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News From Around the Net

Cash Crop--North Las Vegas Greenhouse Home to Hydroponic Beefsteak Tomatoes
Read an article on commercial hydroponics in Las Vegas from the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Science Summer Camp for Teachers
Read about a corporate-sponsored professional development program that helps teachers bring real-world science into their classrooms.

Buffalo's Tomato Supreme
The EPA Web site reports on how an abandoned industrial site was cleaned up and now sports a new hydroponic tomato greenhouse.

The Outdoor Hydro Report
Visit the North Florida Research & Education Center Web page to see how small northern Florida farmers are using plasticulture and hydroponic technologies to expand into viable commercial markets.

Farmer Grows Berries on Hydroponic Frontier
Visit the St. Petersburg Times Online Web page to read how blueberry farmer Bob Waldo is expanding into producing hydroponic strawberries.

Cafe at the Hydroponic Gardens
Bob Greene's Anguilla News reports on the new Hydroponic Cafe--an integrated greenhouse and restaurant--at the CuisinArt Resort and Spa on the Caribbean island of Anguilla.

Phytoremediation of Aquaculture Effluents
The Institute of Advanced Studies and The United Nations University Web page have posted an article (originally published in the Aquaponics Journal) on some scientific aspects of the integration of hydroponics and aquaculture.