Greenhouses

The Wealthy Are Buying Up Farms And Water Rights In Africa While The Locals Go Hungry

March 8, 2010 Farm/Garden Politics

I have commented before on posts related to this; the world grows enough food, it is the agri-biz industrial food distribution system, and the abject poverty around the world that is the cause of world hunger. Now the wealthy countries are buying up farm land and water rights in Africa and other parts of the [...]

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Newest Idaho Greenhouse Is State Of The Art

March 7, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

The recently completed greenhouse at the College of Southern Idaho is the most modern educational facility in the state of Idaho. It grows plants using hydroponics and aeroponics, soil less systems that grow the plants faster than in soil.

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Students Grow Veggies For School Cafeteria

March 1, 2010 Greenhouses

Tim O’Brien writes in The Times Union newspaper,
Some students at Sand Creek Middle School (near Albany, NY) want their classmates to eat their vegetables.
That’s because the lettuce, tomatoes and carrots are their vegetables, grown by the school’s Germinators’ Club. For the first time this year, the club’s produce will be added to the sandwiches and [...]

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Greenhouse Project Promotes Self-Sufficiency

February 28, 2010 Greenhouses

Rich Hewett writes in the Bangor Daily News,
A grass-roots project seeks to promote self-reliance and self-sufficiency by making low-cost greenhouses available to interested individuals and institutions.
The Greenhouse Project, sponsored by the United Methodist Church of South Brooksville through The Reversing Falls Sanctuary, already has built several small greenhouses in the area — including one at [...]

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Urban Oaks Organic Farm Offers Year Round CSA

February 26, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

While most farms take the winter off and suspend their CSA program, Urban Oaks Organic Farm in New Britain, Connecticut offers their CSA year round. With an acre under cover in six greenhouses, Urban Oaks has arugula, spinach, mustard greens, bok choi, rosemary, and bay leaf growing now. The farm stand is also open throughout [...]

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Students Cultivate Hydroponic Produce And Sell It

February 22, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Annie Martin writes in the Battle Creek Enquirer,
In the middle of the greenhouse, there’s a long bin of plants about 6 feet tall, with lush green foliage and bright red peppers the size of a fist.
Sue Smith puts her hand at mid-thigh to show the height of a typical soil-grown bell pepper. In this greenhouse, [...]

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Urban Farm Movement Takes Root In Akron

February 21, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Denise Ellsworth writes on the Beacon Journal’s Ohio.com,
Can urban farming save the modern city, or is the phrase an oxymoron? In many urban areas, the quest for fresh, local food and a desire to ”green” blighted, vacant properties have focused attention on urban agriculture options.
Urban residents are addressing the questions of where and how produce, [...]

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Learning Is Hands On At College Hort Program

February 20, 2010 Compost

Tim Holt writes on Redding.com,
The land stretches out in abundance: acres of clover and grains, woodlands and a small vineyard. A herd of cattle lazes next to a barn. Across the way two additional barns house sheep and pigs in the middle of their birthing seasons. Four greenhouses are nearby.
The 70-acre farm is on the [...]

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Massachusetts Farm “Wins” Green Grant Money

February 18, 2010 Environment

In doing this web site/blog I have come across numerous places farmers can apply for various grants for projects on their farms. Here is one example of a farm’s success in applying for a grant that finances alternative energy at Cider Hill Farm as Pamela Canning writes in The Amesbury News,
Cider Hill Farm is continuing [...]

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Aquaponics In The New York Times

February 18, 2010 Greenhouses

Whenever hydroponics or aquaponics gets  mentioned in an article in the mainstream media, it is a good thing. It changes the public’s perception that those horticultural techniques are only for growing illegal plants to understanding that they can be used to grow vegetables, herbs and flowers for everyday use both on a commercial farm scale [...]

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