package.
In fact, each of those seeds carries an indelible internal road map of its entire history. [...]

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New York City Rikers Island Teen Inmates Learn Hydroponic Gardening

February 25, 2009 Hydroponics

Cornell University Cooperative Extension (CUCE)-New York City extension associate Philson Warner for the past three years has been teaching teenage inmates at Rikers Island Prison in New York City hydroponic gardening.

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Garden Site of the Day: Grow Joyful—Learning Sustainable Organic Gardening

February 25, 2009 Garden Blog

Rachel’s blog is a personal journal of her gardening adventures. From the sounds of the postings, she is open to new organic ideas, and with her greenhouse gardens year round.

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