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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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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 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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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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Will Allen Of Growing Power

February 10, 2010 Aquaponics

Will Allen is the legendary founder of Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In this video he talks about poor communities in many urban centers lacking access to grocery stores and markets to buy healthy food. Allen is showing people how to grow their own food and become empowered.

PopTech 2009: Will Allen from PopTech on Vimeo.

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Growing Power Inspired—Sweet Water Organics

February 7, 2010 Aquaponics

James Godsil and business partner Josh Fraundorf founded Sweet Water Organics one year ago in a large, vacant industrial building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Inspired by fellow Milwaukee resident and Growing Power founder Will Allen, the two men are using an method of raising perch in tanks at ground level and feeding vegetables growing in well [...]

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Integrating Hydroponics Into The Agricultural Curriculum While Promoting Entrepreneurial Skills

February 5, 2010 Farming & Agriculture

Students at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute submit partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science with a report on a science project. WPI publishes the reports on their web site.
The goal of this project was to design and construct a hydroponic system for the Mahasarakham University Demonstration School in Thailand that [...]

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