Hydroponics

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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Vertical Hydroponics In Florida

March 5, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Marcia Lane writes in The St. Augustine Record,
Along State Road 207 near the St. Johns County Fairgrounds, rows of white stacked pots cause drivers to slow down and take a second glance.
Since a “U-Pick-Em” sign went up, some of those drivers have been turning in to the Riverside Farms property.
As it turns out, those pots [...]

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AeroFarms—Crops Without Soil

March 5, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Aaron Munzer writes in The Ithaca Journal,
Ed Harwood wants to seed the cities of the future with thousands of indoor farms utilizing his new growing systems, based on the technology of aeroponics, which sprays a mist of nutrient-laden water on plant roots, instead of submerging them in water-like standard hydroponics.
Harwood’s company AeroFarms has engineered stackable, [...]

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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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Harvest Time Fills Niche With Produce Store, Hydroponic You-Pick Venture

February 26, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Roberta Sabban writes in the Palm Beach Daily News,
Palm Beach is the jewel in the crown of the largest of Florida’s 67 counties. Outside the urban areas in Palm Beach County, there are 468,000 acres of commercial agriculture. This represents 38 percent of the county’s land mass.
There are about 40 vegetable growers who, during the [...]

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Students Learn To Grow Without Soil

February 26, 2010 Hydroponics

Logan Salmons writes in the Arizona newspaper, Casa Grande Dispatch,
Soil’s popularity is eroding as hydroponic gardening blossoms among students.
Casa Grande Union High School’s agriculture program is embracing a modern technique of agriculture. Hydroponic gardening is the process of growing vegetation without the use of soil.
Instead, plants develop in one of four hydro methods. Steven Sipes’ [...]

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Basement Hydroponics System Sprouts A Winter Garden

February 26, 2010 Hydroponics

Edward M. Eveld writes in The Kansas City Star,
It’s spring in Dave Howe’s basement. Or maybe early summer.
He has already harvested a crop of romaine and buttercrunch lettuce, and his tomato plants are green, leafy and flowering. He recently started some strawberries.
Howe’s oasis at his home in Blue Springs, all the more notable during this [...]

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Pond Aquaponics: New Pathways To Sustainable Integrated Aquaculture And Agriculture

February 23, 2010 Aquaponics

Edoardo Pantanella, of the University of Tuscia, Italy, writes in Aquaculture News,
Rising environmental concerns and growing demand for different uses of production inputs set new challenges for aquaculture development. Increased productivity with reduced ecological impact, integration between production systems and reduced use of chemicals are just some of the leading principles that more sustainable fish [...]

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Hydroponic Window Farms In NYC Apartments

February 22, 2010 Environment

The ongoing buzz in various academia circles (architecture, design, landscape and agriculture) is all about vertical urban farms in and on the sides of urban buildings and skyscrapers.
But some creative folks are taking those large scale, high technological concepts, designing and dumbing them down into smaller scale systems and then building systems that can hang [...]

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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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